With the weather being hot, you might not want to get even warmer working out.  Here's a great way to stay cool and keep fit. ....

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The idea of staying in good shape or losing weight is just not always a good enough reason to get a person motivated to exercise. What if you added another reason, the responsibility to keep your pets healthy and happy as well? In today's society there is no doubt that many pets are given much less attention than they should be receiving. Instead of taking their dogs on walks, some owners try to build bonds by giving the dogs extras snacks or bones. If a dog is being fed snacks, you can bet its owner is doing the same. A...

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There are many aspects about school that make me excited to come back to Northeastern; however, I am really pumped to come back to play intramural sports. Intramural sports are not too competitive. While varsity sports and club sports are the types of activities that are played against other colleges, intramurals are sports in which the games are played amongst people in the college. Intramurals are more recreational than they are competitive. There are, of course, people who get really into the games, but in general, they are just played for fun. Last year I played volleyball during both the fall...

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When people talk about what athletes should eat and drink, some of the popular words that come up are protein, carbohydrates, potassium, iron, and calcium. They talk about taking extra supplements to get faster, stronger, and overall better performance. In reality, there should only be one difference between the diet of an athlete and non-athlete. Can you guess what it is? Amount. That's it. "So taking vitamin and mineral supplements won't do anything for me?" Well, that depends. Currently, there is no evidence that taking extra vitamins will improve performance. However, many athletes and non-athletes alike simple do not get enough nutrients...

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My sister has  a stress fracture in her tibia and her femur.  She spent all of last summer with a stress fracture in her foot. This injure forced her to pool run. She would run anywhere from thirty minutes to one and a half hours. There were times when I would join her, but to run in the pool for that long kind of got boring at times. I do not know how that girl did what she did. She was and is dedicated to the sport of running, and it killed her last summer when she found out that...

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