Topic: Working Out

Bar Method seeks the dancer's body without the dance

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Women who crave muscle tone but fear bulging biceps are flocking to The Bar Method, a body-sculpting exercise system that purports to whittle dancer-type forms from non-dancing bodies.Enthusiasts say the workout, which engages a ballet bar and ...

Conquering skyscrapers to keep fit

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Although they may be unable to leap tall buildings in a single bound, enthusiasts of tower climbing insist they can conquer skyscrapers, and stay fit, just by taking the stairs.When it comes to multi-story run-ups, the higher ...

When getting fit takes an online village

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Personal trainers are a resilient bunch. When the economy tanked they drifted from costly one-on-one sessions to more cost-effective small group training.With clients still counting their pennies, trainers have now taken to the cloud on the theory ...

Russia's Putin reveals fitness secrets to supermodel

MOSCOW (Reuters Life!) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin revealed the secrets of swimming butterfly across a Siberian river and how to keep a tone body in an interview with British supermodel Naomi Campbell published on Tuesday.Putin, Russia's 58-year-old paramount leader, has ...

For fitness success, stick to a plan

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Before January's determination to shape up in 2011 fades into February's remorse, fitness experts warn about the most common mistakes than can impede success.Without a plan, they say, many a New Year's fitness resolution is lost."It's bigger ...

Fitness guru Jack LaLanne dies at 96 in California

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jack LaLanne, a one-time sugar-holic who became a television fitness guru preaching exercise and healthy diet to a generation of American housewives, died on Sunday at age 96, his daughter said.LaLanne, who became U.S. television fixture in his ...

Age-appropriate exercises gain ground in 2011

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Health clubs, aware that the fitness needs of boomers, people in their 30s and 40s and youths differ, will be offering more age-appropriate workouts in the new year.Group exercise classes, both traditional and novel, will continue their ...

Correction: Gyms offer circus spins, lovelorn lunges

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - How can you mend a broken heart? Try a squat.Vying for new memberships in 2011, fitness centers, gyms and studios are offering everything from circus stunts to breakup advice."January is our sweet spot. This time of year ...

Gyms offer circus spins, lovelorn lunges

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - How can you mend a broken heart? Try a squat.Vying for new memberships in 2011, fitness centers, gyms and studios are offering everything from circus stunts to breakup advice."January is our sweet spot. This time of year ...
Getting fit at 50 and staying that way through the decades doable with workout tweaksAt 45, DeEtte Sauer was a dead woman walking.She was morbidly obese, her heart disease so serious a doctor warned her to expect "an event at any time." ...