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Functional Fitness Defined

training to improve strength, flexibility, and coordination during specific tasks (e.g., running, kick-boxing, dancing, figure skating, golf) as opposed to traditional training that focuses on one muscle group at a time, but may ignore habitual muscle recruitment patterns that may occur during a desired task.

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Stay on form while working out

Published September 7, 2008, 12:10 am, Provo Daily Herald

The weight room can be a confusing place for gym-goers. Often armed with too little information about how to handle weight and cable machines and free weights, they are ripe for making blunders -- and it can cost them, leading to major and minor injuries. We asked five Southern California trainers: What's the worst mistake you've seen people make in the weight room?

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Senior Notes

Published September 6, 2008, 11:44 pm, The Frisco Enterprise

The following is a list of activities and events at the Senior Center at Frisco Square for the month of September. 10:30 a.m.—12:30 p.m.

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Students need not sweat new gym class at Weeks

Published September 4, 2008, 2:24 am, The Des Moines Register

For students at Weeks Middle School, the days of being picked last for kickball in gym may be over.

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NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 3 September 2008

Published September 3, 2008, 1:31 pm, SpaceRef

All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below.

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Physical Therapist Erik Moen, PT, CSCS, Heads For Beijing With US Paralympic Cycling Team

Published September 2, 2008, 11:08 am, Medical News Today

Physical therapist Erik Moen, PT, CSCS, will be heading to Beijing as part of the US Paralympics Cycling team. As the team "soigneur," he will perform therapy services such as therapeutic massage for the athletes. Moen will discuss his experiences in a blog featured on http://www.apta.org/consumer, the consumer Web page of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA).

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Exercise retrains brain and body of stroke victims

Published September 2, 2008, 5:18 am, TechJournal South

BALTIMORE, MD - Research shows improvement even years post-stroke People who walk on a treadmill even years after stroke damage can significantly improve their health and mobility, changes that reflect actual "rewiring" of their brains, according to research spearheaded at Johns Hopkins.

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Exercise on a treadmill helps stroke survivors years later

Published September 2, 2008, 3:10 am, News-Medical-Net

New research has found that exercising on a treadmill helped stroke survivors improve their mobility and physical conditioning.

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Form & Fitness Q & A

Published September 1, 2008, 10:42 pm, Cyclingnews.com

Got a question about fitness, training, recovery from injury or a related subject? Drop us a line at fitness@cyclingnews.com . Please include as much information about yourself as possible, including your age, sex, and type of racing or riding.

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Knee deep: A few solutions for pain exist short of replacement surgery

Published September 1, 2008, 10:12 pm, The News-Press

It often starts with just a flash of pain, nothing you want to bother seeing a doctor about.

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Fitness calendar

Published September 1, 2008, 9:21 pm, Asheville Citizen-Times

Submit entries at least two weeks in advance to Fitness Calendar, P.O. Box 2090, Asheville, NC 28802, e-mail to melmoore@CITIZEN-TIMES.com or fax to 251-0585.

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  • FK.UK -> FuncKey Forum: functional fitness in uk. Many a british crossfiter lurk there. Interesting posts on suppliers and equipment.

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