Weighted Toys May Help Burn Calories

Doctors and health advocates have warned for years that American children are getting fatter. Now even some kids' teddy bears are packing on the pounds.

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New Urban Designs Sought in Obesity Fight

It'll take more than public service campaigns to solve the nation's obesity problem, according to fitness experts who say neighborhoods must be designed so people can get around without their cars.

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Exercise Suggested for Menopause Symptoms

Once at the mercy of hourly hot flashes, Margaret Corino has been keeping them at bay with regular trips to the gym.

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Study: Yoga Helps Breast Cancer Patients

Women going through treatment for breast cancer felt better when they tried yoga, according to one of the first scientific studies of its kind.

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Report: Restaurants Should Shrink Portions

Those heaping portions at restaurants — and doggie bags for the leftovers — may be a thing of the past, if health officials get their way.

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Educators Promote Weighing Students

It's been two years since Arkansas schools started sending letters home to parents with their kids' report cards — letters telling them if their children were fat.

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Cordless Jump-Rope Can Help the Clumsy

If you think keeping fit is merely mind over matter, Lester Clancy has an invention for you — a cordless jump-rope. That's right, a jump-rope minus the rope. All that's left is two handles, so you jump over the pretend rope. Or if you are truly lazy, you can pretend to jump over the pretend rope.

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Runners Promote Jogging Backward

Timothy "Bud" Badyna has broken world records. He ran a marathon in under four hours. He finished a 10K race in 45 minutes.

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Exercise a Challenge for Saudi Women

Under their modest flowing robes, two-thirds of Saudi women are too fat. They can try dieting, but you won't find many in aerobics classes or power-walking along this city's walking trails. And very few of their daughters attend schools that have physical education classes.

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Skateboarding Showing Up in Gym Class

The kids at Douglass Elementary School already had a climbing wall and a zip line in their gymnasium. Then their P.E. teacher learned to skateboard.

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Supermarkets Urge Families to Dinner Table

For working parents and heavily scheduled school kids, family mealtime is as out of fashion as the scene in Norman Rockwell's iconic Thanksgiving supper painting. Supermarkets are trying to lure families back to the dinner table.

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World Children Exercise to Fight Obesity

As children exercised in unison in school yards across the world Wednesday, sweat flowed, calories burned, and, perhaps some lives will be saved.

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Online Video Brings the Gym Home

Tired of the commute to the gym? Embarrassed to be seen sweating in public? Bored with your workout video?

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Schools Struggle With Requiring PE

At Moore Elementary School, fourth-grader Michael Turri looks forward to 30 minutes of jump-rope at the start of the day.

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Art Lovers Perform Yoga in Museums

It may seem like an ordinary art lecture for the visitors viewing a watercolor titled "Moon and Cumulus Cloud." But the listeners are sitting on exercise mats and wearing sweats.

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Fidgeting in Classroom May Help Students

The fidgety boys and girls in Phil Rynearson's classroom get up and move around whenever they want, and that's just fine with him.

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Study: Pumping Iron Helps Cancer Survivors

Weightlifting appears to improve breast cancer survivors' outlook on life, suggests one of the first studies to scientifically measure the effects of such exercise.

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Study: Exercises Can Prevent Fainting

Feeling faint? Cross your ankles. Squeeze your knees. Grip a ball. Simple muscle-tensing exercises like these can keep you from passing out, say researchers who did a scientific study of the problem.

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Coffee May Spell Heart Trouble for Some

Here's a real caffeine jolt — heart attacks might be a risk for coffee drinkers with a common genetic trait that makes caffeine linger in their bodies, a study suggests.

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Study: Lifting Weights Attacks Belly Fat

By just lifting weights twice a week for an hour, women can battle the buildup of tummy fat that often takes hold with aging, a new study suggests. And they didn't even diet.

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Condoleezza Rice Shows Gym Routine on TV

Besides being the Bush administration's go-to official for working out diplomatic misunderstandings, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is also happy to let the world know she's working out at the gym.

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You're Never Too Old for Dodgeball

Some 36-year-olds hit the golf course to unwind; Pearl Lin prefers fine-tuning his back flip.

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Early Lunch Periods May Breed Bad Habits

While many office workers were taking their coffee breaks, 14-year-old Michelle Pagan was having lunch. Not that she was ready for her peanut butter sandwich and bag of pretzels at 10:20 a.m.

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McDonald's: Fries Have Potential Allergens

Not long after disclosing that its french fries contain more trans fat than thought, McDonald's Corp. said Monday that wheat and dairy ingredients are used to flavor the popular menu item — an acknowledgment it had not previously made.

