Health and Fitness

Are you a member at a local swimming pool? Lucky enough to have a pool in your own backyard or complex?An occasional swimmer at your gym’s pool? As bathing suit season peeks around the corner, it’s a fabulous time to get into swimming shape. Here’s a workout that can be completed by intermediate to advanced swimmers (and even novices with a little practice and modification). This was written for an Olympic-sized pool (50m) but can be adapted to a 25-m or 25-yd. pool. If you don’t have a ton of time, you can cut the workout in half and still do the sets in the order they are written.

You’ve heard the horrors of abdominal fat - people who carry their weight in their stomachs have a greater risk for cancer and many other diseases. How do you know if you fall into this category? Use this simple calculation.

Everyone knows it’s easy to gain weight over the Holidays. Christmas parties and yummy treats seem to replace exercise and healthy food. Once high calorie foods are in our view it’s hard to get them out of our head.

Although most people admit going off their diet this time of year, we still act shocked at how fat we feel by New Year’s Day. Did we really eat that much?