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...Crespo, professor of social and preventive medicine at the University at Buffalo in New York. "It's a matter of being healthy." Experts like Crespo talk about seven components of fitness, a list that varies a bit from study to study but typically goes something like this: body composition, cardio-respiratory function, flexibility and range of motion, muscle strength, endurance, balance, and agility and coordination...
...walk into the gym, and there they are, the cardio-bots, half human, half machine, eyes fixed on banks of televisions and ears glued to iPods as they scale imaginary mountains or jog down simulated country roads. How driven they seem, how profoundly self-conscious. Digital monitors strapped around their biceps register their blood pressures and heart rates as their tissues absorb L-glutamine-laced protein drinks that taste like the sort of thing computers would drink if computers got thirsty. And though there must be 30 cardio-bots, lifting their sinewy thighs in unison as their StairMasters and treadmills...
...beginning of the week, Cheng and Brown videotaped each member’s routine to see where she could improve. In addition to dancing, the team also did a half-hour cardio workout every day to build up stamina...
...Eastern music--there's a new fan base that sees nothing unusual about executing a hip drop or camel walk to the strains of 21st century techno music as long as it's a good workout. And there are a host of new belly-dance videos with titles like Cardio Shimmy and Pure Sweat to show how it's done. "What we're doing is creating physical movement that has nothing to do with having an emotional connection with the culture," explains Berkeley, Calif., instructor Suhaila Salimpour, whose Fitness Fusion series of videos was released early this year...
...plans for spring break…each day I’ll lift from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m., and then read while I’m doing cardio. The book I want to read is [John Powell’s] Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am?; we had to read part of it in high school…it’s about why people think they need to compensate for their personality...