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Family Fitness Tips

Family fitness helps the family bond while you promote a healthy lifestyle with your kids. The benefits of staying physically fit include reduced risk for disease, a more positive outlook on life, better sleeping and weight control. You don’t need to drag the family to the gym or make the kids do hundreds of jumping jacks to stay fit. Entertaining and physically active family time works just as well to increase fitness.

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Dick’s Sporting Goods Recalls Fitness Resistance Tubes Due to Contusion and Laceration Hazards

Dick’s Sporting Goods is recalling about 229,000 Resistance Tubes and Resistance Tube Kits because the plastic clip that attaches the resistance tube to the handle can break during use causing the tubing, handle, or fragments of the plastic clip to strike the user. This poses a contusion and laceration hazard. Dick’s Sporting Goods has received four reports of contusions, abrasions and lacerations.

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How to Create a Personal Fitness Plan

Personal fitness involves more than looking good in a bathing suit. It has to do with improving your overall health and improving your life. For some people, it might mean making time to incorporate daily exercise. For others, it might be reducing cholesterol by changing food choices. Creating a personal fitness plan can help to achieve these important goals. Follow these steps.

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Ab Exercises After Pregnancy

Women who have gone through a pregnancy often have the same or similar experiences. After giving birth they are not only heavier but their bodies are not of the same shape and size as they were before they were pregnant. Pregnancy and childbirth can be traumatic. A woman’s abdominal muscles will be both stretched and weakened after giving birth, and her body will not automatically restore itself to its original condition. However, a woman can tighten these muscles and slim down the abdominal area with proper exercise.*