Cross-Country Skiing
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Cross-Country Skiing

Cross-Country Skiing For Your Health Cross-country skiing has lagged behind the downhill variety in popularity in the United States, but in terms of all-around aerobic benefits, it’s the front runner. Using muscles in the shoulders, back, chest, abdomen, buttocks, and legs, cross-country skiers can burn as many as six hundred to nine hundred calories per…

Keeping the Beat
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Keeping the Beat

Get Your Move On Fitness experts have found that listening to upbeat music while exercising will help you get more from your workout. Particularly for aerobic workouts, music is a powerful motivator. Perhaps the most common use for music is as a diversion to take your mind off the fact that you’re exercising. The music…

Aerobic Exercises

Aerobic Exercises

Overall Health The key to successful weight control and improved overall health is making physical activity a part of your daily routine. Any type of physical activity you choose to do–strenuous activities such as running or aerobic dancing or moderate-intensity activities such as walking or household work–will increase the number of calories your body uses….

Benefits of Aerobics

Benefits of Aerobics

Aerobics in our Daily Lives We’ve all been told about the importance of aerobics in our daily lives. But what constitutes an activity as an aerobic one and how do we integrate it into our all ready busy lives? Why we need Aerobics? Without a doubt, aerobics are particularly helpful for weight control. Research consistently…

Snowshoeing
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Snowshoeing

Why Snowshoeing Snowshoeing is a great exercise because it provides a full-body workout that engages multiple muscle groups, including the legs, core, and upper body. It takes more effort than just walking because you have a frame covered with webbing or fabric that helps to distribute your weight over a larger area. Snowshoeing also burns…

Swimming
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Swimming

Swimming for your health For years, experts have been saying that swimming is great for your health and simply one of the best exercises out there. Yet, many of the benefits of swimming are unclear to the average person. So what really makes swimming such a wonderful exercise? Swimming uses almost all the major muscle…

Jumping Rope
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Jumping Rope

Jump For Your Health – Jumping Rope is a great aerobic exercise. Jumping rope is an exercise we tend to overlook as adults. The thought of jump roping usually conjures memories of our childhoods, usually either in the form of fond recollections of grade school playgrounds or shuddering vignettes of endless rope skipping in gym…