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Your special report, "How to Get Fitter, Faster," should be read by every American [June 6]. Many of my patients belong to the new breed of pill-popping couch potatoes you wrote about. I have laminated the pages of your magazine's stories and hung them in the reception area of my office. It's a little thing, but the patient has to stand up to read them...
...became fitter. I began to work out, take care of my body more. It may be corny, but it would be untrue not to say that you do suddenly see the use of stopping to smell the flowers. Because if you're not careful, life will speed right back up on you, and you will forget how lucky you are to be on the right side of the grass each morning...
...full session of aerobic exercise? I had Miriam Nelson, a respected exercise physiologist at Tufts University, look at the three studies cited on the website. What they actually say, she explains, is that adding an intense four-minute workout to your regular aerobic routine can make you slightly fitter. Beyond that, the studies were small and 10 years old. If the four-minute workout truly worked, Nelson says, "everything we know about fitness and metabolism would be wrong. I just don't buy it." Oh, well. I guess I'll just go running. --By Michael D. Lemonick
RECOVERY The fitter you become, the shorter your recovery time will be. If you feel pain the day after your workout, your body needs a rest. If you?re not too sore, continue with your program. If you don?t feel any discomfort at all, increase the intensity of your training...
...fitness advocates, such developments remain an exception in 21st century America. New subdivisions with no place to walk, new buildings without useable stairways and cash-strapped schools without adequate P.E. remain the rule. "This movement is like turning around a battleship," admits Ewing. But the search for a fitter lifestyle for the nation--and for each of us--has to start somewhere, and the best way to do that is to move forward one step at a time. --With reporting by Carolina A. Miranda and Alice Park