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How to Motivate Yourself to Work Out When It's Dark and Cold 10/10/2016 08:00pm • Every time fall comes around, and it gets darker and colder, I go through the same challenges: I feel lethargic and uninspired to work out. I find it harder to start the day and just as hard to attend yoga classes at night. It's all too tempting to just put on sweatpants and stay in bed watching Net 7 Exercises You Can Do Now to Save Your Knees Later 10/05/2016 08:00pm • Don't wait until you're hobbled to actively protect your knees.You have healthy knees -- and you'd like to keep it that way. That's not a job you can tackle sitting down, though getting into a 90-degree position could help. First, though, you'll want to heed a simple but central lesson roughly adapt Are your eating habits hindering your health goals? 10/05/2016 09:45am • While it's certainly true that food quality is a critical component of health, eating habits are just as important. You may choose nutritious foods, but if you race through meals, multitask while eating and practice other unhealthy eating habits, your body and health goals may suffer. Let's start 8 foods every runner needs to lose weight 10/03/2016 08:30am • When you're running for weight loss, putting one foot in front of the other is only half of the equation. And when we say "half," we really mean more like one-fourth. Maybe one-third. That's because, while running certainly burns calories and the right running program can also build muscle to hel How Gratitude Can Make You a Better Athlete 09/28/2016 08:00pm • We tend to wait until momentous occasions -- say, Thanksgiving or a birthday -- to look outward and acknowledge all that we've got and all that we should be thankful for. In other words, to cultivate an "attitude of gratitude." This feeling, however, is often short-lived. Twelve days after our birt 10-year-old Va. golf prodigy shines on international stage 09/28/2016 03:12am • DULLES, Va. — Results in youth sports can be misleading. Little League home run leaders aren’t necessarily destined for superstardom in the big leagues. The fastest, strongest athletes in grade school are often simply those who have grown up a little quicker than their classmates, enjoying a ph Prepare Your Credit Cards for Holiday Shopping 09/27/2016 08:00pm • It doesn't seem like it can be that time of year already but -- believe it or not -- consumers around the globe will soon be breaking out their credit cards and getting started on holiday shopping lists. There are many reasons to favor your credit cards over cash when it comes to holiday shopping. U. Md. police investigate after naked man interrupts student's workout 09/26/2016 07:23pm • WASHINGTON — University of Maryland police are investigating reports of a naked man on campus who interrupted a female student's early-morning exercise routine and attempted to work out alongside her. The student, who was working out in the plaza area of the east side of Tawes Hall called polic 9 apps that save you money on almost everything 09/22/2016 08:00pm • You already know that a smartphone can do so much. You can use it to take calls and pictures. It's a tool for staying in touch with old friends and making new ones. You can even record all of your thoughts in whatever format you prefer from a 140-character tweet to a 140,000-word novel. What many pe Careers Take Flight at the Air Force Academy 09/22/2016 08:00pm • As soon as he knew he'd be attending the U.S. Air Force Academy, Christopher Steele began rigorous workouts to ease acclimatization to life at 7,000 feet. Still, he found the transition challenging. So too was the pounding on the door at 0400 to roust him for basic training. At the U.S. Air Force Ac Little-known reasons for eating (good) carbs 09/21/2016 08:00pm • In order to perform your best as a runner, you need to eat the right kinds of carbohydrates at the right times. That's because carbohydrates are the major precursor of muscle glycogen, one of the major sources of "fuel" for running. However, this does not tell the whole glycogen story. Glycogen's ro Do's and Don'ts of Investing in Private Companies 09/19/2016 08:00pm • "High risk, high reward" is a phrase commonly used to describe the world of private investing, where the money bypasses Wall Street for Main Street, Silicon Valley or any locale where promising ventures bubble up. This is a landscape glowing with potential, yet littered with heartbreak, so it helps 10 Ways to Shift Your Mindset for Better Weight Loss 09/18/2016 08:00pm • Every diet and weight-loss strategy has its pros and cons, but for any one to really work, you've got to get your mind right. "Shifting your mindset about how to lose weight is the biggest factor in losing weight," says NYC-based therapist Kathryn Smerling. "We can't shift our weight from the outsid Finding Fitness Through Faith 09/18/2016 08:00pm • If the body is a temple, Steve Reynolds was a "temple-trasher." The senior pastor of Capital Baptist Church in Annandale, Virginia, inhaled a tub of ice cream nightly, didn't exercise for decades and swallowed eight medications for diabetes and other diseases related to his weight daily. At 340 pou How to be the new kid in fitness class 09/16/2016 09:00am • First-day jitters As a professional dancer-turned-personal trainer, Brynn Putnam lives and breathes fitness. Still, she's not always comfortable attending classes in new cities while traveling. "I find it very challenging to show up at a gym and put myself through a workout -- and that's what I