Category: Fitness

  • Aging Brains Take In More Information, Studies Show

    Memory Loss – Aging – Alzheimer’s Disease – Aging Brains Take In More Information, Studies Show – Health – NYTimes.com May 20, 2008Older Brain Really May Be a Wiser BrainBy SARA REISTAD-LONG When older people can no longer remember names at a cocktail party, they tend to think that their brainpower is declining. But a…

  • 12 Essential Rules to Live More Like a Zen Monk

    12 Essential Rules to Live More Like a Zen Monk “We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.” – Thich Nhat Hanh I’m not a Zen monk, nor will I ever become one. However, I find great inspiration in the way they try to live their lives: the simplicity of their lives,…

  • Tyson Cecka Parkour Sampler

    Parkour 07 Short Sampler Here is a short (~1m) sampler I put together for a few different sites, the first time I’ve actually had a time restriction on an edit. The footage at the beginning is all old video memories, and the footage after that is a mix of FloShizzle, the K-Swiss commercial, the Tokyo…

  • 7 Essential Tips to Make 2008 Your Best Year Ever

    7 Essential Tips to Make 2008 Your Best Year Ever The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt As I reflected on this past year, I realized that 2007 has been perhaps my best year ever. It’s funny, because that’s what I thought about 2006, but my…

  • Aging: Walking Faster and Outpacing Death – New York Times

    Aging: Walking Faster and Outpacing Death – New York Times Aging: Walking Faster and Outpacing Death By ERIC NAGOURNEY Published: November 20, 2007 Researchers who followed the health of nearly 500 older people for almost a decade found that those who walked more quickly were less likely to die over the course of the study.…

  • Running Efficiency: It’s Good, but How Do You Get It? – New York Times

    Running Efficiency: It’s Good, but How Do You Get It? – New York Times Economy can make the difference between being fast and being slow, between winning and losing in swimming to skiing, cycling to speed skating, running to rowing. But economy is baffling. It seems to be physiological, but it is not clear what…

  • FITNESS TOOLBOX: 60+ Health & Fitness Sites

    FITNESS TOOLBOX: 60+ Health & Fitness Sites FITNESS TOOLBOX: 60 Health & Fitness Sites September 11, 2007 — 02:19 AM PDT — by Sean P. Aune — Share This health & fitness All college freshman fear “the freshman 15? – those 15 lbs you gain in the first month of college. Or you’ve just moved…