Here’s another gadget for fitness geeks.
The Life Fitness Premium Digital Pedometer is easy to use and has the following features…

Display readings include steps, aerobic steps, calories and distance

Dual acceleration sensor enables use even when sitting in a pocket or purse

Security strap attaches to clothing

A seven day history enables you to review an entire week of exercise

Automatic energy saver to extend battery life

It’s just the thing to make sure you’re hitting the recommended  10,000 steps a day mark.
Want it?
Then leave a comment by20th Dec and tell us how many steps you think you do every day. Then if you win the …read more

Results were mixed on which would be the best Detour Runner Bar. Chocolate Chip seemed the most popular but the Lemon Yoghurt and Chocolate Peanut Butter were a close second and third.
But the winner of the ‘one-month supply of Detour Runner Bars’, according to my trusty random number organizer, is….
Steve
who said ‘I just started training for a half-marathon in May. I think the Peanut Butter Chocolate bars would be a good energy boost’.
Congratulations Steve. You should be getting an email shortly with directions on how and where to provide your mailing address.
And good luck to you with the half-marathon. …read more

 
Okay, I’ll be honest. I don’t usually spend much time checking my heart rate when exercising. I’m usually too busy simply trying to keep breathing and not collapsing.
But I’ve just discovered a gadget that would probably let me do both. It’s the  Timex Ironman Race Trainer, a heart rate monitor system that allows the user (exerciser) to wirelessly download their workout data. Once downloaded, you can then analyze the information to find out how to improve and enhance your workouts, track your progress and attain any fitness goals you have.
Here’s what you get with the Timex Ironman Race Trainer …read more

Watching what’s happening on Wall Street and following the politicians as they try to bailout what they are calling a crisis that could have catastrophic results for all Americans and the world, I am starting to have a recurrent dream of living out my ‘golden years’ as a bag lady sleeping under an apple tree.
Retirement might just become a thing of the past. But for some, retirement has never been an option.
Why?
Because they love their jobs too much to give them up.
Case in point – Mildred Heath. She’s 100 years old and still working in a career that she started …read more

Illusionist David Blaine has been hanging around, upside down for the past couple of days. You can find him at the swinging in the breeze above the Wollmann ice rink in Central Park, New York.
Its a stunt that requires a great deal of endurance, focus, and might I add, stupidity.

Medical, hanging up side down for long periods of time is simply not a good idea. It can mess with the heart and cause the blood pressure to rise. There’s increased risk of brain haemorrhage, seizures, and blindness because of all the blood pooling in the brain and skull. It can …read more

What a phenomenal run America had in the Olympics this year, and what an amazing go-round athletes from around the world had overall. Lots of records broken (something about some Phelps guy, I dunno) and lots of reason to celebrate.
So, we want to know…did you watch the Beijing Olympics, or did you skip them? If you watched, what was your favorite event? If you could, would you love the opportunity to compete in the Olympics yourself? In what event? Let us know…

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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

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Finally, sleeping after no sleep for three years – most new parents expect that their sleep will be disturbed, at least during the first few months after having a baby. But imagine ‘no sleep for three years’. That’s the case for the Lamb family of St.Petersburg, Florida.
 Their son Rhett suffers from chiari malformation , a structural defect that puts pressure on the brain stem which controls vital functions such as sleep, speech, circulation, and breathing. But thanks to experimental surgery designed to relieve this pressure, Rhett (and his parents) are now sleeping…
Unable to Forget – although most of us would …read more

I suddenly realized that Liberty and I have just passed our 5 month anniversary as Healthbolt bloggers. Wow, how time flies when you’re having fun. And it is fun. Getting to research and post on all the interesting, informative, bizarre, and oddball health and medical things is like a dream come true…
I did some maths and five months working on ‘the Bolt’ equates to around 250 posts between us. That’s a whole lot of words.
My choice for Top 5 Posts…
Doing a Hasselhoff…new medical slang and it’s companion piece Pumpkin Positive – more medical slang would be my all time favorite …read more