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...hand-to-hand combat, the American worker would lose to a band of sleepy preschoolers. Only 15% of workers exercise enough, and 40% don't attempt so much as a sit-up. More than half blame work, with 8 in 10 grousing that they would hit the treadmill--really they would--if only their employers encouraged...
...things up to a short-lived “next level.” After advancing to the eighth round of competition, Jobson and McGinn, both Crimson editors, decided that in order to win the coveted $50 prize, they would need to spice up their wildly popular pushup and sit-up infused routine. “We only made it [that far] based on reputation, and that my roommate [Theodore E. Chestnut ’06] was judging,” McGinn says. But the coordination which had characterized the earlier Jazzercise-style performance was lost when they tried...
...prevailing wisdom among gym rats used to be that the best measure of core strength was how many sit-ups and push-ups they could do. That's wrong on two counts. Sit-ups and push-ups primarily work the muscles on the front side of the trunk, leaving those of the back weak and unengaged. It is also very easy to cheat at sit-ups by allowing hip muscles, and not the abdominals, to do the work. A properly executed crunch may not be as impressive as a sit-up, but the goal is to isolate and strengthen...
...haven't felt so worked out in years," smiles the willowy Twinka Thiebaud, a caterer in Los Angeles who abandoned her mountain bike and health club when she was told that gardening might work just as well. Unlike a jog or a sit-up, she found, gardening is a purposeful exercise, a lung-cleaning, muscle-toughening activity that also decorates her house and stocks her pantry. "Every visit to the garden is the same," she says. "I'm just wiped out in a wonderful...
...Sit-Up Alarm. A bed that wakes the sleeper in the morning by raising him to a sitting position was announced by the Simmons Co. Plugged into a clock radio, the motorized bed rises slowly when the timer turns on the radio, TV, coffee percolator and phonograph, can also be raised for nighttime TV watching or meals in bed. Price...