Month: April 2012
Southeast Texans offer tips on how to drop those pounds
By David Henry Willie Gillis III works out at Exygon Health and Fitness Club in Beaumont in Beaumont, Thursday, April 12, 2012. Gillis has lost 230 pounds through diet and exercise. Tammy McKinley/The Enterprise Photo: TAMMY MCKINLEY / BE Willie Gillis …
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Fewer children die in accidents; drug overdoses up
Injury deaths drop among US kids: study
Childhood deaths from injury have dropped almost 30 percent over the past decade, but suffocation deaths by infants and fatal poisonings among teens have risen, said a US study out Monday.
Get in line with exercises geared toward skating
WEEK 4 – EXERCUFF SIDE STEPS: Sherri McMillan demonstrates exercises you can do outdoors as part of an eight-week fitness program. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian) By Sherri McMillan By Troy Wayrynen WEEK 4 – ONE LEGGED STANCE: Sherri McMillan …
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Weekly challenge: acclimate to heat when exercising outdoors
By Deborah Kotz, Globe Staff With temperatures expected to hit the high 80s in Boston on Monday, those exercising outdoors — including the thousands of marathoners — need to adjust their workouts to the heat. Marathon officials, in fact, …
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Lockheed Martin Hosts Cyber Defense Exercise Supporting NSA for 10th Straight Year
Lockheed Martin coordinated with NSA to establish a private network for the exercise, which links all the academies with CDX headquarters at the Lockheed Martin facility in Hanover. The company is also providing technical support for CDX preparation …
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Man Rigs His Exercise Bike to Work with Super Mario Kart
By Keith Wagstaff | @kwagstaff | April 16, 2012 | + Remember that exercise bike you bought? The one coated in dust in your “exercise room”? Well, dig it out, because it's time to win the Mushroom Cup. Brent Smith, hero to lazy people everywhere, …
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The Y Takes On Diabetes
If class enrollment goals are reached, and if participants lose 5% to 7% of their body weight over the year, the Y gets additional payments. The reason insurers and employers are willing to ante up: Preventing diabetes can save them and the health-care …
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Mario Kart Exercise Bike Fitness Mod (video) » Geeky Gadgets
TheSNES fitness mod has been developed by Canadian modder Brent Smith, who has used a Arduino board, together with a fewsensors/switches and some transistors, to convert the controls from the SNES controller on to the exercise bike.
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Langley AFB to conduct exercise | WAVY.com | Langley AFB, Va.
A base-wide exercise will be held starting Tuesday on Langley Air Force Base in Virginia Beach.
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Exercise bike connects to original Mario Kart, Rainbow Road …
Canadian modder Brent Smith has managed to connect an aging exercise bike to Nintendo's perennial racer. Naturally, there's some Arduino involvement, but.
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