Healthy Habits (iPhone Health App Review)

Review: Staying healthy is impossible without good habits. The Healthy Habits health app (iPhone) gives you the support and structure to develop new habits.

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Run Better With a Hovering Robot Partner

A helicopter drone that flies ahead while you run could give you motivation to exercise, stay fit, and run better.

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Five Ways to Develop a Personal Yoga Practice

In a previous post, we looked at the benefits of having a personal yoga practice. Here are 5 ways to start developing your own practice today. Find a yoga teacher The fastest way to a personal yoga practice is with the guidance of a yoga teacher. He can work with you to develop a sequence of poses, breathing and meditation that fits your needs, goals and restrictions (e.g. injuries). As you work more often with your teacher, he can adjust your practice to keep you progressing. If you attend a yoga studio, ask if the teachers offer private lessons. You can also find yoga teachers through...

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Stop Telling Me What To Do: Personal Yoga Practice

Learn the secret that yoga teachers don’t want you to know, and set your practice free. Would you do any of the following? Play your guitar only when your teacher is directing you. Balance your checkbook only in math class. Go jogging only with your running coach. Do yoga only in a group class. Yoga has become such a hot commodity in the West that it’s fallen into the same marketing trap as other forms of exercise, like aerobics and spinning–people think they can only do it in a group class while a teacher is directing them. If your guitar teacher asked you to pay him every time you...

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