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Heart Transplant Recipients Can Improve Fitness And Perform High Intensity Workouts (Medical News Today)

Heart transplant recipients' cardio-respiratory fitness is around 30 to 50 per cent lower than age-matched healthy sedentary individuals. As a result, exercise rehabilitation should be very important to these patients, and a University of Alberta study shows they can improve their overall physical fitness.

Miami Lighthouse for the Blind shows teens the value of fitness (Miami Herald)

Leon Stewart peddled the stationary bike as hard as he could, as though each revolution of the wheels could put a little more distance between him and his disability.

Gerges St. Pierre Covers Inside Fitness (TheScore.com)

In stores now you will find Georges St. Pierre on the lastest cover of Canada fitness mag "Inside Fitness". Prior to his showdown this weekend St. Pierre goes dons the August/September '09 issue which features an exclusive block of training coverage for the sport of MMA , which includes St-Pierre's strength and conditioning training program and an in-depth interview with MMA training guru Greg ...

Local fitness trainer explains why all diets die in new book (The Reminder)

EAST LONGMEADOW That New Year's resolution you set way back in January may be coming back to haunt you right now, in the time of hamburgers, hot dogs and ice cream. That ambiguous goal of losing weight set during the time of drifting snows may seem like a dream.