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A couple of rounds after work
Jeanne Brady squeegees the sweat off her forehead with her red-wrapped hands. She skips inside the ring, jabbing with a left. Thap, a right, thap. Then thap-thap-thap, wildly swinging at her trainer's mitts. When a buzzer signals the end of her three-minute round, Brady jumps out of the ring and moves onto the speed bag. Red-cheeked and breathless, she's hungry for more. "I find it relaxing," says Brady, 50, an engineer who began boxing last spring at the Ring Boxing Club in Boston to get into shape. As the gym echoes with a chorus of thadump-thadump-thadumps coming from other people, she adds, "I may be a minority here, but I'm not intimidated at all. This is fun." Brady isn't looking for a fight or to become the next "Million Dollar Baby," but she and other Bostonians are putting on their 16-ounce gloves and discovering that boxing is a good match.
Farmer launches healthy cheese
A WELSH farmer has launched a healthy organic yoghurt-cheese as a cardio-friendly Christmas treat. Sancl r Yoghurt Cheese, made in St Clears, Carmarthenshire, by Elfyn and Rhian Davies, uses British herbs and milk from their herd of 74 dairy cows. Mr Davies said, "It is a very old recipe, but produced using modern methods. It is organic pro-biotic live yoghurt with no salt added to the cheese. "It is aimed at the health food market." .
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Working your heart
How hard do I have to workout? How far do I have to go? I workout 2 hours every other day of the week and I still cant lose those last 10 pounds. Why do I keep getting injured when I try to run? These are all questions and comments people make about their training that seems to have no simple solution. I want to give you that solution. Its called a heart rate monitor. Whether your goal is to win a race or just live a long healthy life, using a heart rate monitor is the single most valuable tool you can have in your training equipment arsenal. And using one in the way I am going to describe will not only help you shed those last few pounds, but will enable you to do it without either killing yourself in training or starving yourself at the dinner table. I came from a swimming background, which in the 70s and 80s when I competed was a sport that lived by the No Pain, No Gain motto.
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