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Fitness

Recent articles related to

Fitness

Become Healthier with Healthful Exercise

By Mark Morgan Ford | 01/8/2003

Keeping yourself healthy should be a priority in your life, even if it isn’t your topmost concern. To accomplish your other life goals, you need a working body and an energetic mind. You have to be able to get up early — the earlier the better — and work with…

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Your First and Most Important Resolution

By Mark Morgan Ford | 01/1/2003

This year, we are going to promise ourselves that we will accomplish something important in each area of our lives. And we’re going to make every one of those accomplishments significant. Something that will make us happy. Something we can be proud of. Something so ambitious that right now it…

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Those Early Morning Runners

By Early To Rise | 09/20/2002

  “If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison As I pulled out of my driveway onto Ocean Boulevard at 5:45 a.m. this morning, the street was dark and deserted — except for one lone runner huffing and puffing his way along…

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Staying Lean Is Everything

By Early To Rise | 06/28/2002

Take it from a 51-year-old — if you want to be healthy and feel young, there is nothing you can do that is more important than staying lean. Yes, I know. You’re thinking that I’m so superficial. That there are many more important things in life than the size of…

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How to Stay Healthy

By Mike Palmer | 05/11/2002

Dear Early to Rise Reader, I’’m writing this morning to tell you about an important and worthwhile organization that can help you and your family stay healthy…and find the best cures and remedies when you need them. MMF actually worked with this group when they were first getting started, about…

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Promise #2 For The New Year

By Early To Rise | 01/1/2002

“Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.” – Izaak Walton (The Compleat Angler, 1653) Staying healthy should be a priority…

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Thank God For Your Health

By Early To Rise | 06/19/2001

“The first wealth is health.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Conduct of Life, 1860)   I woke up this morning with an urgent sense that I should tell you something that, in a fully awakened state, I realize you already know. But obvious things are often worth stating simply because…

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Scheduling Stress Breaks

By Mark Morgan Ford | 03/20/2001

If you work as hard as I do, you will be forever on the verge of a nervous breakdown unless you do something about it. One of the best things you can do is schedule at least two (and preferably three or four) stress breaks every working day. A stress…

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“Good Health” as One of Your Life Goals

By Mark Morgan Ford | 02/27/2001

“The sense of wellbeing! It’s often with us / when we are young, but then it’s not noticed; / and by the time one has grown to consciousness / It comes less often.” – T.S. Eliot When you figured out your life goals, you pondered (or should have) the importance…

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Be Younger Than You Are Right Now

By Mark Morgan Ford | 01/2/2001

If you did not read through your New Year’’s resolutions this morning, do so now. If you did, do it again. And congratulate yourself, because you are one step ahead of half of the rest of the people in this world who made promises yesterday. It’’s unbelievable, but true. More…

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Fitness For Overachievers

By Early To Rise | 12/12/2000

“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”” – Pietro Aretino Because we’re busy people, we like to say that staying fit is not about the way we look in a bathing suit. It’s about self-confidence and performance. We want to go nonstop, alert and energized…

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The Best Exercise Routine Ever, Part 1

By Mark Morgan Ford | 05/22/2000

“The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.“– ErmaBombeck I’m filling my gas tank this morning and this guy jogs by. He’s in his early fifties and he’s in very good shape – muscular and lean. Standing still, he’d probably look…

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