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Fitness through the decades…
December 17, 2007, 3:40 pm
Filed under: 19-39, 30-45, 45-60, barriers, body image, lifestyle, motivation, prevention

If there’s a magic pill for staying youthful, it may be one that’s hard to swallow: exercise. Daily doses have been proven to thwart a number of aging factors — stress, obesity, heart disease, diabetes — and the longer you’re physically active, the less you’ll notice getting older.

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Weight training is good at any age.

The catch is that a 50-year-old’s body is not the same as a 20-year-old’s; you can’t push it the same way you once did, nor should you if you want to keep it in working-out order.

So listen to these coaches — they’re talking not just professionally but also firsthand — on how to remain fit, and proud of it, through the decades.

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Teen Girls report…
December 17, 2007, 3:13 pm
Filed under: 14-18, barriers, body image, cultural, gender, lifestyle, motivation, movement, overcoming, personal

Teen Girls Report Barriers To Physical Activity

05 Apr 2006

Teenage girls perceive lack of time as the number one barrier to physical activity, according to a new study published in the March issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise�, the official journal of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). The three-year survey assessing black and white adolescent girls reveals sedentary habits are mostly linked to internal barriers (interest, motivation), which were unrelated to external factors (jobs, recreation).

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