Well, it looks like Nintendo may have another spin off hit for their super hit gaming system, the Wii. When this gaming system first came out, people scoffed at the idea that game playing based around real time movement on the part of the participant would catch on. Boy were they wrong! The thing about the Wii system is that it’s fun for all ages. You don’t have to practically have a doctorate in gaming to play it and have fun, and yeah, actually do kind of good.

In the Beijing Olympics which are coming fairly soon, a double amputee has petitioned and won his appeal to compete in the Olympic competition for sprinting. The man, who is from south Africa, had to have his legs both amputated below the knee at a young age since he was born without crucial bones in his legs that would make it impossible for him to walk correctly unless they were amputated just below the knee, where most patients can walk, and run, with the help of the best advanced prothetic legs on the market today.

It is increasingly important to get Americans off their couches and moving, along with another obvious need, to get Americans educated in how to eat right and get the right foods in your diet for weight management and organ fitness and health. Well, in another attempt to help get Americans up and moving, there is a new government sponsored fitness test called the President’s fitness test, which is sponsored by fitness advisors to the president.

There is almost no better butt toner than taking the steps any time you can. Whether you’re at work and work a couple floors up, like I do, or you’re running errands of any sort of out and about at a place that happens to have stairs and elevators both, you should always opt to take the stairs.

You may think that just taking the stairs every conceivable time you can would not have a huge impact on the size and tone of your rear end, but cumulative effects of exercise do end up having a huge (no punt intended) impact on our rear ends, our cardio fitness, and our energy levels and ability to process oxygen through our lungs.

I just gardened again yesterday. And no, we’re not talking the leisurely, occasional weed picking and planting some small flowers sort of gardening, but a major overhaul of a very overfilled, weeded flowerbed in our front yard that has Japanese maples and a variety of other small trees in it which spread their leaves everywhere, making it necessary to clean the bed once every few weeks.

There are a lot of people, like myself, who are naturally blessed with great circulation. Some people, like my boyfriend for example, have really great circulation, and they can walk around in the wintertime indoors in shorts and a tshirt, while I’m struggling to stop shivering in a sweatshirt and sweat pants and socks.

When people generally stay pretty warm all the time, it usually means that either they have some extra weight on them, or that they have exceptional circulation, which means their blood circulates through their body very efficiently. It circulates to their arms, legs, and their extremities, so they rarely experience cold hands or feet, and they even stay pretty warm during periods of inactivity.

When I go to the gym at the workplace, which I’m constantly thanking my lucky stars to have, otherwise my eleven hour days 4 days a week may end up driving me crazy without a nice little workout in the middle of the day to help me through, I sometimes will split my time between the recumbent exercise bike and the elliptical machines there, just so that I can get a little reading time in without the jostling and movement of the elliptical.

I just had the most “luxurious” workout ever, I think. I did a yoga DVD with Suzanne Deason called Fat Burning Yoga, which is about a 45 minute long exercise, and then afterwards, after already being sufficiently taxed physically, yet oddly relaxed at the same time, I hopped in our new far infrared sauna for some dry heat therapy to soothe my already stretched out, worked muscles.

If you’re a distance runner, running clothes and shoes are of utmost importance for comfort and even to avoid injury. Running shoes are the shock absorber for your feet so selecting the correct kind of shoe is paramount.

When selecting a running shoe, keep in mind what kind of characteristics your feet have. If you have a high arch, you will need a running shoe with a soft heel that is shock absorbing. People with high arches have feet that tend to roll outward. Your running shoes should have neutral cushioning in addition to the soft heel.

I know, weird title for a post, right? But if you’ve read up on bowel irregularities such as IBS, or Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and other issues with the bowels not moving frequently enough, you may have come across one of the theories that is connected to constipation in people, and that is that people who are too sedentary, or in other words who do not move around enough, are often more prone to constipation. It makes sense if you think about it, because if you sit all day, you are not really “getting things moving” as they say.