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Wright Way: What’s Your Motivation? 10/30/2013 04:40pm • Editor’s Note: This sponsored health and fitness column is written by Virginia Wright, founder of BbG Fitness, which offers group fitness classes around Arlington. Sign up for a free class today. Let’s face it — practicing healthful behavior can seem like a chore so Start managing your meals to avoid extra holiday pounds 10/30/2013 03:08pm • Lisa Reed, special to wtop.com WASHINGTON - When you work hard all year to stay fit and live a healthy lifestyle, you can't afford to backtrack when the holidays come around. Fitting in your workouts and managing your meals -- between all the holiday festivities -- will help you to stay on tra You don't need 'cardio' to have a healthy heart 10/28/2013 11:47am • Josef Brandenburg, special to wtop.com WASHINGTON - "But what do you do for 'cardio?'" It's a question I get from doctors when I tell them I don't incorporate traditional cardiovascular exercise in my workouts -- yet still manage to maintain low blood pressure and a low resting heart rate. I Fitness tips to get ready for your wedding day (Video) 10/22/2013 03:31pm • WASHINGTON - It takes a lot of energy to plan a wedding, while also balancing life's other obligations and demands. Just make sure your fitness routine doesn't slip through the cracks. D.C.-area fitness expert Lisa Reed has a plan on how you can get in top shape for your big day. Declare a Wright Way: Exercise Routines 10/16/2013 11:35am • Editor’s Note: This sponsored health and fitness column is written by Virginia Wright, founder of BbG Fitness, which offers group fitness classes around Arlington. Sign up for a free class today. Most kids are naturally very physically active. Just watch small children for five The five morning habits of successful people 10/15/2013 04:52pm • WASHINGTON - Early to bed, early to rise could make you even more successful, according to a report. Those who wake before dawn are in the company of CEOs, government leaders and other influential people. Margaret Thatcher was up by 5 a.m. every morning, Frank Lloyd Wright rose at 4 a.m. and Dis An old exercise is making a comeback at the gym 10/14/2013 05:25pm • WASHINGTON - It's long been the least popular cardio machine in the gym -- passed up for the treadmill, stationary bike and elliptical trainer. The ergometer, or rowing machine, is gaining new fans. "It's the most indispensable piece of cardio equipment in the gym," personal trainer Fairfax Hac 5 strategies to feel great in your favorite Halloween costume 10/14/2013 01:05pm • Josef Brandenburg, special to wtop.com WASHINGTON - Are you planning to dress up for Halloween? Oct. 31 is one day out of the year where many enthusiasts show more skin than usual -- and feeling comfortable in your costume really helps to make the holiday more fun. The good news is, if you foc A leg-and food-focused fall workout plan 10/08/2013 03:22pm • Lisa Reed, special to wtop.com WASHINGTON - It's not time to cover up, just because the weather is cooler. Fall is the season to break out the tights, leggings and boots. Get your legs in top shape for the season with these workouts -- and food -- tips. I recommend doing two-to-three sets of Self-limiting exercise: Have safer, more effective workouts 10/06/2013 08:15pm • Josef Brandenburg, special to wtop.com WASHINGTON - Good form and good posture do the same thing for your body. Both take the stress off of your joints and shift that stress to your muscles, making for an all-round better workout. And, yes, that does mean poor posture and sloppy form are less Vogt's single in 9th lifts A's over Tigers 1-0 10/06/2013 04:48am • By JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - A pair of Oakland rookies, one heralded and the other a relative unknown, provided everything the Athletics needed to tie their AL division series with Detroit at one game apiece. Stephen Vogt hit a bases-loaded single in the ninth inn Pure Barre Fitness Studio Opening On Elm Street 10/01/2013 01:50pm • A Pure Barre fitness studio will be the first new tenant in the Shoppes of Bethesda (4930 Hampden Lane). The shopping center on Elm Street has gone through a wave of turnover in the past few months. The Pure Barre is taking over the spot of the Bundles of Cookies shop. The studio uses ballet ba The stiletto workout: Preventing and treating pain from high heels 09/30/2013 05:19pm • Lisa Reed, special to wtop.com WASHINGTON - High heels, kitten heels and platform heels. No matter the shape, heels are a common item in many wardrobes. And while heels add to your height -- and your outfit -- they can wreak havoc on your feet and can even cause chronic pain. According to a Friday, Sept. 27, 2013 09/27/2013 10:19am • Falling temperatures don't have to mean rising scales Download Daily Dose with Dr. Oz Raking leaves is a great whole body workout. (Thinkstock) 8:10 p.m. - Chris Chase of USA Today Sports, plus George Wallace and Chris Cichon, WTOP Sports Downl 8 tips for reducing muscle soreness 09/23/2013 11:19am • Lisa Reed, special to wtop.com WASHINGTON - If you hit your back-to-workout routine just as the kids went back to school, chances are, you could be feeling a bit sore now. But don't let that hinder your progress. Here are eight ways you can reduce muscle soreness. Move your body: The last t