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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is an increasingly common occupational hazard.  As today so many types of employment involve making repetitive movements with the hands and fingers, Carpal Tunnel has become all too frequent an occurrence.  Today CTS is one of the many injuries that are referred to under the broad heading of repetitive strain injuries.  Carpel Tunnel Syndrome is the term us

Pushing yourself to reach your fitnes goals requires not only motivation but the right kind of training program.  To tone up, burn fat and look your best, many people rely on cross training. Cross training is working out different parts fo your body instead of doing the same exercise multiple times.

Even if 40 is the new 20 (how can that be?), there are certain unwanted things that come with age. Gray hair, wrinkles, and weight gain. Typically, around age 40, many people start to gain weight. There are many reasons for this, but the main culprit is hormones.

You dont need to hit the gym for hours at a time to be in great shape. If you want to minimize your time at the gym but still want to maintain or achieve a certain level of fitness, try the following:

In a time crunch we need an exercise routine that can be done at home to help you tone up?  If you don’t have time to spend an hour at the gym every day, don’t think that you can’t be in shape. Here are three toning exercises that, if done consistently, will tone you up but require very little time:

Whether you were invited to a spur of the moment party that you have to look great for or your high school reunion is coming up and you haven’t had time to lose the weight you were planning on, don’t fret. There are ways to look thinner without actually losing weight. Here are three tips:

If you are on both a budget and a diet, don’t fret. Eating healthy doesn’t have to be expensive. In fact, some of the healthiest foods can be grown from home easily or, if you don’t’ have a garden, bought cheap from a farmers market.  Here are a few ideas for cheap and healthy ingredients to add to your shopping list:

Many people turn their weight loss or fitness efforts to a concept called Body Mass Index, or BMI. Body Mass Index measures your overall fat percentage on a fixed scale after specific measurements are taken. After considering these measurements and how they stack up to your weight and height, a number is assigned.

Wheatgrass may not seem that appealing if you have never tried it before, but it packs a lot of punch in a very small amount of liquid.  Not only a drink for the health nuts, but everyone including bodybuilders can benefit from this drink.

It’s a pleasure to watch a sport being played, but there are some people who enjoy playing it more. I belong to this category and depend on racquetball to give me my daily high. Playing releases me from the tensions of daily life; it rejuvenates me and gets my adrenaline soaring; and it leaves me feeling good, strong and fit. But best of all, it has helped me lose weight.

If your goal is to not only build muscle and lose fat but to just be healthy, take a good look at your diet. Some of the foods that you think are healthy may be hurting you. Here are five foods that you likely label as healthy or a light snack but in fact are harmful to your body:

The health effects of soy have been noted for many years. It continues today to be one of the healthiest foods that you can eat for a variety of different reasons. Men tend to eat much less soy than women do, although the effects of it for them can be extremely positive.

A rock hard stomach can only be achieved one way – by good old fashioned exercise. There are no magic pills or fancy machines that do the work for you, it&undefined;s up to you to make it happen. Many people fall into the trap of buying expensive equipment that fails to deliver results.

Although strength training is a common activity that is associated mostly with males, women are starting to realize the benefits of it.  Strength training involves any kind of resistance training - usually using weights. Here are three benefits of strength training for women: 

Still going strong after fifty years, the oral contraceptive commonly called The Pill is still the most popular form of birth control used among women. Over the fifty years it has improved and now it contains less hormones which translates to less hormones.

Tennis elbow, or lateral epicondylitis, is one of the most common injuries treated by physiotherapists. The exact cause of it is unknown but it does stem from overuse of certain muscles in the arm.

New mothers that are anxious to get back to exercise and get rid of their left over pregnancy fat do not have to wait long before beginning to exercise. Granted, you may not have much time, but physically it is not harmful to start exercising even two to three days after the baby is born.

If you are always looking for better ways to eat, consider soy if you don’t eat it already. Soy is one of the most heavily studied foods, and many studies have thoroughly examined its many health benefits. Here are five such benefits to eating soy:

Tired of working out the same way over and over again each week.  Now that the better weather is coming out, it&undefined;s time to switch it up a bit.  Cross training is much more effective for muscle development, weight loss, cardio and physique. 

Everyone has their problems areas when it comes to toning up and losing weight. Difficulty losing weight in these areas is caused by numerous factors including our eating patterns, lifestyle habits, and genetics.