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How to Treat Selected Injuries to Walkers and Joggers

The following injuries are the most common to walkers and joggers. Achilles Tendon Injuries The achilles tendon connects the calf muscle to the heel of the foot. Achilles tendonitis is…

Andrew Reinert April 24, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Treat Muscle Soreness

Muscle soreness after walking and jogging is probably attributable to microscopic tears in muscle fibers and damage to muscle membranes. This damage is partially responsible for the localized pain, tenderness,…

Andrew Reinert April 24, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Treat Common Injuries Associated with Walking and Jogging

The following discussion covers treatments for common musculoskeletal injuries associated with walking and jogging. It begins with the standard RICES treatment. General Treatment: The RICES Principle The standard treatment for…

Andrew Reinert April 24, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Prevent Osteoporosis with Exercise

Osteoporosis is a silent chronic disease that produces a loss of bone mass resulting in structural deterioration of the skeleton and increased susceptibility to bone breakage, this disease is mostly…

Andrew Reinert April 24, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Prevent Injury in Walking and Jogging Program

Exercise participants will incur an injury or two if they exercise long enough. Fortunately, most injuries are minor and respond to minimal treatment. The first step in treating the injury…

Andrew Reinert April 24, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Prevent High Blood Pressure through Exercise

Blood pressure is recorded in millimeters of mercury (mmHg). It is the combined force that circulating blood exerts against the artery walls plus the resistance to blood flow by the…

Andrew Reinert April 23, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Prevent Cancer with Exercise

Cancer, the second leading cause of death in the U. S., is responsible for one in every four deaths. Projected estimates for 2001 indicated that 553,400 people would die from…

Andrew Reinert April 23, 2010

Lifestyle & Personality

How to Move toward an Active Lifestyle

Motivating people to begin and maintain an active way of life is a formidable and perplexing task. Although much has been said and written about the value of exercise, only…

Alan Kennon April 23, 2010

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How to Motivate Yourself to Exercise

Research has suggested that exercise and physical activities consist of behaviors that are more complex than other health-related behaviors. Although exercise has some commonalities with other health behaviors, it is…

Andrew Reinert April 23, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Measure Body Composition

Body composition assessment requires the separation and quantification of lean tissue from fat. Many indirect methods for measuring this component have been developed but we will focus on just one—skinfold…

Andrew Reinert April 23, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Manage Time for Physical Exercise

All of the changes over the past century have made it difficult to find time to schedule exercise. Effective management of time is becoming more important as we attempt to…

Andrew Reinert April 23, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Get Health Benefit from Walking and Jogging

During the last three to four decades, literally hundreds of studies have been completed and reported in professional journals regarding the relationship between exercise and health. The mainstream print and…

Andrew Reinert April 23, 2010

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How to Gain Weight for Underweight People

The purposeful gain of weight represents a real problem for people who are underweight. What constitutes underweight? This question has not been satisfactorily answered. In any case, actuarial statistics indicate…

Andrew Reinert April 23, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Gain Motivation to Exercise

Various strategies are available that may motivate us to exercise. Predicting the precise motive that will stimulate a specific individual to exercise, however, remains elusive. The following are practical suggestions…

Andrew Reinert April 23, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Exercise with Asthma

The American Thoracic Society has defined asthma as the increased responsiveness of the trachea (windpipe) and bronchi (the two main subdivisions of the trachea that transport air to and from…

Andrew Reinert April 23, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Exercise Safely during Pregnancy

Women can profit substantially from exercise during pregnancy. But exercise during pregnancy should be discussed with a woman's physician. If she was actively engaged in exercise prior to pregnancy, she…

Andrew Reinert April 23, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Exercise on a Regular Basis

To be effective, walking, jogging, or any other form of exercise must be performed regularly. Regular participation for 2 to 3 months will yield substantial physiological and psychological benefits that…

Andrew Reinert April 23, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Determine the Frequency of Your Exercise Program

Frequency refers to the number of times per week that a person participates in physical activity. To develop physical fitness, you must exercise three to five days per week at…

Andrew Reinert April 23, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Deal with High Cholesterol

Cholesterol is a steroid required for the manufacture of hormones and bile (for the digestion and absorption of fats); it is one of the structural components of neural tissue; and…

Andrew Reinert April 23, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Cope with Physical Inactivity through Exercise

Physical inactivity is debilitating to the human body. Humans illustrate the biological dictate, "Use it or lose it." That which we use becomes stronger, while that which we do not…

Andrew Reinert April 23, 2010