Outdoor Exercise

Let Us Now Praise Rake and Broom

Debra Shore | Posted 01.01.2012 | Chicago

Read More: Sandhill Cranes, Raking Leaves, Fall, Fitness and Exercise, Outdoor Exercise, Outdoors, Exercise, Chicago News

I like raking because it gets me outside. I exercise my muscles. I marvel at tufts of rabbit parts half-hidden at the base of a bur oak. (Oooo, wild nature, right here in my yard!)

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Working Out Shouldn't Be About Getting A 'Perfect Body'

Mina Samuels | Posted 10.18.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Why Workout, Body Image, Exercise, Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle, Excellence, Carl Jung, Reasons to Workout, Outdoor Exercise, Great Workouts, Motivational-Success, Dylan Thomas, Perfection, Healthy Living News

As Eckhart Tolle recommends in "Power Of Now," scan your physical-emotional being and ask, am I happy? I hope the answer is yes. If not, find the workout that gives you that answer.

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Pushing Through Brick Walls And Learning Endurance

Michael Boblett | Posted 10.03.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Marathons Cross-Training, Spiritual Journey, Rheumatoid Arthritis, San Diego, Running, Marathon, Exercise, Spiritual Living, Physical Exercise, Outdoor Exercise, Spirituality, Spiritual Practice, Motivational-Success, Arthritis, Healthy Living News

Running is not about winning. It's about finishing.

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Heidi Klum Hosts A Fun Summer Run

The Huffington Post | Sara Gaynes | Posted 09.30.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Video, Summer Running, Celebrity Fitness, Heidi Klum, Fitness and Exercise, Heidi Klum Running, Summer Fitness, Outdoor Exercise, Healthy Living News

Heidi Klum started a challenge this summer to run -- outside!-- all over New York City. Last week she hosted one of her early-AM jaunts in Central Par...

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Gonna Make You Sweat: Outdoor Workouts In NY

| Jeralyn Gerba | Posted 08.23.2011 | New York

Read More: Outdoor Exercise Ny, Outdoor Exercise New York, NY Around Town, Citysbest, City's Best NY, Outdoor Exercise, New York Outdoor Workouts, New York News

If your eyes glaze over at the mention of “gym membership,” think outside -- the box. Back To The Basics If you see men running, jumping, and...

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The Spiritual And Emotional Benefits Of Walking

Beverley Golden | Posted 07.19.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Exercise, Health Benefits of Walking, Walking for Fitness, Walking as a Practice, Outdoor Exercise, Stress Free Exercise, Heart Health, Spiritual Walking, Mindful Walking, Walking Benefits, Walking for Physical Health, Walking, Mindfulness, Healhty Living, Healthy Living Spirit, Healthy Living News

I've discovered that walking, in a purposeful and conscious way, is the walking that has the most magical of all benefits, because it connects you to a higher spiritual place, a source of unlimited possibilities.

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Exercise Etiquette

Lisa Mirza Grotts | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Don't Weight! The New Year is well on its way to springtime. If you haven't bought into the infomercials about dropping two sizes in a week or taking ...

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Can a Walking Workout Really Be as Good or Better than Running?

Jill S. Brown | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Read More: Fitness, Nordic Walking, Outdoor Fitness, Walking Exercise, Walking vs. Running, Outdoor Exercise, Exercise, Walking Fitness, Home News

Nordic Walking hasn't really caught on in the U.S. yet although I hear it's huge in Europe. There are so many benefits to the sport.

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How (And Why) City Mayors Should Promote Play

Darell Hammond | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Physical Fitness, Outdoor Exercise, Children's Health, Exercise, Urban Planning, Childhood Obesity, Healthy Living News

Play is under attack, and its enemies are wide-ranging. The good news is that the fight to save play can be advanced on many fronts, from federal prog...

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The Absurdity of Modern Exercise

Linda Buzzell | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Exercise, Outdoor Exercise, Health Exercise, Healthy Exercise, Natural Exercise, Wellness, Exercise Health, Healthy Living News

Ever wonder why many of us hire people to exercise for us as gardeners, house cleaners, etc., while we pay other folks big bucks to pound up and down on their indoor machines?

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PHOTOS: Getting Fit One Step At A Time: LA's Best Local Stair Climbs

LA Mag | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles

Read More: Los Feliz, Local Stair Climbs, Slidepollajax, Stair-Climbing, Outdoor Exercise, Silverlake, Los Angeles Stairs, Los Angeles News

(The following article be Charles Fleming comes courtesy of Los Angeles Magazine) In the spring of 2006, I was scheduled for my third spinal surgery i...

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Crystal Renn is Big on Beauty and Brains: Why This Positive Plus-Size Model is Poised to Change Fashion

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style

Gorgeous, opinionated and wise beyond her years, plus-size model Crystal Renn is shaking some sense into the fashion industry and showing everyone that bigger is indeed beautiful.

