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Help Your Kids Develop a Good Body Image!

If you want your kids to have a healthy body image, it’s important to give kids positive messages without overdoing it. Here are ten things to tell your kids to help them accept and embrace their growing bodies.

Article by Weight Watchers Publishing Group via Weightwatchers.com

Girl hula hooping

There can be a fine line between helping kids of any age feel comfortable with their bodies and fostering complacency to the point where they aren’t interested in developing healthy habits. Similarly, there’s often a delicate balance between promoting a healthy body image and placing undue emphasis on looks and appearance issues. The key is to give kids positive messages about their bodies without overdoing it and to convey these lessons in an age-appropriate fashion; you’ll want to use simpler or more complex language depending on your children’s ages. You’ll want to send these messages with your own behavior, too.

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7 Strength Training Excuses: Busted!

No More Excuses! It’s time get strong.

 Article by Jennipher Walters via Sparkpeople.com 

Weights

Remember when you were a kid and claimed that your dog ate your homework, when really you just didn’t get around to writing your book report? Of course, your teacher knew you were fibbing. While most of us are past blaming the dog instead of taking responsibility for our actions, this doesn’t mean that we’re beyond using excuses—whether we realize it or not.

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Tame the Emotional Eating Beast for Good

3 Ways to Get Back on Track

— Article By Dean Anderson, Behavioral Psychology Expert via Sparkpeople

Woman Eating Chocolate

When weight loss professionals discuss emotional eating, you hear a lot of talk about stimulus control, stress management techniques, and cognitive reframing. This is all well and good (and you’ll be hearing some of that here), but it doesn’t quite capture the actual experience of being caught up in an episode of emotional eating. 

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Remember to Register for Thrive Across America!

It’s time to register and form teams for Thrive Across America! This online physical activity program lets you compete against your co-workers and have fun while getting fit. It’s simple. Each day you log 30 minutes or more of the exercise you choose, you earn a Thrive Across America star. Adding stars raises your score. The team (made up of 4 – 10 members) with the highest score at the end of the eight week program wins.

No matter what your fitness level, you can compete and win. Consistency, not athleticism, is the key to success here. You earn the same number of stars for any activity you do—from walking to cross-country skiing.

Get the app.

Download the Thrive Across America app for the iPhone® or Android™ from the App store or Android Market—and log your time as you go!
Get started! Registration and team formation has already started!

Competition begins June 18.

Register at http://riverside.thriveacrossamerica.com


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Seven Day Treadmill Kick-Start Guide!

Stay slim on your treadmill all season with this 7-day plan from Jenny Hadfield, author of Running for Mortals.

Article by: the editors of FITNESS Magazine

 

Monday

  • Power walk: 30 minutes
  • Strength-train: 20 minutes

Total: 50 minutes

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Trend Alert!

Two new classes are coming to Riverside!

1. Hot Hula Hot Hula DVD Cover

HOT HULA fitness® is a fun, new and exciting dance workout.  It provides a “total body workout” in 6o minutes.  HOT HULA fitness ® isolates your larger muscle groups, increasing strength and definition to your core with specific emphasis on the abs, glutes, quads and arms.  Inspired by the dances of the Pacific Islands, HOT HULA fitness®incorporates easy to perform dance movements set to the sounds of traditional Polynesian drum beats fused with funky Reggae music, resulting in a modern, hip fitness workout.  All ages and fitness levels will enjoy HOT HULA fitness®.

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Cheat Sheet: Aerobic vs. Anaerobic

Article by: Jonathan S. via www.livestrong.com

Man RunningThe human body relies on oxygen to perform physical exercise. Aerobic exercise is the form that uses oxygen on a steady basis and results in improved cardiovascular fitness. Anaerobic exercise uses less oxygen, relatively quickly, to build muscular strength and endurance.

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Zumba Start Guide!

Dance Your Way to Fitness

Article by: Jennipher Walters, Certified Personal Trainer and Group Exercise Instructor via www.sparkpeople.com

You’ve probably heard of the fitness craze Zumba, a workout known as a dance fitness party. I originally tried Zumba with a friend by following a fitness DVD.While the DVD was fun and the hip-swiveling moves were a blast (and effective at working up a sweat!), the best part of the workout was dancing with my friend—and giggling at each other as we tried to get our hips to salsa, merengue and cha-cha-cha like the girls in the video.Fast forward a few years, where I stumbled upon Zumba in a group workout class.

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4 Signs It’s Time to Change Your Workout Routine

What to Do When Your Workout Isn’t Working for You

Article by: Jen Mueller, Certified Personal Trainer via www.sparkpeople.com

When you started a regular exercise program, whether to lose weight or improve your overall health, your enthusiasm and motivation were high. Even though exercise wasn’t the most exciting activity you had experienced, you began feeling better and seeing results from your hard work. You managed to get yourself out of bed early, to squeeze in a little gym time each day, and stick to your plan without much effort.But then slowly, the novelty began to wear off. You started finding reasons to sleep in and found “better” things to do with your time.

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Learning to Love Exercise

Learning to Love Exercise

Yes, working out can be fun! Here are ideas to help you move beyond “having” to exercise to actually enjoying it.

Article by: Melissa Chessher via www.weightwatchers.com

Learning to Love Exercise

We’ve all made an early dash to the grocery store and witnessed that woman jogging. She looks graceful as she bounds through the neighborhood, and we wonder what on earth made her get up so early on a Saturday and dive into her running shoes. The answer, of course, is that she moved beyond the “need” to exercise and entered that mysterious land where she “wants” to.

We all possess the ability to tap into that place. In fact, it’s kind of like Dorothy’s red slippers — you’ve had it all along.

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