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Healthy body, healthy mind! Physical Exercise, Fitness, Running, Jogging, Gym and Activity. Twitter Hashtag: #GymEd Curated by Peter Mellow |
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Do you have an important project in mind? The 19th-century philosopher’s approach is still timely today.
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What kind of person cycles from Perth to Sydney, all while trying to break a world record? Ellen Leabeater follows Kristina Rivers journey
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Setting goals is one thing. Achieving them another. We’ve distilled the research down to 12 goal-enabling tips.
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These achievements aren’t about productive self-improvement. They’re designed to make the pursuit of joy a deliberate practice.
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What Larios achieved is what I call a Big Pointless Goal: an aspiration that lacks grand purpose, yet requires substantial effort to attain. (An editor of mine also calls these “stupid quests.”) Many other examples are less extreme. The journalist Kim Cross once attempted 100 wheelies a day for 30 days on her bike. The professional runner Rickey Gates traveled every street in San Francisco. A friend of mine is making a five-foot-long rocking triceratops—think a prehistoric-themed rocking horse—in order to fulfill her childhood dream of riding a dinosaur.
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Inactive people started moving more if they received daily step targets that exceeded their usual number by about 500 steps.
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Inactive people started moving more if they received daily step targets that exceeded their usual number by about 500 steps.
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Falling off the keep-fit wagon in February is as much a cliche as jumping on it in January – here, three experts explain how to boost your chances of staying on track
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For years, I was the person who kept paying a membership to a gym I never went to. But sabotaging my exercise plans came to an end when I shifted my focus, writes Madeleine Dore.
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Exercise practitioners are taught to help us set goals to get active. But the way we set goals may be unhelpful, or worse, make it even harder for us to exercise.
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In a conversation they have had countless times since his reading disability was diagnosed in elementary school, a mother and her teenage son search for ways to set goals and “do something that really distinguishes me.”
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I set the goal for myself two years ago, when I competed in New York City's 5th Avenue Mile, a 20-block sprint along Central Park, and clocked a solid 6:32. Then and there, I vowed I would be back on that course, speeding my way to a sub-6:30 mile.
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Entering a running event is a great way to get fitter - as long as you prepare first
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We're determined to make 2013 the year we stick to our health and fitness goals by taking small, simple steps toward ditching empty calories and finding ways to keep exercise fun. (We listed 52 "paths to fitness" here ).
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LIFE can get bloody cluttered. There are, of course, many chores and time-consuming, tedious tasks we have to do merely to keep things in some semblance of order; a necessary and self-preserving bid to stave off entropy. These are the things Patrick White's eponymous hero in Voss, Johann Ullrich Voss, evocatively lamented as ''the trivialities of daily existence''.
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New research shows that intrinsic motivation thrives when you focus on your immediate experience rather than the end game.
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Goal setting: Pick and event and then start training with a buddy.