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...when I heard about a machine that promised a full aerobic and strength-training workout in just four minutes a day, I had to check it out. The device, called the ROM (for Range of Motion) 4-Minute CrossTrainer, is a futuristic-looking contraption with an impressive price tag ($14,615). The manufacturer's website offers a scattering of testimonials (Tom Cruise reportedly owns one) and a link to several scientific studies backing up the four-minute claim...
...Yoga, Tai Chi, Pilates. Yoga is an ancient Indian discipline that links stretching exercises, breathing and meditation through the repetition of a series of poses, or asanas. Tai Chi is a slow-motion Chinese martial art designed to increase the chi, or life energy. Pilates is a muscle- lengthening program developed in Germany in the 1920s...
...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...
Walking and physical motion have also been steadily drained from the workplace. Even a low-impact job like research librarian no longer involves much reaching, bending and pulling tomes from the stacks--not when you can let your fingers do the walking on a keyboard. To put modern society's lack of movement in context, researchers at the University of Tennessee's Department of Health and Exercise Science studied a group of Old Order Amish, a religious sect that shuns cars and other modern conveniences. Using pedometers, the researchers found that the average Amish man took 18,425 steps...
Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory ’82, who submitted the motion for the lack of confidence vote in Summers, ran for council election but lost, according to Mendelsohn...