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In a Journal, Chaos and Perspective
Liz Neporent was in her apartment one block from the World Trade Center on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. When the first plane hit, she was talking on the phone with co-workers, including her husband, Jay Shafran, who were in their office just south of the Twin Towers. These excerpts from her journal, begun an hour after the second Tower collapsed, are followed by her thoughts a year later. 9.12.01 - I finally found Jay yesterday by breaking into someone's computer. I e- mailed everyone, and almost instantly my brother shot back a note saying Jay was looking for me. I was so relieved. He told me to stay put and Jay would come get me. 9.8.02 - Last night I dreamed I was falling through empty space, and I just kept falling, falling, falling. Many nights during the past year, I've dreamed of planes diving into buildings, or buildings falling, or that I'm trying to escape from a building that is about to collapse. These dreams are often full of gray ash, and sometimes the buildings look out of focus and faraway, like the backgrounds of a Monet watercolor. In them, I feel more detached than terrified.
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Weight training for dummies
Weight Training For Dummies makes it easy to get started with weight training by offering trusted and straightforward guidance on the latest circuit and resistance training, and all-new information on the highly popular bodyweight and High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). Whether you're working with dumbbells, free weight sets, or machines, you'll find out how to combine weight training with other exercise to properly strength train and get in the best shape of your life. Along with aerobic exercise and flexibility, body weight training is an integral part of a complete physical activity program. But with all the different equipment and techniques available, getting started can feel overwhelming. Want to get pumped about weight training? Consider these facts: strength training, whether via free weights or a machine, builds muscle. And the more muscle you have, the higher your metabolism and the less prone you are to injuries--in and out of the gym. Plus, strength training promotes bone strength, which can significantly reduce your odds of developing osteoporosis. If that's not enough, strength training--unlike cardio workouts like running--reaps benefits almost immediately. So what are you waiting for? Weight Training For Dummies has everything you need to get started.
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Stomach-pumping machine makes calories disappear
\"This is it for me. I've been jumping up and down in weight for 30 years,\" [Mikael Cederhag] said. \"Finally, this is a solution that allows me to get my weight down and stay that way.\" Katherine D. Crothall, president and CEO of Aspire Bariatrics, the maker of the AspireAssist, said she understood why people might find the idea of the pump \"gross\" but insisted it offered a viable way for morbidly obese people to drop pounds. \"Some people manage to lose weight on a diet, but the kinds of changes you need to make to keep it off are probably not sustainable for many,\" she said. \"There's a lot to be said for people being in the driver's seat with their own body, with their own health. This allows a patient to do that while under the care of a physician.\"
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The empathy effect : seven neuroscience-based keys for transforming the way we live, love, work, and connect across differences
\"A neuroscience-based view that argues not only that empathy is necessary for our personal happiness and planetary survival, but its essential components, how to gain them, and how to use them in any circumstance\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Reach fitness a step at a time ; Follow your plan, and stay positive
Don't wait for perfection. If you are constantly waiting for the perfect time to get moving with your program, or the perfect situation, or the perfect job, you may get left at the starting line. Sure, the perfect circumstances are helpful, but they're not essential to your success. To achieve success, it's more important to make the best of where you are right now than to have everything right. Don't trash-talk the bod. Rather than thinking negative thoughts like \"I'm really out of shape\" or \"I'm too fat,\" try turning them around into something reaffirming like \"I'm getting in better shape every day\" and \"Maybe I'm not where I want to be now, but if I keep trying, I'll get there for sure.\" It may help to post little motivational notes everywhere - on your desk, the mirror, the fridge. They'll offer constant mini-motivational boosts all day long.
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Evaluating the Personal Trainer's Training
Mr. Esquire, whose company does personal training and fitness consulting, said the trainer had recently taken a weekend stretching workshop but had scant hands-on experience. ''This is a perfect example of someone who took a little information but did not have the proper knowledge or depth of experience to apply the skills,'' Mr. [Bob Esquire] said. (The injured client sued both the trainer and the club; the suit was settled out of court, Mr. Esquire said.) The American College of Sports Medicine offers several certifications. The health fitness instructor exam is geared toward personal trainers and emphasizes cardiovascular exercise and health risk factor assessment but not weight training. The American Council on Exercise certifies trainers and class instructors. Its personal trainer exams are widely regarded as less technical, but more practical, than the health fitness instructor exam. Mr. Esquire said the National Strength and Conditioning Association's certification in strength and conditioning is considered the gold standard. It requires an in-depth knowledge of human anatomy, physiology and weight training technique. Ken Germano, executive director of the American Council on Exercise, cautioned that trainers should not dispense health or medical advice. ''The personal trainer's role is to help clients with their exercise programs,'' Mr. Germano said.
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Evaluating the Personal Trainer's Training
Bob Esquire, president of the Esquire Fitness group was working out recently in a large New York City gym when he heard a loud pop \"Everyone heard it,\" recalls Mr. Esquire \"We all turned around to see what it was.\" The pop was the sound of a woman's inner thigh muscles ripping, the result of her personal trainer's overzealous efforts to...
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Getting a Grip on a Clump of Molecules
I am plastered against the side of a large rock, 15 feet above a patch of trampled dirt in Central Park. My fingers are wedged inside a fissure. My left toe is balanced on a protrusion about the size of a golf ball and my right toe is balanced on . . . I don't know what it's balanced on. Below me my friend, Ivan Greene, the director of climbing at Chelsea Piers, shouts encouragement. ''Smear your right foot onto the rock,'' he says helpfully, ''Twist your left hip in, stand up, and grab that giant knob just above you.'' I'm trying to ''boulder,'' a form of rock climbing that involves more lateral than vertical movement. Unlike sports climbing, the type of climbing in which you scale a wall, bouldering involves no ropes, harnesses or carabiners (hooks that connect climber to rope). All you need is a pair of climbing shoes with sticky rubber soles, a bag of chalk to powder your hands for a better grip and a willingness to fall.
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