fitness

Why You May Need to Learn the Squat

Posted on 09/2/2013 by Barbara Hannah Grufferman | Best of Everything After 50 | Comments

Beauty & Fashion | Personal Health | Your LifeAfter turning 50, I noticed that my hips, thighs and other areas ‘below the belt’ were getting a bit too broad. More importantly, my bone density test showed that I was slowly but surely losing strength in my lower body as well. Not good! Motivated by wanting to look terrific in my new jeans and the desire to keep osteoporosis far, far away, I embarked on a life-changing fitness program. It incorporates the ‘three pillars’ of overall fitness: cardio, strength-training …

A Teacher Who Walked in Her Tiny Students’ Shoes

Posted on 08/22/2013 by Barbranda Lumpkins Walls | Best Life | Comments

Bulletin Today | Home & Family | WorkYou can say that Chris Cook is living her past every day. But it’s helping her to prepare a generation for tomorrow. This week, Cook, 49, welcomed nine children to her kindergarten class at the Milton Hershey School, a private boarding school on 2,640 acres in Hershey, Pa. The chocolate titan of the same name started a trust in 1909 to found the school for kids from families in financial and social need. It still covers all expenses of the …

The Woman Who Lost 100 Pounds

Posted on 07/18/2013 by Barbranda Lumpkins Walls | Best Life | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal Health | Your LifeSwimming saved DeEtte Sauer’s life. In 1986, the 71-year-old Houston resident was dangerously fat. Her day of reckoning with her condition came while on a family vacation and, weighing about 250 pounds, she couldn’t get in a boat with her kids. “I was pretty disgusted with myself,” Sauer says. “I’d let myself go and I was tired of being that way.” So she started walking. Then she started working out at a gym, where she spotted a notice about a new …

How to Beat Fitness Saboteurs

Posted on 07/12/2013 by Carole Carson | Fat to Fit | Comments

Personal HealthYou may have noticed that for the most part, my articles focus on the positive aspects of getting fit. (I have found the upside so incredible that I wonder why it took me so long to make positive changes.) At the same time, I recognize the downside: when we decide to make changes and get fit, some of us will find ourselves dealing with individuals who seek to undermine our efforts. Related: The #1 Best All-Around Exercise for Every Post-50 …

The Best Looking (Nude) Golfer in America

Posted on 07/11/2013 by Steve Mencher | News, Culture, Sights and Sounds | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthLooking every inch a champion, the great South African golfer Gary Player is in the news, as ESPN The Magazine releases photos from its upcoming “Body Issue.” The magazine will have eight different covers on news stands; the 77-year-old Player graces one of them, a pair of golf clubs his lone accessory. Why is Player posing? “My big dream now is to help people become healthy,” he tells ESPN. “Obesity, as far as I’m concerned, is the greatest problem facing the …

Why Lost Pounds Return and Bring Friends

Posted on 06/14/2013 by Carole Carson | Fat to Fit | Comments

Personal HealthAn acquaintance once said that she had lost over 200 pounds. Looking at her girth, I confess that I doubted the claim until she quickly added, “Of course, it’s the same 20 pounds 10 times.” Given the single-minded focus required to lose weight, why do so many of us (an estimated percent) regain the pounds we lost—and even add a few more? How maddening is that? Researchers are starting to explain this common experience, and their insights are both encouraging …