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Fitness Friday Video: How to Treat Shin Splints

March 30, 2012

You don’t have to be a serious runner to experience shin splints or other chronic lower-leg injuries, such as plantar fasciitis. Any exercise that requires a heel-to-toe movement, such as hiking or walking (these are popular activities at Green Mountain), can overwork the anterior tibialis and leave you with nagging shin pain. Other common causes [...]

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Foodie Friday Video: A Green Smoothie Recipe for St. Patrick’s Day

March 16, 2012

Craving a Shamrock Shake for St. Patrick’s Day, but with a few more nutrients? Try this Green Mountain green smoothie recipe from Robyn Priebe, our dietitian and healthy recipe guru: 2 packed cups baby spinach 1 orange, peeled ½  cup chopped pineapple ½ cup green grapes 1 tablespoon of lime juice Ice cold water, as [...]

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Fitness Friday Video: The Do’s and Don’ts of Treating Plantar Fasciitis

March 9, 2012

It happened to me during my fourth week as a participant at Green Mountain. The sudden increase in activity through Green Mountain’s fitness classes — including aerobics and hill climbing after being relatively sedentary for years — caused my right foot to surrender to plantar fasciitis. A frustrating and often chronic condition of the heel, [...]

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Fitness Friday Video: The Right Way to Breathe During Exercise

March 2, 2012

Does this happen to you, too? During strength training classes, when the instructor tells the class to inhale, I find myself exhaling and vice versa. I knew that there had to be a trick to remembering how to breathe properly during exercise, so I asked Green Mountain at Fox Run senior fitness specialist LynnAnn Covell [...]

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How I Stopped Using Exercise as Another Diet

March 1, 2012

As a follow-up to last week’s FitBriefing about using exercise as just another diet, Green Mountain alum Jill C discusses how she was able to stop using exercise as a means to burn calories and start using it as a way of living better in her body. As a result, she has reaped more benefits [...]

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We Stand Against Weight Bullying

February 21, 2012

We’ve been meaning to share this picture for a while now. Green Mountain at Fox Run supports the “I Stand Against Weight Bullying” campaign, a response started by Marilyn Wann of Fat!So? to Georgia’s misguided and harmful Strong4Life campaign against childhood obesity. Take a look at the powerful messages others stand for in stopping weight [...]

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Fitness Friday Video: Am I Drinking Enough Water?

February 17, 2012

What do all of these symptoms below have in common? Memory issues Bad breath Muscle weakness Fatigue Low back pain Headache The answer is they can all be caused by not drinking enough water. Proper hydration, especially if you’re starting a new exercise program, cannot be emphasized enough. Drinking fluids helps optimize your workouts, which [...]

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Foodie Friday Video: Preparing Healthy Balanced Meals

February 10, 2012

You made it a New Year’s Resolution again this year: Eat more balanced meals. If it’s not working out as you planned, you may want to look at your strategy. Green Mountain registered dietitian Robyn Priebe walks us through one of her favorite tips for preparing healthy meals if you are stretched for time: batch [...]

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Fitness Friday Video: Relieving Tension in Your Neck and Shoulders

February 3, 2012

Friday is finally here, but chances are good that the cumulative stress from the work week has settled into your neck and shoulders. If you feel tight from sitting in the car and hunching over your keyboard, we have a few stretches you can do to relieve that tension quickly. Yes, getting a massage or [...]

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Fitness Friday Video: How Do I Stretch This Muscle?

January 27, 2012

Why is it that I can barely remember how to stretch my muscles when I’m doing strength training on my own? I would bet that I’m not alone here; stretching seems to be something we want to hurry through or just skip all together if no one is watching. And it’s not just that we [...]

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