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This website (collectively, the "Website") are offered by Goodbye Couch Pty Ltd (collectively, "Goodbye Couch!" or "we" or "us") to you, the user, subject to your acceptance of all the terms and conditions set forth below ("Terms of Use"). The terms "you" and "user" refers to all individuals and entities that access the Website.

Information on the Website

Whilst every effort is made to update the information contained on this Website, Goodbye Couch! does not make any representations or warranties, whether express, implied in law or residual, as to the sequence, accuracy, completeness or reliability of information, opinions, data and/or content contained on the Website (including but not limited to any information which may be provided by any third party) and shall not be bound in any manner by any information contained on the Website. Goodbye Couch! reserves the right at any time to change or discontinue without notice, any aspect or feature of this Website. Reliance on any information provided by Goodbye Couch! or others appearing on the Website by invitation or as visitors is solely at your own risk.

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General

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Reasonableness

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Olympic Runner Tommie Smith Holds Track Meet to Combat Obesity 

More than 40 years later, Smith is still involved in track events. He even joined WTTG Fox 5 News to update us about the Second Annual Tommie Smith Youth Track Meet, an event to help combat childhood obesity.

Sourced from
http://www.myfoxdc.com/


Couple plant trees for exercise, environment

Why: Tree planting is an all-around conditioning exercise. You are carrying and using the 25-pound stake pounder. It also has aerobic elements such as digging the hole, removing trees from their containers and jumping up and down after you smash your thumb with the hammer.

Sourced from
http://www.sfgate.com


Exercise: good for body, spirit

Haddayr Copley-Woods, who has a MS, commuted from work downtown Minneapolis to her Powderhorn residence on a bicycle she has modified to hold her crutches

Sourced from
http://www.startribune.com/


The Power of a Gentle Nudge

Unable to push herself to exercise, Ruthanne Lowe joined a research study aimed at motivating the sedentary with a surprisingly simple technique—an occasional telephone reminder.

The study, conducted by Stanford University, belongs to a growing body of research showing that small amounts of social support, ranging from friends who encourage each other by email to occasional meetings with a fitness counselor, can produce large and lasting gains..

Sourced from
http://online.wsj.com


Exercise never gets old for UNLV professor

Golding, who is 84 now and still teaching.

In 1976, he was lured to UNLV, which was starting a new exercise physiology program.

The group exercised, again, every day. Nothing complicated. Stretching, sit-ups, swimming, running, step exercises. Golding led those exercise sessions himself for 33 years.

A couple of the study's long-term participants had similar views.

Pepper, 64, said he can "still do my age in push-ups." He credits the daily exercise with his general physical fitness.

Hoyt, 71, said his cardiologist recently told him he didn't need to come in for a checkup every six months, as he had been doing. Hoyt seemed so healthy, once a year was fine.

"Mine, too," Pepper said.

Sourced from
http://www.lvrj.com/news

Diabetes diagnosis spurs man to become triathlete

At the age of 36, the furthest thing from Andy Holder's mind was being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.

"Type 1 diabetes is an auto-immune disease, so there is nothing I did to bring this on myself, but people with a predisposition to Type 2 diabetes, their future is in their hands and that's through diet and exercise," Holder said. "Nobody wants to have this disease, but it's up to you to make sure your lifestyle is such that you can prevent it from happening."

Sourced from
http://www.elpasotimes.com

St. Albert man counts himself lucky to have been born in the Netherlands

[Brandenbarg, who recently celebrated his 77th birthday] He started exercising in the early 1960s after a work-site accident... His doctor recommended he start following the 5BX (Five Basic Exercises) program, developed for the Royal Canadian Armed Forces.

"A lot of people don't realize if you get moving, even just walking, you would be so much better off," Brandenbarg says. "People have less sickness, fewer back problems if they work out, but too many are couch potatoes. They say, 'I'm just an old person.' "

The truth is, it's never too late to get off the couch and start being active, even if you weren't lucky enough to be born Dutch.

Sourced from
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/health/

Davison dentist Kip Litton has transformed himself from sedentary middle-ager to successful marathoner

"My goal was to do like three miles," Litton recalls. "I made it a little over a third of a mile before I got so dizzy that I started to fall off the treadmill. I had to grab the handrails to catch himself. I was completely out of shape. It was just ridiculous."

"That was nine years and 50 pounds ago, seemingly in another lifetime."

Litton now regularly races marathons....

Sourced from
http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal


Getting you fit for life

In what seemed like a split second, the father-of-two had gone from being an active sportsman with a job that took him all over the country working on outdoor sites to being totally paralysed from the chest down.

Sourced from
http://www.falkirkherald.co.uk

Recommended

The Heart Foundation and other leading authorities recommend at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity on all or most days of the week. This can be accumulated in bouts of ten minutes or more if this is more convenient.

The Heart Foundation
Web Article

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