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7 Tips for a Safe and Successful Strength-Training Program

Those Harvard Medical School students, who contribute to the Health Beat blog, must have read my mind. Not only do I occasionally suffer from low-back pain, but it seems like everyone I know does, too! And it’s just not “mature” individuals who feel the pain. My 30-year-old neighbor to the north has chronic back pain […]

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Want a stronger core? Skip the sit-ups

Want a stronger core? Skip the sit-ups By Leslee Jaquette Back in college PE (in the Dark Ages), I was promised an “A” if I could do 50 sit-ups in one-minute. Holy cow! How I worked for that grade. But from what I’m reading these days, sit-ups and even crunches (modified sit-ups) are out of […]