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Healthy Living: Workout Heart Rate Zones

The benefits of regularly working out are legion, from improved cardiovascular endurance and weight loss to strengthening and toning. But not all types of workouts will yield the same results. You need to start and stay moving, often vigorously, to … Continue reading

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Healthy Living: Vigorous Exercise When Sick

 Limit intense and vigorous training when you’re feeling under the weather, recommends the American Council on Exercise, since not giving your body enough time to rest and heal may leave you sicker longer. But that doesn’t mean you should prescribe … Continue reading

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Healthy Living: Online Yoga Teaching

You’d like to try yoga, but you can’t find a nearby class, or you only can practice early in the morning or late at night when all of the studios or closed, or you’re afraid of embarrassing yourself and would … Continue reading

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Healthy Living: Cardiovascular Hot Yoga

 By taking a hot yoga, or Bikram yoga, class, you’re signing up to work in a room heated to around 105 degrees Fahrenheit and set at around 40 percent relative humidity. And that’s before you stretch, move or access any … Continue reading

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Healthy Living: Calf Soreness Stretches

 Two muscles make up each of your calves — the gastrocnemius muscle, which is the big muscle at the back of your lower leg, and the soleus muscle, which is a smaller muscle located farther down your leg beneath your … Continue reading

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Healthy Living: Are Hips Strengthened by Bikram Yoga?

With temperatures hovering around 105 degrees Fahrenheit and at least 40 percent relative humidity, the extremes of Bikram yoga will warm your muscles and help improve your flexibility; flush toxins from your body, build endurance, burn calories and strengthen the parts … Continue reading

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Sprawling narratives of relapse and recovery

I have spent nearly two weeks inside Wild, Cheryl Strayed’s sprawling memoir of hiking the Pacific Coast Trail in California and Oregon. She went alone, though along the way met and befriended several other hikers and passersby. The trail was … Continue reading

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