Archive for January, 2010

FitFlops at Fitness Footwear: Meeting New Year Resolutions

FitFlop, manufacturer of the best selling FitFlops fitness sandals have launched their 2010 Spring/Summer collection, bringing a dazzling array of new colours and exciting new styles to Fitness Footwear in to meet the second surge in New Year resolution fulfillment.
(PRWEB) January 31, 2010 — Over 4 million FitFlops have been sold since [...]

Hart to Heart: Here's how to save Savannah's children

We read about teens involved in crime or about the obesity problem among local youths and think: “Something needs to be done to save our kids.”
Former competitive weightlifter Kerri Goodrich isn’t just thinking about it.
She’s doing something.
Inside a gym that was once boarded up and empty, Kerri and a team of trained and certified volunteers [...]

Kettlebell Swings Interval and Bodyweight Training | At Home …

Kettlebells swings is one of the most basic Kettlebell movements that you can learn. this movement will help you master all the other Kettlebell exercises available to you.

This is because most Kettlebell exercises require the basic hip thrust that you learn by mastering the Kettlebell Swing. Here’s how to perform the movement:

You can do this [...]

I have hit a wall as far as my weight loss goes. I am a 38 year …

You’ve hit the wall. Common in weight loss. your body has become accustomed to your routine. you need to eat 5 meals a day, 500 cal per meal, approx 2500 cal in combination with the following. you need to start running intervals (alternate sprinting and jogging…or slow jog and running. 2 min fast pace and [...]

Plan comes together for Sean Payton, New Orleans Saints

By Nakia Hogan, the Times-PicayuneJanuary 30, 2010, 10:00PM
One day during just another ordinary offseason workout last spring, New Orleans Saints Coach Sean Payton looked at all of the personnel that he had helped assemble, and it hit him.
Michael DeMocker/The Times-PicayuneBefore the season started, Coach Sean Payton believed if things went the way he envisioned, something [...]

Boggles my mind!!! Any theories on causes? – ControlBooth

okay at my church this weekend we had a pretty decent sized men’s conference. 5,000 in attendance. Rented a few movers and LEDs to make it a little flashy. Get this situation…
My house uses an ETC Emphasis system with Unison (I know, I know Emphasis…blah). so we have 4 universes coming out. Universe 1 [...]

Weightlifters Kamal and Chinthana clinch gold medals

Weightlifters Kamal and Chinthana clinch gold medals
Sri Lankan weightlifters Kamal Bandara and Chinthana Vidanage won gold medals at the Weightlifting Competition of the 11th South Asian Games held at the National Sports Council gymnasium here in Dhaka.
Twenty-three-year-old Kamal Bandara from Air Force was the first competitor to win a gold medal for Sri [...]

Community news

The Buccaneers Jr. Drum and Bugle Corps, a program of the Bridgeport Police Activities League, is accepting applications. Membership is open both to accomplished and novice musicians. the corps performs in parades and exhibitions throughout the state. Membership is open to ages 10 to 21 from all surrounding towns. There are openings in all sections: [...]

Can intervention prevent adult obesity for overweight teens?

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In street clothes — roomy pink sweats or skimpy tank tops revealing broad, brown swimmers’ shoulders — the teen blends in with her friends, a fresh-faced, robust-looking All-American girl.
Like nearly one-third of American teens, Paris Woods is overweight. Her doctor worries her weight will creep up into the obesity [...]

Mind aerobics: 'You have to keep your brain in tune with your body'

Every Thursday at 3 p.m., 10 to 15 of the Oaks residents get together in their recreation room to practice “Mind Aerobics.” What is that?
It’s exercising your brain for things you can’t remember, a quote you heard on TV, the time you’re due at a meeting and so forth.
“It stretches your creative thinking,” Linda Biswell, [...]