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Easy Steps To Avoiding Gym Rage ... Have you heard about this recently? Many of us go through this at our local gym or fitness centre on a regular basis and are become increasingly frustrated...

10 Health Fitness Tips ... The health and fitness industries are making billions of dollars every year on herbal supplements, fitness equipment, gyms, and special diets... Here are some tips for both health and fitness that will help you lose weight, discover ways to maintain a better healthy lifestyle, and be in the best shape of your life – all the smart way!...

Hitting The Bottle, The Water Bottle, That Is! Staying Hydrated During Senior Work-outs ... As dehydration sets in, the blood capacity is lessened, and the ability of your blood to carry oxygen is depressed. Persisting in a workout while dehydrated can cause a dip in blood pressure, dizziness, nausea, or fainting, essentially the symptoms of heat exhaustion...

Window Shopping Is A Competitive Sport – The Ins And Outs Of Mall Walking ... There are a number of benefits to mall walking. Malls are not subject to the weather...

5 Quick And Easy Fun Ways To Get In Shape ... Getting and staying in shape doesn’t have to be dull and boring! Try some of these fun fitness activities to make your workout time more enjoyable....

Making a logging-road in the Maine woods is called “swamping” it, and they who do the work are called “swampers.” I now perceived the fitness of the term. This was the most perfectly swamped of all the roads I ever saw. Nature must have coöperated with art here.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

There is some of the same fitness in a man’s building his own house that there is in a bird’s building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as birds universally sing when they are so engaged? But alas! we do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have built, and cheer no traveller with their chattering and unmusical notes.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

Critics generally come to be critics not by reason of their fitness for this, but of their unfitness for anything else. Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were a crime, and counsel should be heard on both sides.
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)