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Couch to 5K Week 13 tip: Adding speed to your run

May 15, 2016 6:41 am - By Nick Hurley Dick Pond Now that you have been training for more than 12 weeks, you may start to question how fast you should be running. Throughout the program, the go...
Try keeping up with this 65-year-old kickboxer

By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel The Washington Post
May 15, 2016 6:00 am - Stanley J. Holcomb, 65, wraps his hands and slips on his kickboxing gloves, flashing a smile and a warm welcome to the women trickling into his class at Fitness Evolutio...
Teens say they're addicted to technology: Here's how parents can help

By Amy Joyce The Washington Post
May 15, 2016 6:00 am - Half of of all teens say they feel addicted to their mobile devices. That's right, 50 percent of teens actually admitted that they feel addicted. Just imagine what the r...
Record numbers participate in At Work Challenge

By Rachel Yackley
May 15, 2016 6:00 am - In its fourth year, more teams participated than ever before in the 2016 Daily Herald's Fittest Loser At Work Challenge, as evidenced by the buoyant crowd at the Fittest...
Fittest Loser Tip of the Week: Preventing sick days

By Jill Micklow Assurance
May 15, 2016 5:11 am - When you're sick, you have to deal with visits to the doctor's office, bottles of medication and days in bed recovering. Wouldn't it be easier to just stay healthy in th...
Learn to do the dead lift for total body conditioning

By Trainer Talk
May 14, 2016 7:30 am - When it comes to getting the most value from a particular exercise, there aren't too many movements that can beat the dead lift. This total body exercise demands strengt...
Your health: We spend less than 1 percent of our time exercising

May 14, 2016 7:30 am - How do you spend your time? Despite the wide-ranging physical, mental and social benefits of physical activity, the average human will actually spend less than 1 pe...
Healthy habits can include alcohol

By Jae Berman Special to The Washington Post
May 14, 2016 7:22 am - Drinking alcohol is a habit that sneaks into people's lives and can have a huge impact on health. It's a big culprit when it comes to weight gain, and difficulty in los...
Drugstore reading glasses can't solve every vision problem

By Dr. Anthony Komaroff
May 14, 2016 6:00 am - Q: My vision has been getting worse, and I definitely need reading glasses. Is there any reason not to get the inexpensive ones sold at the drugstore? A If you're over 4...
Fitness star Tracy Anderson: Stop aspiring to a celeb body

By Kelli Kennedy Associated Press
May 13, 2016 6:00 am - MIAMI - She's sculpted the bodies of Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Lopez and runs a multimillion-dollar fitness empire with 218,000 Instagram followers, but Tracy Anderso...

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