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Project Resolution Rescue: SMART Goals Instead of Resolutions

Most resolutions are simple statements involving a change someone would like to do sometime in the coming year, or before February in some cases. Too often they are vague, generic hopes without any stated specifics.
If you are going to take your goals serious you’ve got to treat them as you would any project or task that is important to you. The first step is deciding and being clear about what it is you intend to accomplish. One of the best ways to do this is to make your resolutions real goals and apply the acronym SMART to them.

S- Specific: If you were going to remodel your kitchen you’d have a very good idea of what you wanted done before any work was started.

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Beat the Winter “Blahs” with Exercise

Feeling a post-holiday letdown? Tired of shorter days and early nights? Wondering how you can get through the dark months as you pine for summer sunshine? Fear not. You can walk—or jog, run, or lift—your way to a brighter mood with exercise.

When youre feeling low, moving may be the last thing you feel like doing. As Sir Isaac Newton pointed out, an object at rest tends to stay at rest. But increasingly, science is proving that if you can peel yourself off the couch and put one foot in front of the other, youll feel better, both about yourself and the world.

So how do you make this happen?

Working out cheers up your body chemistry.

When youre physically active, your body releases natural chemicals that actually make you feel good. Neu

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Exercises to Work Your Trapezius Muscle

Is your upper back feeling sore Thats probably your trapezius muscles talking. Often reduced to the name traps, these muscles get cramped when you hunch over at a computer for a long time. Find out how you can stretch and strengthen these muscles with exercise

What Are the Trapezius Muscles

Your trapezius muscles are just as big as they sound. They span all across your upper back and frame your spine. They taper off just about where your bra closes – right where your lower back begins. So it’s no stretch of the imagination to see where it would be easy to get these muscles all in knots.

You can try heating packs to unlock the knots, but that’s only a band-aid fix. You r

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Are You Still Falling for This Myth?

They’re at it again. “They” being the unscrupulous fitness marketers that tell tall tales to make their products sound better. The most recent one I’ve come across is for the Perfect Sit up, which by the way is designed for doing crunches, not sit ups. It comes from the same inventor of the Perfect Push Up(as if that exercise alone wasn’t perfect enough!)

The commercial claims it will work your “lower abs.” Not you’ll feel it in the lower part of your abs but it will “activate the hard to reach, deep lower abs” as if you have a muscle in your body who’s name is specifically “Lower Abs.” The problem is you don’t have lower abs any more than you have lower hamstrings or lower glutes.

The coveted, well publicized six-pack muscle group is the rectus abdominus. T

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