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You might think you’re fit.
But are you ?
Find out with the President’s Challenge Adult Fitness Test.
It’s been designed by The President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, a group of volunteers who advise the government and ultimately the President about fitness, physical activity, and sports in the U.S.
It measures your aerobic fitness, muscular strength & endurance, […]
Location, Location, Location. The catch cry of real estate agents throughout the world. Turns out it’s also an important variable when it comes to your health. Check out Cranky Fitness’s post ‘Does You Hometown have ‘Issues’?’ to find out more.
X-rays as Art? Apparently so. You can find out more about contemporary X-Ray photography artists over […]
Could this be the wave of the future - human-powered energy-generating gyms.
I have a hard enough time getting to any gym. But maybe I’d be more enthusiatic if I knew that my sweat (and tears) was able to generate enough electricity to power a music system or DVD player.
There’s a guy in Seattle who is working […]
More Healthbolt approved links for you this week, all plucked straight from the blogs on the Healthbolt blogroll.
What’s that you say? You want to be on our blogroll, too? Great, just drop us a comment here or in an email and we’ll be happy to add you. As we see it, the more resources readers […]
Image details: Couple running on the beach served by picapp.com
Runners of the world, weigh in: Do you prefer getting your run on outside or inside? Pavement or treadmill? Why?
We all know some of the benefits of indoor running: adjusting incline, temperature control, a nearby TV, etc.
And outdoor running: becoming one with nature, natural visual stimulation, […]
Earlier this week Liberty and I took the Vitality Compass quiz to see where we sit in the longevity stakes.
But then we asked ’why should we have all the fun’. So we issued a Healthbolt Vitality Compass Challenge.
Here’s the brave souls who took up the challenge and not only completed the Vitality Compass quiz but also […]
After tackling the Vitality Compass the other day, I decided that week’s ‘healthy health links’ should be all about fitness…
Vital Juice Daily gives us a few tips on Wind Down Workouts
Cranky Fitness reminds us of the Top Six Ways to Feel Uncool Exercising.
That’s Fit has tips on the 7 Habits of Successful Snackers.
Medlaunches has all […]
So it’s my turn to report my results from the Vitality Compass Quiz, and let me tell you, I was not anxious to take that thing at first. I figured you’d have to be the next Arnold Schwarzenegger or Jessica Alba to score even decently on it, but after reading Liz’s results, I was encouraged. […]
I’m not one for questionaires and surveys but this Vitality Compass, an online longevity calculator, had me intrigued.
I wanted to know…was I in the Blue Zone? What was my life expectancy? And were my current life habits going to lead the way to a grand old age of 100 plus?
So I headed on over and […]
Want to know how long your longevity is?
Then head to the Blue Zones.
Set up by Dan Buettner, author of a new book The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest (National Geographic, 2008), the website offers a Vitality Compass which lets you find out how long you’ll live given […]
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