Category Archives: Exercise

Erin’s Journal Week Six. Part 2

Sharon’s Reply
Erin,

I can tell that you are thinking about the program every time you make a food choice. If you cannot find a lower calorie substitution for a food or meal, at least you can eat less of it! So, reducing the frequency of ice cream is helpful, even though you cannot seem to eliminate it.

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Erin’s Journal Week Six. Part 1

Hello,

I’m sorry for the lack of food diary and exercise log this week. Our internet access at home has problems, and I have been unable to access my email account. I do not have any of my journals either; they are on my home computer. Sorry things are not complete.

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Can You Hang

Members to an incentive program designed to accommodate and benefit all types of exercisers: young, old, special populations (members with closed head injury, stroke, etc.), members from our sport-specific program and city employees involved with our facility. There was a need to encourage more physical activity, and to educate members on its benefits for their specific needs and goals. read more »

Paradoxes in Tai Chi That Heal. Part 2

The immediate benefit that one experiences is a deeper relaxing breathing. One can also expect to have a better positive self-image and a relaxed mind. In everyday life, our state of being has been drained out by the stressful and highly demanding lifestyle in our modern society.

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Paradoxes in Tai Chi That Heal. Part 1

Does Tai Chi weaken or strengthen? The way a Tai Chi Chuan practitioner exercises the forms might look quite boring, too slow and unattractive. If we go to a public park, we can see that most practitioners are those who belong to the more experienced age brackets. A few teenagers, but most of them are more mature adults.

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