Sunday’s workout featured 18 miles of joggling on snow covered, icy paths. It even had 3 incidences of slipping and falling without making a brilliant saving catch. The pain experienced and the annoyance of running so slow is starting to wear on me. Is there anything positive about being a marathon joggler [...]

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I don’t get it.
I exercise a lot. 1800 miles of joggling. 90 minutes a week of volleyball. Walking to stores instead of driving. Climbing 3 stories of stairs multiple times a day instead of an elevator. I’m a calorie burning machine.
So, explain to me how it’s possible that when I [...]

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We often talk about tea on this joggling blog because it seems to have some great benefits.
Plus, I’m too YOUNG for coffee.
Previously we discussed the reasons why drinking tea is better than water. We even saw that drinking tea plus exercising can help prevent skin cancer. But this bit of research might even [...]

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Here’s a bit of research published in the August issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource about how much water you should drink.
According to them, women who have a normal level of activity (non-jugglers) only need to drink 2.2 liters. Men probably have to drink a little more.
How Much Water
Since 2.2 liters doesn’t mean that [...]

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Here’s an article that purports to list the 8 foods you should eat everyday. They include the following on the list
Foods You Should Eat Everyday
1. Spinach
2. Yogurt
3. Tomatoes
4. Carrots
5. Blueberries
6. Black Beans
7. Walnuts
8. Oats
Of the 8 foods, I’m a huge fan of Yogurt (Yoplait Whips are [...]

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I’ve always enjoyed a good can of soda pop.  I remember fondly my high school years when my mother would send me to fill the car with gas and I’d buy a Dr. Pepper and a Snickers candy bar with the change.  Since then I’ve drunk more than 1300 gallons of soda.  Geez, that sounds [...]

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I knew there must be some benefit to all the tea I drink. Previously, we mentioned here on the joggling blog that tea is better than water.  Now, here is a new benefit that’s been discovered.
Drinking tea plus frequent running and juggling will actually help prevent skin cancer!
According to studies by Rutgers researchers [...]

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There was a great article in the July 2007 edition of Runner’s World that asks the question, what’s your ideal weight? We’ve talked about this subject a few times on the joggler blog including this post about how do you know if you should lose weight and you know you’re overweight when…
Calculating BMI
In [...]

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Imagine the scene…
You’ve just finished running one of the fastest 5Ks of your life. Elated, hands on your head, you lazily walk through the finish area. After turning in your chip, exchanging smiles and kind word with other runners, you head to the re-fueling station.
And there it is, a cornucopia of treats & [...]

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Here’s an interesting chart showing where the fattest people in the world live. Guess who’s number one?
Of course these statistics are based on the % of people in the country who have BMI’s greater than 30. We’ve written about the shortcomings of BMI in the past and have seen that is not necessarily [...]

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