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• Are your nutrition habits robbing you from the body you desire? 27 Feb 2007 • Ways Of Approaching Dieting 13 Mar 2007 • Cellulite: Horrors! 16 Mar 2007 • Eat Fish For Health 11 Mar 2007 • Menopause 16 Mar 2007 • The Dangers of Deep Vein Thrombosis 16 Mar 2007 • A Lifetime or More Of Cosmetic Change To The Nose 7 Mar 2007 • Prevent Acne 7 Mar 2007 • Want a new pair of eyes? Get Lasik Done Today 13 Mar 2007 • Proper Nutrition for Sportsmen 16 Mar 2007 • Nutritional Myths that Just Won't Die: Protein! 16 Mar 2007 • Physical Fitness - Is Your Workout Missing Something? 11 Mar 2007 • Liquid Vitamins Fortify Phytonutrients, Why? 16 Mar 2007 • Identify Fake Weight Loss Claims 30 Nov 1999 • The real causes of Back Pain are not what you think... 16 Mar 2007 • The Right School is Crucial for Aspergers Children 16 Mar 2007 • Staying on Your Diet throughout the Holidays 27 Feb 2007 • Travel Nurses Provide One Solution To Nursing Shortage 27 Feb 2007 • Less Sleep Can Equal More Weight Gain 16 Mar 2007 • What's New in Antiaging Products? 17 Mar 2007 • How scent can change your life 7 Mar 2007 • Insomnia - How to Actually Get Some Sleep 16 Mar 2007 • DEA Operation High Step Seizes Heroin-Laced Artwork 16 Mar 2007 • Help Prevent Wrinkles Through Diet 27 Feb 2007 • The Fundamentals Of Skin Care 11 Mar 2007 • NaProTechnology: A Medical Breakthrough in Infertility Treatment 16 Mar 2007 • Cancer Patients' Experience With Pain Finds Relief 11 Mar 2007 • How Acupuncture Could Be What You Are Seeking 13 Mar 2007 • Eating Healthy During Pregnancy 13 Mar 2007 • The Importance of Good Health and How to Achieve It 7 Mar 2007 • Safe Tanning Using A Tanning Bed 16 Mar 2007 • Quitting Smoking 11 Mar 2007 • Does Hypnosis Work to Help You Quit Smoking? 16 Mar 2007 • Vitamin and Mineral Digestion Taken For Granted 16 Mar 2007 • Exotic Birds As Pets 16 Mar 2007 • 'Pretty to Gorgeous' - A Five minutes Routine 16 Mar 2007 • A New Era in Fitness & Weight Loss 27 Feb 2007 • Hemorrhoids - How To Ease A Painful Condition 11 Mar 2007 • Illinois' Network of Social Services 16 Mar 2007 • Recipes - Generational Treasure Of Meals 13 Mar 2007 • Life As A Pharmacy Technician: Orders In - Orders Out 11 Mar 2007 • Not All Is Wellness 16 Mar 2007 • Can Sun Tanning be Safe? 13 Mar 2007 • Environment 101 16 Mar 2007 • Therapeutic Manipulation – What Exactly Does it Mean? 16 Mar 2007 • Why Our Tears Are Salty 16 Mar 2007 • Diabetes: Calling for Double Trouble 30 Nov 1999 • Alternative Therapies for Cancer 16 Mar 2007 • Dieting while Partying 30 Nov 1999 • Stress, Anxiety and Depression - What is the difference? 16 Mar 2007 • When Good People Go Bonkers 16 Mar 2007 • Identifying the Signs of Breast Cancer 16 Mar 2007 • Protect Yourself From Fitness Fraud 16 Mar 2007 • Confusion and Conflict when it comes to HIV and AIDS 11 Mar 2007 • Do You Have Milk Allergies? 7 Mar 2007 • DO YOU HAVE A NOSE FOR GOOD RHINOPLASTY? 16 Mar 2007 • Why choose Pilates 16 Mar 2007 • Surviving the Menopause 11 Mar 2007 • Hypertension or High Blood Pressure 11 Mar 2007 • Steps To Stomp Out Migraines 7 Mar 2007 • Bird Flu: Should I Be Worried? 16 Mar 2007 • Pain Management for Cancer Patients 16 Mar 2007 • Tips For Contact Lens Wearers To Keep Their Eyes Happy 7 Mar 2007 • Helping Your Child Sleep 13 Mar 2007 • A Restful Night's Sleep Holds Back Diabetes 7 Mar 2007 • Suffering From Joint Pain? 16 Mar 2007 • Childhood Diabetes: Your Child's Rights at School 17 Mar 2007 • Connecting With the Spirit of the Land 13 Mar 2007 • Just in Case: Some Asthma Pillow Talk 16 Mar 2007 • Environment- Maintaining the Delicate Balance! 