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Why Is My Lower Body in Pain After Running & Walking?
Dear K and A: How come I can run 10 miles Saturday morning with no soreness, but slowly walking 8 miles leaves my entire lower body in pain? Sunday I rested. Monday I did a 5 mile easy run that felt...
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How to Improve Your Brain Today
Lifting My Brain Power and Spirits Move Your Body to Improve Your Cognition Scared you’ll lose your memory, mental acuity, or brain function as you age? Have you watched an older loved one’s mental...
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Best Workouts to Burn Fat For Women Over 50
Be Low Fat or Burn Fat? Secret to Fat Burning: Run Up Hill. Let Rain Rinse off Fat Sweat. Walk Down Hill. Have a Beer. No, Don’t. Water Bottle is Best. Do you have a goal to be lower fat? Did you know...
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Carmel-by-the-Sea Might Be Cooler than the Beach Town Where I Grew Up
I went back home this past weekend to a town I’d never actually visited. In other words, I went to a place that took me back to my childhood. It so happens that Carmel-by-the-Sea is similar to my...
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Walk to Lose Weight, Gain Fitness and Happiness
Free and Easy (and I’m not Describing My Sister) Looking for an easy, no cost, comfortable way to add more activity into your day? Walk — outdoors, at a local mall, indoors on cardio equipment, down...
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How Do You Relax?
Do you think relaxing is part of a healthy, active life? For some, relaxing is the opposite of activity. For others, it’s congruent with it. Maybe it just depends on how you define “relax.” I know many...
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10 Reasons to Chillax at the Hyatt Palm Springs
The Hyatt Palm Springs invited me and a guest to come stay with them for a few nights to experience their “Chill” packages. I’m a pretty smart person, so I said yes and invited my older son. It can...
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Use Weights While Walking: Yes or No?
Can the subject of walking with hand or ankle weights be humorous and informative? In looking back at old posts, we discovered some gems that are begging to see the light of day again and still au...
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What is Active Aging?
I was asked what active aging means a few days ago. It was a great question, though it took me by surprise, as I had made the erroneous assumption that everyone knew what I meant. Assuming didn’t work...
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How Do I Prevent Calf Soreness After Walking Hills?
My Calves Are Stiff Dear K and A: I know you’ll probably faint, but having exercised for 1.5 hours TWO DAYS IN A ROW, I have a legitimate workout question. Yesterday and today a friend and I did a...
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Stretching: Before or After Walking, Running, Hiking, Fighting?
Dear K and A: Is stretching better before or after doing cardio exercise, such as a hike, walk, or run? We believe that the couple who hikes together, stays together. This morning on a lovely hike, we...
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A 10K Walk is as Far as a 10K Run
What if you could participate in a running race by not running and not racing? Could such a thing be possible? When you hear about 5K, 10K and marathon races, you immediately think it’s a running race,...
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The Perfect Getaway: The Oaks Spa in Ojai
Do you ever have the desire to go to a place where you can do nothing at all except relax, or perhaps do something active and enjoyable all day long? If you’re in California (or headed there), you may...
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Which is the “Best” Cardio Workout: Walking? Running? Machines?
Which is a better cardio workout: stationary bike, treadmill, elliptical, rowing machine? Tina, Lubbock, Texas I heard walking is much better for you than running, especially for women over 50. Is...
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How Do I Lose Weight But Not Bulk Up?
No Hulk! No Bulk! Dear Fun and Fit: K and A–I want to lose weight, not bulk up and build muscle. I’ve recently joined a gym and started doing 40 minutes on the elliptical and walking five miles on the...
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To Burn Fat, Do I Go Faster or Slower?
Go Faster! Go Slower! Oh, Just Go! Burn a (Relative) Myth to Burn More (Absolute) Calories Dear Kymberly and Alexandra: What is the appropriate intensity or heart rate for a 56 year old woman who wants...
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Covell’s Clydesdales: A hidden gem in Central California on Highway 1
Want to know about a hidden gem in Central California that is walking distance from downtown Cambria? You are probably already thinking “yes,” and once you read about it and see the pictures, you’ll be...
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3 Biggest Treadmill and Stairclimber Mistakes [video]
Alexandra gets Lost in Translation Do you hop on the stairclimber or treadmill to get a good workout for your wrist, neck, or spine? Do you have a goal to put all the load into your joints as you lean...
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Healthy Heart: Improve Your Circulation and Flexibility
You probably have a heart, but is it a strong one? Do you also have great circulation and flexible arteries? Bonnie Raitt was right when she sang Have a Heart. Hard to make that sound sexy and...
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Exercise, Nutrition, and Brain Games Make Your Dog Smarter. You Too!
We just know there’s a giveaway prize from Dognition somewhere near. Do Smart People Have Smart Dogs? Who wouldn’t mind an easy way to increase your health and fitness levels, reduce stress, AND...
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