Topic: Working Out

Pregnant Kastor will miss New York City marathon

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. women's marathon record-holder Deena Kastor will miss November's New York City Marathon as she is pregnant, she said Thursday. The child, which will be Kastor's first, is due in March, her management company and the New York ...

Legendary boxing gym goes the distance

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - The folks at Gleason's Gym like to say that boxing is the art of not getting hit. With its down-at-the-heels decor, Gleason's looks like it's taken a punch or two. But focus and fancy footwork have kept ...

Work/rest intervals ratchet up workouts

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - If your cardio routine is in the doldrums, try mixing a little tortoise in with that hare. Experts say interval training, alternating bursts of intensity activity with less intense periods, can burn more calories, boost stamina, and ...

Cruise fitness: Trimming those sails at sea

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Cruise liners, long considered modern-day galleons of gluttony, are also hoisting seriously sophisticated fitness and wellness centers on the high seas. The food has not disappeared but a battery of seaworthy fitness experts are also on deck ...

Tighter belts shape health club industry

NEW YORK, June 21 (Reuters Life! - The nearly $70-billion-dollar global health club industry is rolling with the punches of a tough economy while seizing the opportunities of globalization, a new report shows. Big health club chains tackled far-flung markets, and value ...

Workout music: give me the beat boys

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Rock, hip hop or R&B, if it has a pounding tempo music can really rock your cardio workout. Fitness experts say boosted by that backbeat you might not even notice that you're working harder. "Higher tempo certainly ...
VW adds workouts for hires at new US plant, aims for 'industrial athlete' fit for workVolkswagen is requiring production workers hired for its new U.S. assembly plant to go through a fitness program on top of the usual job training, aiming to ...

Push-up stunt backfires on regretful Ginepri

PARIS (Reuters) - Robby Ginepri lifted spirits at the French Open on Monday with a display of showmanship rarely seen in the game these days, but it may have cost him a place in the quarter-finals of the claycourt slam. The 27-year-old ...

Pacquiao relaxes blood test stance on Mayweather bout

MANILA (Reuters) - Manny Pacquiao would be willing to take a blood test 14 days prior to a bout with Floyd Mayweather Jr, local media reports said, edging the two men regarded as the world's best pound-for-pound boxers closer to a showdown. ...

App Review: My Fitness Instructor

In my experience, iPhone workout apps are generally pretty crappy. They normally fall into two camps: impossible-to-navigate workout calendars or form guides that are so devoid of form, they're only effective if you want to use them as evidence in a court ...
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