16 Mar 2007 • Types of Dentists Today 16 Mar 2007 • The Top 10 Ways to Increase your Natural Energy 27 Feb 2007 • Ovarian Wedge Resection for Polycystic Ovaries 16 Mar 2007 • Proper Nutrition Can Make Your Kid a Top Student 16 Mar 2007 • Weight Lifting Benefits Your Health more than Sports 16 Mar 2007 • The Truth About Diabetes 16 Mar 2007 • Anorexia Destroys Self-Image 11 Mar 2007 • Water, The Magical Drink 30 Nov 1999 • The Care of Rheumatoid Arthritis 11 Mar 2007 • The Healing Powers Of Light On Psoriasis 11 Mar 2007 • Mesothelioma And The Dangers Of Asbestos 11 Mar 2007 • Using Head Massage for perfect Inner / Outer Health 30 Nov 1999 • Fido Needs a Fix: Treating Canine Depression 17 Mar 2007 • The Raindrop Technique Massage 7 Mar 2007 • Handling Severe Depression 16 Mar 2007 • Dealing with Mosquitoes in the Natural Way 11 Mar 2007 • #1 Liquid Vitamin Myth 16 Mar 2007 • Eating Right 7 Mar 2007 • The Three Faces of Mesothelioma 11 Mar 2007 • Fitness and Kids 17 Mar 2007 • DEA Shatters International Internet Drug Ring 16 Mar 2007 • Perfume Power 16 Mar 2007 • Healthy, Wealthy and Wise? 7 Mar 2007 • What Can You Do About Depression! The St John Alternative 17 Mar 2007 • Weight-Loss Secrets: The 3 Meal Lie / The Fat Maker & Heart Killer 11 Mar 2007 • Cute Pugs 16 Mar 2007 • Eliminate Troubling Back Pain and Eye Strain Associated With Heavy Computer Use 7 Mar 2007 • How to Attack Elite Performance 13 Mar 2007 • Surviving Autism in Your Family 16 Mar 2007 • Is the Anti-Aging Fight a Losing Battle? 17 Mar 2007 • What Are The 3 Critical Exercise Routine Success Factors? 13 Mar 2007 • Wheelchairs In The Workplace 7 Mar 2007 • Kick The Flu Out without taking any medicine and tamiflu 16 Mar 2007 • Is Obesity Catching? 16 Mar 2007 • A Primer for Using a Wheelchair 7 Mar 2007 • Right Food for Right Health 27 Feb 2007 • Get fit without going to the gym or doing aerobics 11 Mar 2007 • How to Prepare for a Marathon 11 Mar 2007 • Managing Chronic Pain 16 Mar 2007 • Magnesium - An Important Mineral 11 Mar 2007 • Coping With Depression 7 Mar 2007 • Music: The Fuel for Plant Souls 16 Mar 2007 • Why are There More Diabetes Cases in Children? 17 Mar 2007 • Pregnancy & Chiropractic Care 17 Mar 2007 • Slipped Disc and its Chiropractic Treatment 17 Mar 2007 • Wearing Contact Lens Can Lead To Discomfort And Other Symptoms 27 Feb 2007 • Get Hold of those love handles and make a commitment 13 Mar 2007 • You Don't Have to Like Your Body to Love It! 7 Mar 2007 • Ways to Quit Smoking 13 Mar 2007 • The Beauty of Your Skin 30 Nov 1999 • Blood Pressure : Killing By Stealth 7 Mar 2007 • Senior Living: Choosing the Best Option for an Elderly Parent 7 Mar 2007 • Get Started Exercising Now! 16 Mar 2007 • Use of Muscle Relaxers for Lower Back Pain 16 Mar 2007 • Arthritis, The Pain And The Reasons 16 Mar 2007 • Help Your Baby Develop Character 27 Feb 2007 • Living With the Discomfort of Psoriasis 16 Mar 2007 • Common Fitness Mistakes 17 Mar 2007 • Brink's Unified Theory of Nutrition For Weight Loss and Muscle Gain 16 Mar 2007 • Learning To Understand And Live With ADHD 16 Mar 2007 • The Benefits of Counseling 27 Feb 2007 • Cause of Mesothelioma 7 Mar 2007 • PROTECT YOUR ENVIRONMENT AND IT WILL PROTECT YOU 16 Mar 2007 • Vitamins Keep Your Heart Fighting Fit 16 Mar 2007 • The truth about low-carb diets 7 Mar 2007 • Caring for Damaged Teeth 7 Mar 2007

