Celebrate Independence this Month Across the Health and Wellness Channel
July 23, 2008 by Liberty Kontranowski
Filed under Blogosphere, Health, Theme Days, Web
In case you didn’t get enough reading in with today’s Healthbolt Carnival, here’s some more for you. It’s Theme Day around the Health & Wellness Channel, and this month we’re all about independence. Check out what our fellow bloggers had to say:
Gloria at Cancer Commentary gives us Freedom from Cancer- What does that really mean?… Speaking of freedom, in the context of cancer…what does freedom really mean? The definition varies from case to case, from person to person, from one’s perspective to another.
Pink Ribbon Review blogger Karen Lynch recaps the dependent days that followed her double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery …read more
Okay, Bigshot: How Many Push-Ups Can YOU Do?
July 22, 2008 by Liberty Kontranowski
Filed under Abs, Endurance, Exercise, Fitness, Health, Womens Health, Your Body, men's health
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The push-up: it’s said to be a great indicator of good health since it uses many major muscle groups. It’s also the do-anywhere exercise that requires nothing other than your own body weight. That said, push-ups should be the go-to exercise for the whole human race, right?
Yet for many people, they’re so darn hard to do.
According to a recent NYT article, the average 40-year-old woman should be able to perform 16 push-ups, and the average man of the same age should be able to do 27.
So we want to know…
How many push-ups …read more
