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Memorial Day is the unofficial first day of summer (a.k.a. the great unveiling), and for most people to feel good at the pool or the beach they usually need to drop a few (or more) pounds of body fat.
Are you discouraged by your results in your favorite sport? Have you wondered why you can't seem to improve, no matter how hard you train? If so, the answer may be found in the way you position yourself. Literally.
Amanda Alarcon Banks likes to spend her afternoons crawling on her stomach trying to avoid touching dangling wires carrying live electrical current.
Long before there was Pinterest and Google Plus, I loved a good exercise quote splashed onto a workout themed image.
Pikes Peak is much more than a 14,115-foot heap of uplifted granite.
Last spring, I was cruising the Foothills on my full-suspension mountain bike with 26-inch wheels. Like a lot of mountain bikers, I was curious about mountain bikes with super-sized wheels.
Irrational, I know, but it bummed me out, in a breaking-the-spell sort of way, when two tour buses pulled up at the recently remodeled Lands End Lookout visitors center and dumped off a gaggle of slumping, weary tourists.
Most people think that the key to taking off the weight (fat) and keeping off the fat (or staying in shape) is just willpower and self-discipline.
You're ready to ride. Then you see it - your bike has a flat tire. As always. As it does very single year!
Beth Schub started surfing with one of her uncles on Long Island when she was 13, but she went off to college in Pennsylvania and later settled there after getting married, she thought she was pretty much done with the sport.
Five-time Olympic swimmer Dara Torres is on tour to promote new Koss earbuds for fitness-minded, active women. She joined a spin class at Elite Sports Club in Mequon, Wis.
Deep in the desert, searching for enlightenment at a spot called Samuelson's Rocks that is unmarked on any map, all I find are shaggy, gnarled trees that give this area its name, bulbous monzogranite rock formations and the triad of cholla, creosote and prickly pear that scar my legs and test my resolve.
Into the overstuffed outdoors energy-bar market comes a new entrant � YaffBars.
To most of the world, pyramids are synonymous with ancient Egypt, but to fitness buffs it's the favored form of resistance training.
There are many bad things you can do for your tent, and storing it wet is one of the worst.
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