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How Not to Be a Glutton at Olympics

After four courses and as many wines in the home of the slow food movement, up came a plate of unctuous, sweet panna cotta.

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Are you marathon material?

Going the distance isn't for everyone. Of 106 first-time marathon hopefuls embarking on a 20-week training program, 75 dropped out before the tenth week of training. Thirty-one completed training and crossed the finish line of the race.

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Myths Surrounding Hair Loss

It's surprising to realize that many guys that have male-pattern baldness don't even know what causes it. This article breaks it down once and for all.

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You Don't Have To Be Lance Armstrong To Bike Cross-Country

A very insightful and interesting article about a goal I've considered attempting for a few years now. A must read for any fitness oriented person, or anyone seriously considering such an undertaking

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Cheap pedometers too inaccurate, frustrating: study

Cheap pedometers are too inaccurate to be used in public health campaigns, because they give the wrong feedback, doctors warn. Pedometers are an exercise accessory to help people clock every step, and keep them motivated to boost fitness or lose weight

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Ironman Part 3: Is He Alive or Dead? Has He Thoughts Within His Head?

For Part 1 click here and for part 2 click here. Now lets get on with the show:

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Ironman Part 2: Can He Walk At All Or If He Moves Will He Fall?

If you missed Part 1 here it is. Now for part 2:

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Respect the Race: Everything You Wanted to Know About Ironman Part 1.

The original rule sheet said it all: Swim 2.4 Miles, Bike 112 Miles, Run 26.2 Miles and Brag for the Rest of Your Life. PART 1 HAS HE LOST HIS MIND? CAN HE SEE OR IS HE BLIND?

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Gazelle Exercise Equipment Recalled

Gazelle Exercise Equipment Recalled About 154,000 Gazelle Freestyle Crosstrainer and Gazelle Freestyle Crosstrainer Pro Gliders, manufactured by Fitness Quest Inc., are being recalled.

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Vacanze estive a tutto Nordic Walking

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Idle Awhile? Exercise May Reverse Harm

New research shows that middle-aged, overweight adults who have been sedentary for six months can overcome the negative health effects of inactivity with just six months of exercise.

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Losing muscle

It takes hard work to gain muscle. Lot of effort at the gym and lot of attention to nutrition after the gym. A bodybuilder's worst nightmare is to lose muscle mass.

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Fun Pastimes: First Bike Ride of the Season

What a beautiful day for a bike ride: temperature in the seventies, low wind speed, and scuttling clouds that occasionally part to let in bright sunshine. I was moved to go for a ride on my bike for the first time this year.

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Revamp Physical Education

More and more schools are getting rid of physical education because of budget constraints. They claim that other, more important aspects of school need the funding that PE gets.

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Did 'Fat Man Walking' cheat?

NEW YORK - He became America's hero, a flawed man with a massive belly and a headful of demons. Fat Man Walking, as Steve Vaught referred to himself, embarked on a cross-country journey to discover why he was unemployed and depressed, and weighed 400 pounds.

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10 rules of the ultimate workout

Get fit.

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Part 2-Interview With the World's Strongest Man

If you missed Part 1 here it is Now here's the second half of my conversation with WWE Superstar Marc Henry:

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The WWE's Mark Henry-Talking Smack with the World's Strongest Man Part 1 of 2

This massive Texan man-mountain tips the scale at 380 pounds, wears Shaq-size shoes and hoovers 5000 calories a day. Mark Henry has rocked the worlds of powerlifting, Olympic weightlifting, and the WWE.

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Bar room debate: What sport has the best athletes ?

If you're a sport fan, who follows multiple sports, you have probable been engaged in the following debate. Professional sports require players who have to be at very high levels of physical fitness for their sports.

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Walk a Quarter-Mile or Die

Told you walking was good for you

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Confessions of a Man on the Run: Everything you Wanted To Know about Running Clubs But Were Afraid To Ask

Whether you’re running to sweat off a few pounds, prepping for a marathon, or just jonesing for a fit way to meet active and attractive people, running clubs might be right up your alley.

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Lose Weight in Your Sleep

Another reason to throw away your Gym subscription? Not really!

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Baby Boomers Stay Active, and So Do Their Doctors - New York Times

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Wake Up with the King... and a Triple Bypass

As a person in my early 20's, I've begun to take note of how amazing my body is.

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Jock Up Your Horizons Part 2: How to Hit a Homerun, Spike a Volleyball, and Drive a Race Car

HIT A HOMERUN

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Gary Roberts gets Physical

Gary Roberts is like a Terminator machine driving a Hummer hopped up on Energizer batteries.

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