According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, you should exercise for 30 minutes a day, five days a week.  It sounds simple, doesn't it?  However, there are many excuses:

• I don't have time.
• I'm too tired.
• My life is too stressful already.
• I don't have the correct equipment.
• I don't have time to go to the gym.

I'm sure there are more, but these are some of the most common that I've heard.  As with anything in life, we can make excuses and avoid things, or we can analyze our excuses and take action.  So. . .let's analyze! 1. I don't have time. No, you probably...

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You probably have seen the commercials or the newspaper advertisements for those funny looking Sketchers. With their clumsy and clunky appearance I could have guessed that the shoe I saw in the ad belonged to Sketchers, but what they have done now is even funkier than any shoe they have ever produced. They are called Shape Ups. If you have not heard of them before, they are shoes that are designed to promote weight loss, improve posture, tone muscles, and reduce the stress that is on your knees and ankles. They are really some kind of a shoe—they look like your...

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Some people are walkers, some people are joggers, and some people are runners. Others, well, they are speed walkers. I do not know if you have ever seen a person speed walking. I remember the first time I saw a speed walker was on Malcolm in The Middle when Hal was training to be a speed walker. Seeing a speed walker is still a rare occasion for me, but I do know that it is popular amongst some people. There was even a lady (whose daughter ran track at a different high than me but during the same years) from New...

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Sitting in volleyball or track practice, I cringe when I hear the word being spoken, "Hills." A dreaded word. On a run, on a bike ride, hills are menacing; they are threatening. They loom in front of me, and only seem to grow as I get closer. Yet, as inherently evil as they may seem, there is a reason my coaches include hills in our training: hills are a valuable tool to include in one's exercise in order to improve one's overall performance. Why to Run Hills: After adding hills to your routine you should soon find yourself feeling stronger, quicker, and...

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This weekend I took the time to travel back to New Hampshire with some of my fellow co-workers. We are all Orientation Leaders, so we are energetic people who are not afraid to break out random icebreakers or play name games wherever we go. I was lucky enough to have parents who wanted to house these other orientation leaders for the weekend. On Saturday I drove a minivan worth of people to Rumney, New Hampshire. There I met up with my friend who is an insane rock climber. She has won so many competitions and has been first in the nation,...

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