Exercise

Yoga for Workaholics

Even if you love your job, spending 40-plus hours at a desk every week can sometimes lead to more than just a headache; it can also be a pain in the neck, shoulders, back, feet, and eyes. Being chained to your desk starves your extremities of blood, oxygen, and other fluids, resulting in tight muscles and stiff joints. But before reaching for the industrial-size bottle of ibuprofen, try these poses from Karin Wiedemann, yoga instructor and director of Urban Yoga in Washington, D.C. She suggests spending 3 minutes every 2 hours doing the following moves to relieve some tension.

Yoga for Cancer Patients Provides Benefits of Sleep, Vitality

Touch toes. Downward dog. Breathe. It’s a yoga routine that cancer doctors have prescribed for years without evidence it would do much good. Now the biggest ever scientific study of yoga finds their instincts were right.

While yoga doesn’t cure the disease, its stretching and breathing exercises did improve sleep, reduce dependence on sedatives and help cancer patients resume the routine activities of everyday life, according to a 410-participant study being highlighted at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual meeting in Chicago next month.

At-Home Workouts: Get Fit Without Breaking the Bank

After a day of smiling and asking nicely at work, the last thing I feel like doing is navigating the five o’clock rush at the gym. Plus, between eating, sleeping, spending time with friends, and getting my fix of four hours of TV, I seriously lack the time and energy to hoof it to the gym and back. In search of a way to combine my leisure activities with a wallet-friendly plan for toning up and feeling more energized, I went hunting for an at-home workout routine.

KIDS - No More Excuses - Make Fitness Work for You!

Check out these exercise challenges and solutions:

  • I am too busy.

    Try exercising after school, or pick a time that works best for you each day. It's up to you to make the time and effort.

  • Exercise bores me.

KIDS - Why Fitness Matters

Exercise is an important part of a lifetime of good health! Exercising is also fun and is something you can do with friends. Regular exercise provides both mental and physical health benefits.

Leg Exercises - Bodyweight Squats

Balance - 5 Minute Yoga Exercise Video

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A Doctor's Story of Pancreatic Cancer & Yoga

Diagnosis: Pancreatic Cancer
Joseph Semmes, M.D., took the axiom "Physician, heal thyself" to heart and started doing yoga.

As an emergency room physician in Portland, Maine, Joseph Semmes was more accustomed to treating patients than being one. But at age 46, Semmes was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer. He underwent two operations and seven months of chemotherapy, then returned to an Iyengar Yoga practice he had started years before when going through a painful divorce.

Exercise improves quality of life in cancer

Regular exercise helps to improve the quality of life for breast cancer survivors.

Phys Ed: Does Exercise Reduce Your Cancer Risk?

Finnish researchers recently concluded that, if you wish to ward off lung or gastrointestinal cancer, you might want to spend your leisure time jogging instead of picking berries, mushroom gathering or fishing. In the study, published in late July on the Web site of the British Journal of Sports Medicine, scientists studied the health of a group of 2,560 middle-aged Finns over the course of about 17 years. The subjects, all men living in eastern Finland, kept diaries of their daily activities for a year and then went about them.

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