Healthy Tips (Total : 2)

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• For women, to help ease the discomfort experienced... 17 Oct 2007

• Every now and then, allow yourself to stop and cho... 17 Oct 2007

Hiking along a rocky trail, two of the three friends carefully picked their way from rock to rock. But one leaped from rock to rock, bounding by the others like a gazelle running and leaping from rock to rock. Never missing his footing, the others wondered at his almost supernatural grace and skill. "How does he do that?" they thought.

When most people think of physical fitness, they think of strength and cardiovascular fitness. If they are really thinking about it, they'll add flexibility to the list.

But there's something few people think about when working out, a missing component of physical fitness. You can't get it just by lifting weights or running on a treadmill.

The missing component is agility.

Agility is what let my friend run rings around us, leaping from rock to rock along the Pedernales River in Texas. Agility is what you see in top athletes who make great skill look effortless. Agility is what helps a ballet dancer make it look effortless. Agility is how Jackie Chan can still do martial arts even while he is rolling over tables, bouncing off walls, leaping between the rungs of ladders.

I didn't understand that until years after the hike along the Pedernales River. Now, after doing martial arts for almost 30 years, I understand. When you watch someone who moves with grace and skill, you're seeing agility.

Have you ever had an experience where you felt clumsy?

Have you ever fumbled the ball, or tripped over your own two feet?

Or have you ever seen someone who is in great shape, but they just can't coordinate, they can't move?

The missing component of physical fitness is agility.

If you just do weights or cardio, you're not going to develop agility. If you want agility, you have to move, and you have to adapt on the fly to changing (and often intense) situations.

Some sports and fitness activities promote agility more than others. For me, martial arts gave me agility. I've been dong WingTsun Kung Fu(TM) for 25 years, and martial arts in general for almost 30. I have to be able to adapt to what an opponent is doing quickly and perfectly. I have to seize the advantage, gain and maintain dynamic control. I have to stay balanced and graceful even while moving rapidly and adjusting to the changing dynamics of sparring.

Many other sports really develop agility as well. Basketball, tennis, soccer, hockey, skiing, snowboarding... they all develop and require agility.

If you're not doing something to develop agility, today is a good day to start. You'll be amazed at the difference increased agility will make in feeling physically fit. Before long you'll move with the grace of a cat, you'll bound like a gazelle.

Don't just lift weights and do cardio - get out there and do something to increase your agility as well. Get together with some buddies for basketball. Go play some tennis. Take up martial arts. Agility will give you the ability to actually DO something with all of the physical fitness you've been developing. You will feel better and move better, and you will probably have a lot more fun than just running on a treadmill or lifting weights!

Author: Mike Adams

Mike Adams owns WingTsun Kung Fu schools in Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa - Dynamic Martial Arts Mike also runs Fitness.com

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Tel: 801-331-5007

Web: http://www.fitness-catalog.com

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