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A study at the College of St Catherine in Minneapolis found that up to 70% of recreational runners suffer from leg injuries or stress fractures. Most of these are caused by weak or tight muscles in the hips and can be corrected by adding strength and stretching moves to your routine!!

Wow — this is a water shocker that is going to blow your mind. We have all heard that turning off the faucet while we brush our teeth and shortening our shower times to save water…..

….but did you know that eating less meat has a much more dramatic effect on water. So go with Meatless Monday and save WAY MORE WATER for the Earth than you would have if you didn’t shower at all for 6 months!!

Regular activity protects your body from cancer and can reduce your risk of colon cancer by up to 40%

More women die from heart disease each year than men. SURPRISED?? A study published in Circulation found that most people underestimate the risk of heart attacks in women

Get your legs moving!! It takes 2 hours at 4MPH to burn off a Burger King Whopper — no cheese, no sides, no giant soda.

So the elusive six pack. It is that time of year and people are all in the gym focusing on getting ripped.

Here is a bit of reality. Abs are possible for anyone. But it takes work to eliminate fat from your middle.

Depending on your genetics, you can have great abs as a woman with around 18% body fat and a six pack with just a few percent lower. Remember genetics play a part here. If you hold your weight in your ass, lucky you, your abs will show up sooner. If you hold it in a tummy pooch, it will take a lower total percentage to see them.

For men, who tend to hold their weight around their middles, this percentage is more like 11-12% to see decent abs and for some men, it takes as low as 8 to really have a 6 pack.

Watch your diet and take care of yourself and work out and of course you can achieve this but great abs like anything else in life don’t come from wishing for them.

Many commercial and restaurant breakfast options are calorie overloads that will kill your weight loss goals every single day. Take some time to make good food choices about breakfast.

No time?? Lay it out the night before. It doesn’t take much to make a mini bagel with a vegetarian sausage slice and a fat free cheese slice. Balanced and around 200 calories. Pair it with a ready to drink muscle milk light or a skinny latte to boost it up to around 300 calories and you have a nice filling breakfast that beats an egg mcmuffin any day of the week!!!

Hitting a plateau? There are a few things that cause this and you need to understand that all of them can be fixed.

First, are you keeping a food diary?? This is the first question I ask everyone complaining about not losing weight. How can you get where you are going if you don’t know where you are?

Next, are you overestimating your exercise? Are you calling yourself active when you really are not all that active? Using apps like Tap and Track for the Iphone are AWESOME to track your food and activity but you need to be honest. Most people work SEDENTARY jobs.

While we are on that — are you active? A couple times a week is not really going to cut it. Are you doing something active every single day?

Once you are actually doing all of these, then you can start to look at any more remote options.