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Whether your exercise playlist leans toward Radiohead or Rocky, all songs eventually get tired. Now several new services promise to relieve the tedium with downloadable MP3 workouts. Among the best is iAmplify.com which puts a personal trainer in your iPod or other portable digital music player. Workout choices range from yoga and Pilates to cardio and strength training. Our pick: the Total Body Blitz. It's a 30-min. power-Pilates routine for $4.95 that's surprisingly challenging and doesn't require special gear. iAmplify plans to add video workouts in February. A good alternative site is Cardiocoach.com which offers...
...three college women and one WNBA player have ever dunked during a game; Parker first slammed as a high school sophomore. Although her dunks fetch the most attention, her game is complete: she dribbles like a point guard and throws no-look passes from the post, and during one workout, the right-hander hit 22 out of 30 three-pointers--shooting left-handed...
...George Richter’s “Said” and Georg Baselitz’s “Triangle” turn a usually simple medium—oil on canvas—into a workout for your retinas. One can’t help but struggle to shift the focus from the painting’s surface to what is below, over and over again. At over two-and-a-half meters high each, both paintings are bold, bursting with color and texture. The physical material of the paint seems to extend...
...look to their coaches to provide an offseason and preseason training regimen, the Harvard team has had to call on outside connections to get prepared. Sophomore Matt Basilico got a little help from high places to set up a plan. “The kind of structure of the workout was taken from a coach [Tom Sell], someone that coached both me and...our No. 1 skier from last year,” Basilico said. “And he’s now gone on to be the U.S. Ski Team head coach for the men?...
...cardio tennis media rollout. There was a huge tent with lots of reporters and bands. We did a few sound bites, and then met our dad who briefed us before we did our usual two-minute dog and pony show-which consists of explaining how we practice, the workouts we use, etc. All of these are high energy drills set to music. It was basically showcasing tennis as a fun and healthy way to workout. Denise Austin (the fitness mogul) and Mary Joe Fernandez were also there...