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Childhood Obesity - Could Backyard Games Help?

Laura Trice | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Childhood Obesity, Kids Exercise, Kids Health, Kid's Health, Healthy Kids, Children's Health, Outdoor Exercise, Kid's Exercise, Healthy Living News

Author Marlene Byrne is re-teaching kids the backyard and outdoor games that we played. She also alluded to the decrease of backyard play and the possible connection to childhood obesity.

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Six Ways that Play Can Help Solve Childhood Obesity (As Reported by the White House Task Force)

Darell Hammond | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: White House, Michelle Obama, Outdoor Exercise, Play, State of Play, Health, Childhood Obesity, Politics News

The action plan released today by the Childhood Obesity Task Force is optimistically entitled, "Solving the Problem of Childhood Obesity Within a Gene...

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Con Games: The Bowl

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver

Read More: Friendship, Fear, Aspen, Aspen Highlands, Skiing, Outdoor Recreation, Outdoor Exercise, Highland Bowl, Denver News

Highland Bowl hangs there above you wherever you are in Aspen, and if you're a skier the shadow is longer still. The purity of it here at the peak of Aspen Highlands is all but beyond description.

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The Sunny Side of This Weekend's Snow Storm

Sharon Duke Estroff | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Get your cubs out of hibernation and into the happy, healing sun this weekend with these cool snow day activities.

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How to Take Powderhorn

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver

Read More: Grand Junction-Colorado, Vacation, Travel, Grand Mesa, Snowboarding, Colorado, Skiing, Outdoor Exercise, Denver News

Within one hour of skiing Powderhorn in Grand Mesa, my wife said: "I love this place." On powder days there may be no better place in Colorado.

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Skiing With a Silly Grin

Alexia Parks | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver

Read More: Ski, Eldora, Colorado, Skiing, Boulder Colorado, Outdoors, Outdoor Exercise, Boulder, Denver News

I'm skiing one of Colorado's best kept secrets. In fact, at 2 p.m. today, I stopped midway down a long slope, then looked up and down for traffic. There was none. I was the only one.

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In Search Of LA... Runyon Canyon Park, Sunday Afternoon (Photos)

Jim Stevenson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles

Read More: Photos, Green Space, Outdoor Exercise, Outdoors, Los Angeles, Parks, Slidepoll, La Real Estate, Los Angeles News

Jim Stevenson took photos on a Sunday afternoon in LA's Runyon Canyon Park.

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Queens Lags Behind the Nation in Late-Stage Breast Cancer detection

Omar Kasrawi | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Read More: Jamaica Queens, Breast Cancer, Queens Cancer Center, Breast Cancer Screenings, Rochdale Village, Outdoor Exercise, Exercise, Healthlink, New York News

A grassroots effort called HealthLink is mobilizing breast cancer survivors to reach out in laundry rooms and libraries across the borough to screen women in time.

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To Pay or Not to Pay

Chantal Unfug | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver

Read More: Parks, Events, Denver, Civic Center Park, Mile High Music Festival, Outdoor Recreation, Outdoor Exercise, Denver News

Is Denver an aberration for trying to host admission based events in parks or an aberration for not?

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Where the Wild Things Really Are

Darell Hammond | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Living News, Personal Health, Children, Nature, Nature-Deficit-Disorder, Green Living, Children's Health, Outdoor Exercise, Childhood Obesity, Healthy Living News

In addition to great fun, outdoor play gives children the physical activity their growing bodies need, as well as the interaction that will help them to develop cognitive, social and emotional skills.

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Surfing Lee Street Beach

Michael Jones | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

Read More: Lee Street Beach, Big Wednesday, Lake Michigan, Outdoor Exercise, Evanston, Surfing, Chicago News

In surfing, as in bull fighting, there seem to be only two types of participants. Matadors are either insanely brave or absolute cowards.

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World of Warcraft in Colorado

Ef Rodriguez | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver

Read More: Geeks, Boulder, World of Warcraft, Gaming, Video Games, Mmorpg, Denver, Fantasy, Hiking, Outdoors, Outdoor Exercise, Denver News

So among the millions of Americans prancing around the online world of Azeroth, casting fire spells against the undead, there are only five Mile High players? Nonsense. I think they're hiding.

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It's Wednesday Night, What Meeting Am I in?

Chantal Unfug | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver

Read More: Government, Parks and Recreation, Community Organizing, Denver Parks, La Alma Neighborhood Denver, Denver Public Libraries, Public Libraries, Denver Public Schools, Byers Library, Outdoor Exercise, Outdoors, Denver News

At the discussion about the Byers Library, or the session about Lake Middle School, the anger was the same, the distrust of the bureaucracy was the same, and the total exasperation was the same.

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