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Fitness

Too Fat For Yoga? Think Again!

May 10, 2012

There are more resources than ever about yoga for plus-size women. Green Mountain at Fox Run interviews Anna Guest-Jelley, founder of Curvy Yoga, about why it’s great for every shape, size and ability. Namaste! Anna, why did you start practicing yoga? I think some kind of bodily discomfort (pain, injury, inflexibility, etc.) brings many people [...]

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Start Exercising Outdoors with these Online Resources

May 7, 2012

Here at Green Mountain, we encourage intrinsic exercise, being active because it is something you want to do, not something you should do. Both of our fitness interns, Shannon and Lindsey, are Georgia natives and are psyched for the warmer weather. Not surprisingly, they find it a lot more enjoyable to exercise outdoors when the [...]

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Fitness Friday Video: Should I Use Ice or Heat?

April 6, 2012

The fitness team at Green Mountain hears this question a lot: How do I know when to ice or heat an injury? Whether you’re treating shin splints, trying to alleviate plantar fasciitis pain, or nursing other common injuries that affect your exercise routine, using ice and heat properly can make a big difference in getting [...]

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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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Moving without Exercising

March 28, 2012

This past weekend I spent at least 5 hours in my garden shoveling and raking.  I would have kept going since I love it so much, but at a certain point in the evening you’ve just got to go inside.  I was rewarded with sore muscles all over my ribs, one of those areas were [...]

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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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When Exercise Is Just Another Diet

February 23, 2012

Do you remember the last time you woke up determined to go for a walk, head to the gym, or do some sort of physical activity in order to burn calories and lose weight, but didn’t make it out of bed until it was too late to do anything? What’s that you say?  That describes [...]

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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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