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Climbing off the couch and getting back into condition is a dicier proposition. Trying to do it too fast can actually be dangerous. "Among those at greatest risk for heart-attack death is the habitually sedentary person who engages in unaccustomed physical activity," warns Barry Franklin, physiologist and chairman of the American Heart Association's Physical Activities Committee. Before starting even a minimal exercise program, therefore, you should call your doctor for a preworkout O.K. or even a checkup...
Once you've been cleared for takeoff, the first step you take may be just that: a walking program that begins modestly and then builds up. Government guidelines recommend at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity activities including walking most days of the week, but Franklin believes in starting even more slowly, if necessary. "I ask my patients if they could manage as little as eight to 10 minutes," he says. "Most of the time they say they can, and then come back having done...
...improve overall measures of physical health as much as 15% in just three months. Since the human body after age 25 experiences, on average, about a 1% falloff in fitness for every additional year of life, the numbers are easy to crunch. "That's a 15-year functional rejuvenation," Franklin says...
...highly experienced commander. But a recently published book about the operation, written by respected US Army Times journalist Sean Naylor, has suggested the target was Al-Zawahiri, Osama Bin Laden's personal physician and al-Qaeda's second in command. The overall commander of the operation, Major General Franklin "Buster" Hagenbeck, recently told Time he believed the high-value target had been destroyed...
...task force recommends that one of the upperclass Houses be used as a summer dorm for students conducting research in Harvard labs. Franklin said the centralized housing could be “really fun” for students and that the dorm could host evening events teaching the “tools” of science research...