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		<title>Muscle Diagram</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 01:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, it&#8217;s helpful to know what you are trying to accomplish when you work out.  How many of us just go through the motions, doing the same or similar workout time after time.  One thing worth doing is taking a look at a muscle diagram to get a clear idea of what muscles you are trying to develop with each exercise.]]></description>
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		<title>More Bone &#8211; Less Cardio</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a report in Journal of Internal Medicine, Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine found that some activity may be better than none at all for certain areas of your health like heart health, but milder forms of activity may not be sufficient to hold off or attenuate age-related decline in bone. So, fighting bone loss or decline is yet another reason to engage in more intense shorter duration workouts as advocated by Dr. Al Sears in his PACE program.]]></description>
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		<title>Exercise and Your Mouth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I Dig Fitness</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back when I was running with the triathloning crowd, I had buddies who thought that all the training (running, cycling and swimming) they did gave them a free pass to the local buffet. They believed that they could, after their workouts, eat with immunity and with total disregard for their caloric intake. At the same time, they never could figure out why they weren&#8217;t losing those last few pounds they needed to shed to improve their performance. I&#8217;ve said it before, &#8220;You can&#8217;t out exercise your mouth!&#8221; You can take in calories much quicker than you can burn them off. As a rough example: one medium chocolate chip cookie contains over 100 calories. It takes about 3 &#8211; 5 seconds to eat. Running at an average pace, one burns approximately 100 calories per mile. For a respectable weekend runner, that takes 6 &#8211; 8 minutes. Do you get the picture? If you go out and run 6 miles, you&#8217;ve burned roughly 600 calories. A large hamburger (dressed), large fries and large coke weigh in at over 1,300 calories. The take-away message is that you can never outrun your mouth. Given free reign, it will eat more calories than you can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Workout When I Feel Good, Or. . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I Dig Fitness</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read a study done by researchers at Bowling Green University. In a nutshell, they took some obese people and followed their exercise patterns by logging whether they reported being in a good or bad mood in the morning. They found that people were more likely to exercise on days on which they reported being in a good mood in the morning. I don&#8217;t doubt that is true. However, my experience shows that you can convert that &#8220;bad mood&#8221; into a &#8220;good mood&#8221; if you discipline yourself into exercising on the bad mood days. Doesn&#8217;t that seem more beneficial? If you&#8217;re about to start a day with a bad mood, more often than not you can change your &#8220;destiny&#8221; for that day by exercising. A morning workout can work wonders on altering your mood for the better. So, when you see you are about to enter a day in a bad mood, get some exercise. You (and those around you) will be glad you did.]]></description>
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		<title>Funny Thing About Habits</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I Dig Fitness</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about habits.  We humans certainly are &#8220;creatures of habit.&#8221;  That&#8217;s not just a worn out phrase, it is a basic, cosmic truth.  Think about it in your own life &#8211; don&#8217;t just take my word for it. Take a few minutes and examine your typical day.  Wouldn&#8217;t it be fair to say that most of it operates at the habit level?  Aren&#8217;t most of these things habitual for you and the rest of the human population: What time you get up. Whether you take your shower in the morning or evening. Whether you shave or brush your teeth first. Which shoe you put on first. The foods that you consume regularly. The route you drive to work. The people you associate with. The music you listen to. The TV shows you watch. The restaurants you frequent. The clothes you wear. The time you go to bed. OK, you get the point, but what does it have to do with fitness.  I read a quote somewhere that goes like this: First you make your habits, then your habits make you. It seems to me that this is ever so true.  Unfortunately, for most of us, our habits were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You Dig It, You&#8217;ll Do It</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I Dig Fitness</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know how many different ways there are to say it, but fitness should be fun. Just to prime your pump, here&#8217;s an example. This post is being done from the Denver airport after two days of hiking in the Rocky Mountains National Park. I wasn&#8217;t slogging along on a treadmill watching the timer to see how much longer I needed to go. I wasn&#8217;t trying to &#8220;get fit.&#8221; I wasn&#8217;t worried about &#8220;getting my workout in.&#8221; But guess what. Without even thinking about it, i got in about ten hours of cardio in two days while at the same time having two of the most exhilarating days of my life in some of the most magnificent natural surroundings on the planet. Beats a health club every time. Granted, we can&#8217;t do our workouts under these conditions every day, but the point is, fitness should be fun. Find a way to make that true for you, and you won&#8217;t have to worry about getting fit any more. You won&#8217;t have to try every new fad diet that comes out. You won&#8217;t have to buy every new &#8220;Revolutionary Workout&#8221; book that hits the bookstores. You&#8217;ll be fit &#8211; and you&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cardio Re-Examined</title>
		<link>http://www.idigfitness.com/96/cardio-re-examined/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 03:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I Dig Fitness</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your Cardio Workouts may not be helping you unless you incorporate a high range of heart rate shifts in your training This is a guest article provided by Mike Geary, Certified Personal Trainer and Certified Nutrition Specialist Are you a cardio junkie? Everyone seems to think that &#8220;cardio&#8221; is the best way to get in shape and lose body fat. I&#8217;m going to show you with this article why I disagree! It is quite common to hear fitness pros, doctors, and other health professionals prescribe low to moderate intensity aerobic training (cardio) to people who are trying to prevent heart disease or lose weight. Most often, the recommendations go something like this: &#8220;Perform 30-60 minutes of steady pace cardio 3-5 times/week maintaining your heart rate at a moderate level&#8221; Before you just give in to this popular belief and become the “hamster on the wheel” doing endless hours of boring cardio exercise, I’d like you to consider some recent scientific research that indicates that steady pace endurance cardio work may not be all it’s cracked up to be. First, realize that our bodies are designed to perform physical activity in bursts of exertion followed by recovery, or stop-and-go movement instead [...]]]></description>
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