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Scooby’s 200 mile bike race – 2012 fitness goal – Video
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The Shaolin Athlete: Kung Fu Conditioning for Sports, Fitness, and Health -Featuring Former New York Football Giants …
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Edgewater, New Jersey (PRWEB) March 26, 2012
In any sport, there are good athletes and great athletes. This book is about improving athletic ability for sports. Want to excel and improve in sports? Need better endurance, focus, strength, or speed? If so, "The Shaolin Athlete" is the answer.
The "Shaolin Athlete" details the training methods Sifu Romain used to help Amani Toomer become the all-time leading pass receiver for the New York football Giants.
"The Shaolin Athlete" is not just for the serious athlete. "The Shaolin Athlete / Kung Fu Conditioning" program is the complete fitness and health program for everyone. Whether professional athlete, weekend warrior, or simply someone who wants to get in better shape and lose weight. The Kung Fu Conditioning exercises taught in "The Shaolin Athlete" target the body, mind, and spirit.
World Champion Master Karl Romain has been studying and training in Kung Fu for over 30 years. His clientele includes several well known athletes and celebrities. Additionally, Sifu Romain is asked to be an expert in many Kung Fu and workout seminars and lectures. He coordinates many off-site programs for various schools, municipalities, and major corporations. He has made frequent personal celebrity appearances on the Dr. Oz Show and other television shows.
Dr. Steve Kinnard earned a black sash and served as an assistant instructor in Sifu Karl Romains Academy. He also practices Tai Chi Chuan. Sifu Karl Romain and Dr. Kinnard developed a Kung Fu leadership program for at-risk youth, entitled, The Cross and the Warrior. Dr. Kinnard is a teacher and evangelist with the New York City Church of Christ. He is an Adjunct Professor of Bible and Theology at Lincoln Christian University. He is the author of over ten books.
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Fitness trainer touts Xbox motion control
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Its not a game changer for online fitness trainer Josh Neumann, but he believes a new motion control system for Microsofts video game console Xbox presents new health and fitness potential through gaming.
The co-founder of Stay Fit Anywhere set a benchmark for online training and works with clients around North America. Nothing can replace the benefits and interaction of meeting a trainer face to face, he says.
But the immersion gaming of Kinect comes close, and when users connect with one another using the system someone with dumbbells in one part of the world and another somewhere else with a professionals eye for technique can interact by teleconferencing.
Kinect, which is essentially a narrow camera box that attaches to an Xbox, doesnt just lose the hand-held wands or balance boards known to Sony and Nintendo usersthink Wii Fit. Its motion-sensor camera eliminates the need for a traditional game controller altogether.
You dont need to hold anything. Its just you and the game, Craig Flannagan, a marketing manager with Microsoft, said last week while showing off Kinect at a press preview before its wider release next month.
What Flannagan described as player projection tech translates to a camera that captures a users location and movement within an eight foot range, meaning an avatar on the TV jumps and lifts an arm to spike a volleyball the second the human player in the living room does so.
Theres nothing between you and your game, he said.
For blacktop racing, the plastic replica of a steering wheel is gone. In its place are your own two fists, held as if gripping the wheel. Play mechanicsessentially strategic leaning and a few timely elbow pumpspush your hotrod past the plumbers and over the finish line.
Designed by BigPark, a Vancouver-based design firm, Joy Ride is the first car racing game built for Kinect.
Founded in 2007, BigParks team has ties to Electronic Arts and Microsoft. Its popular franchises include FIFA Soccer, NBA Street and SSX, for snowboard cross. (Joy Ride has road elements that remind Flannagan of a half-pipe, which may be a hint of something to come. It feels snowboardy, he says. You can feel the BigPark roots.)
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FAT HEAD DOCUMENTARY MOVIE. Reviewed by Durianrider. Big fat lies? – Video
Posted: March 25, 2012 at 6:22 am
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How health care case will unfold before the court
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WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments on Monday over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, derisively labeled "Obamacare" by its opponents. A look at how the case will unfold before the court in question-and-answer form:
Q: What's this all about?
