Hiking the Tetons. Next stop Yellowstone
This is one of those hikes that makes your day. Makes your vacation. Makes IMAX look like a postcard. Ten miles out and back. Six thousand feet up and down. 4,000 calories burned. A great full day.
Keep the tape measure. Toss the scale.
It's about your waist, not your weight. Your height-to-waist ratio is a much better indicator of your health than your height-to-weight ratio (BMI). Keep your waist circumference to less than half your height. Or you'll be at significantly higher risk for high blood pressure, diabetes, heart attacks and strokes.
Better Cheaper Stronger: Upper Back
Not strong like Arnold. Just stronger than you are now. So that you can do a lot of things more easily and comfortably. Today's "Reverse Fly" strengthens the back and shoulder muscles you use to prevent rounded shoulders. No machines or weights. You can do this with a resistance band.
Better Cheaper Stronger: Hamstrings
If you want to increase your leg strength before you start a jogging or running program, today's Leg Curl is a great Way. It'll strengthen your hamstrings before you ask them to go the extra mile out on the street. No weight machine necessary. Just a featherweight resistance tube.
Better Cheaper Stronger: Hips and Quads
If you want to increase your leg strength before you start a jogging or running program, today's Hip Flexion is a great Way. It'll strengthen your hip flexors and your quadriceps. Before you ask them to go the extra mile out on the street. No weight machine necessary. Just a featherweight resistance tube.
Jog. Live 6 years longer. Really.
This just in: Regular jogging shows dramatic increase in life expectancy. I thought you'd want to know. How regular? 1 or 2 hours per week. How fast? Slower. "Slow" or "moderate" paces produce the greatest increase in longevity.
Let’s Do Your Math. Advanced Class.
Actually, let's let a computer at the National Institutes of Health do the math for you. Plug in your age, weight, height and a few other things. Press Play. A second later, you have the answer: Slower. So what's the question?
The Walk That Ate Chocolate Brussels without sprouts
Brussels, Belgium just might be the best place in the world to enjoy all the health benefits of chocolate. More than 500 chocolatiers make this beautiful walking city a perfect place to burn more calories than you sample in a 10-mile Walk.