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Jerry Vance - Fitness on The Wire

Physical Fitness - Quality of LifeBeing physically fit gives you the ability to enjoy life. It's called "quality of life".With so many new types of exercise available maybe it’s time to define quality...

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Fitness on the Wire: Good Nutrition Is Important

If you have a book explaining nutrition relating to vitamin and mineral needs, read the chapter regarding what is proper nutrition for kids as well as for adults. Children don’t consider the amount of...

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Fitness on The Wire with Jerry Vance: Understanding Muscles

This week the focus is on the muscles in your body, what they do and how to strengthen them for better workouts. • Muscles that are used often will react safely to extended use, but those of you who...

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Fitness on the Wire: Thanksgiving Doesn't Have to Mean Another Pie and...

No one counts calories at Thanksgiving. However, if you do plan on diet control, you might also consider adding a little exercise to your holiday menu. Start that turkey and while everyone is still...

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Fitness on the Wire: Weight Bearing and Impact

There are two exercise terms; weight bearing and impact that can be confusing to the new exercise student. For those of you who are in the higher age bracket, bones and the chance of osteoporosis is a...

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Fitness on the Wire: Use of Hand Weights

By Jerry Vance Fitness students still carry hand-held weights during aerobic workouts with the thought that carrying extra weight in each hand while running would speed up fat loss.  It is true that...

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Fitness on the Wire: Everything Hurts

For those of you who are "new" to exercise or are about to be "new" this is what lies ahead. YOU WILL BE SORE EVERYWHERE; especially if you have never exercised anything before but your tongue. The...

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Fitness on the Wire: Water Fun with Wet Sweat

Are you a little tired of the same fitness routine? Are you hot and sweaty? Try a change of pace from your regular workout style and move your fitness into the swimming pool. Water is a wonderful...

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Fitness on the Wire: The Aging Process

By Jerry Vance CARSON CITY — It’s a fact: we get a little older every day. How we decide to handle ageing is important. Having good health is the beginning; without good mental and physical health life...

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Fitness on the wire: Biking for Fun and Health

CARSON CITY — This is a great time of year for bicycling. In fact consider taking your bike with you on vacation. We packed our bikes in our airplane, and flew to Canada with them enjoying the exercise...

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Fitness on the wire: Arms, Legs and Breathe

By Jerry Vance CARSON CITY, Nev. — Every now and then I get bored with exercise routine and I begin to experiment. After watching several of my exercise students struggling with coordination, I decided...

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Fitness on the Wire: Footstrike

CARSON CITY, Nev. — What part of your foot strikes the floor first in your sport, the toe or the heel? Are you a basketball player, a dancer, or a jogger? Do you train with a bicycle, the stairmaster...

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Fitness on the Wire: Cold Weather Muscles

By Jerry Vance CARSON CITY, Nev. — Cold weather exercise has its drawbacks. Some of the drawbacks are mental. But a lot of them are physical. Cold stiff muscles don’t lend themselves to quick fitness...

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Fitness on The Wire: Building Strength for Those Arm Muscles

By Jerry Vance The new fitness student often finds it difficult to complete a pull-up or push-up and may strain for even an inch of lift. There are good reasons why these moves are hard to accomplish....

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Fitness on the Wire: The Steps in Walking

By Jerry Vance Every day you see a few more walkers hitting the sidewalks. They travel in packs, that way they can intimidate the non-walkers, the dogs, and all non-fitness types that are driving...

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Fitness on the Wire: After Turkey Day

Jerry Vance, Sweat Shop Fitness Overeating at Thanksgiving means four days of overindulgence. It’s long enough to set a pattern for life. Thanksgiving dinner alone brings with it about five thousand...

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Fitness on the Wire: Exercise is a Lifestyle

By Jerry Vance If you just started a new sport or fitness program, chances are you jumped in without giving your body much thought. Whether you workout with an instructor or alone, you need to...

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