A: The Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which is Obama's signature domestic achievement. Passed by Congress in 2010, its aim is to provide health insurance to more than 30 million previously uninsured Americans, while trying to restrain costs and prevent disruptions to the majority already with coverage. Opponents say the law is unconstitutional; their chief argument is that Congress does not have the power to force unwilling Americans to buy health insurance or pay a fine.
Q: When will the court get started?
A: Justices will begin hearing arguments shortly after 10 a.m. EDT Monday, March 26. They will hear six hours of arguments on several different issues on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Q: Which issues on which days?
A: Monday's 90-minute argument is about whether court action is premature because no one yet has paid a fine for not having health insurance. Tuesday's two-hour argument will cover the central issue of whether Congress overstepped its authority by requiring Americans to purchase health insurance starting in 2014 or pay a penalty. Wednesday's arguments will be split into two parts: Justices will hear 90 minutes of debate in the morning over whether the rest of the law can take effect even if the health insurance mandate is unconstitutional and another hour Wednesday afternoon over whether the law goes too far in coercing states to expand the federal-state Medicaid program for low-income people by threatening to cut off federal aid to states that don't comply.
Q: When will the justices rule?
A: The court could decide any time, but complex cases argued in the spring normally produce decisions near the end of the court's session, scheduled for late June.
Q: Is it possible that the justices won't decide whether the law is constitutional or not?
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FITNESS: Sisters taking steps to better health
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If you're standing on the sidelines at the Monument Avenue 10K on Saturday, you may hear these three sisters coming.
They will be wearing identical baseball caps emblazoned with the words "Step Sisters." They'll be talking smack and laughing most of the time.
Pattie Hallett, Kathy Hallett and Mary Tomes, who are in their 50s, are sisters with a rivalry that goes back to their childhood in Richmond. Whether they were playing basketball, swimming or playing tennis, there was always an underlying competition among them.
Kathy, the middle sister, sums it up this way: "If the three of us were walking down the hall together, by the end of the hall, it would be a race."
They have nicknamed themselves the "step sisters" because they track their daily steps with pedometers and compete to see who can record the most in any given week.
It all started when Kathy's former employer issued pedometers to workers in her office as part of a program to encourage more daily exercise. Kathy saw how tracking steps motivated people, and she enjoyed being part of a challenge to rack up miles.
So she bought pedometers for her sisters and offered to set up a spreadsheet to track each of their steps.
Thus, the competition began.
Pattie, a night emergency-room nurse at Henrico Doctors' Hospital, thought she would have an edge because of all the walking she did at work. But Kathy was walking several miles a day.
"We started walking, and it was very surprising to me how little I walked compared to her," Pattie said. "Mary and I looked like slugs when we were reporting in to Kathy."
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Health fair in Hampstead highlights fitness, holistic medicine
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HAMPSTEAD Roclyn Porter pressed a button to inflate the two lungs on display at the Hampstead Health Fair yesterday.
"One is a healthy lung and the other is the equivalent of smoking a pack a day for 16 years," she said. "The black on the lungs is tar and it doesn't inflate fully. Most people are freaked out. It's a nice visual."
Porter works for Family Mediation and Juvenile Services and explained the organization uses the lungs which are from pigs not humans for tobacco education. Her display was one of 36 different health-related groups at the Hampstead Middle School yesterday.
Nearly 300 people came to the fair, from children to seniors. Organizer Berny Longbook said the Hampstead Health Fair has become a community event after running for 11 years.
"Every year we see the same kids," she said. "They've grown up with the fair. It's become a family affair."
And each year, more local businesses want to participate. This year, the fair had new holistic health options, including Merrimack Valley Acupuncture and a reflexologist, who analyzes different parts of the body.
"There's a lot of networking that goes on at the fair," she said. "That's something the vendors tell us they like."
One booth had a flat-screen TV and Kinect video game system, set up by Ted Curtin, owner of Hampstead Health and Fitness Center.
"We have a kids' fitness center," he said. "They learn to exercise and also to do interactive fitness video games. It's a workout, let me tell you. I'm out of breath."
The children at the event lined up to play a track and field game, running, jumping and throwing in place. Jeremy Wyckoff, 10, of Atkinson threw the longest javelin in the game.
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