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Go for a walk even when the weather is really cold your body has to work overtime to get warm and you may burn up to 50 more calories than you would on the same walk in summer. But remember, go a little slower until you get warm and keep up the hydration. If you find it hard to get motivated to exercise in winter just think of spring and how much harder it is to get back into shape rather than maintain your fitness throughout the winter. Be aware of tendonitis and stress fracture if you don t exercise in winter and expect to pick up where you left off after a whole winter with no exercise. Instead of picking up a cup of hot chocolate to keep yourself warm, try a herbal beverage. Gain an interest in indoor sports as opposed to cycling and jogging outdoors. Don t forget that swimming at an indoor pool is an option for a great cardio workout. The cold air and indoor heaters can dry out your skin. Make sure you drink at least 8 glasses of water each day and use moisturizers throughout winter. Buy some indoor plants to soften up the...

Shin splints is a very common ailment that affects athletes but can also occur in the non-athletic individual. It is an inflammatory condition occurring either in the front of the lower leg or in the back. The cause for each is different. Typically, with shin splints, a person will be doing some kind of athletic endeavor walking a long distance would qualify , and begin to notice soreness in the lower leg, either in the front or back of the leg. The more the person moves the more the condition worsen. Should the person stop, the pain will diminish somewhat only to worsen once the activity is resumed. Anterior shin splints, or pain in the front of the lower leg, may be more prevalent running on hard surfaces, or running or walking down hill. After the heel hits the ground, in gait, the foot should slow down in order for the front of the foot to hit the ground. People with a tight heel cord Achilles tendon , do not allow the foot to slow down so the muscles that control the forefoot and originate in the front of the lower leg are...

Remember when you first discovered magnets. They defied gravity. If you pried one piece loose and then let it go, it snapped home. You read, objects that are attracted by magnets have similar properties, and thought, yeah, like attracts like. In school you learned why. You learned to think about bigger magnets and then you learned concepts with isms on the ends of words. Some guys had magnetism. People were drawn to them. Mainly people like them. That explained social cliques and church groups and such. Could magnetism affect the flow of money. Power attracts power. If you were to stand on top of the World Trade Center before it was blown up and had eyes that could see the flow of magnetism you would remember your childhood experiments with magnets. And you would fully understand the natural law of attraction as well as you understand the law of gravity. Now you recognize that you are a magnet attracting like into your life. What you think and are every day is what you attract. That s a tough truth to swallow. Here s how to...