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Savina wins third nationals
NOT many 11-year-olds can boast about being a three-time Australian champion in their favourite sport, but Redland Bay's Savina Simatovic has recently picked up her third national title in physical culture, commonly known as physie. The Faith Lutheran College student beat 80 girls from around Australia to claim the 11-year-old champion's trophy at the nationals held at Olympic Park in Homebush Bay on November 25 and 26. Savina, who was also named national champion last year and as a seven-year-old, said she "felt really excited" to win for a third time. "I was hoping to get a place and I thought I'd do well," she said. Savina's mum Gina said she was "thrilled" at her daughter's victory. "It's just an amazing achievement," she said.
FITNESS CLUB - Will I improve faster if I exercise everyday?
Regular exercise will help to improve your health and fitness. The ideal number of exercise sessions that we should do each week depends on the components of fitness that we want to develop, as well as our individual fitness goal. For most persons, a frequency of three to five days of exercise sessions each week is recommended. This will improve our blood pressure, heart rate, blood circulation and endurance. If we have more than two rest days between our exercise sessions, we are less likely to benefit from the improvements. There can be some improvement in our heart and lung function with less than three days of exercise each week. However, such improvement is likely to be minimal to modest at best. Likewise, very little body fat is likely to be lost overall. Exercise sessions are recommended for every other day, especially for those who run or jog.
Trigger Golf to showcase three trainers at PGA Merchandise Show
AUSTIN, Texas -- On-course golf swing optimization is now possible, while you play, with the revolutionary Trigger resistance trainers. After much testing of golf teaching professionals to average golfers, great benefits can come from just 60 seconds of stretching exercise tubing attached to your golf club. .
Study: Exercise May Help Prevent Breast Cancer
(CBS13) We've know that exercise is good for our mental and physical well-being. But as Dr. David Marks tells us, a new study shows it might also help women protect themselves against breast cancer. Caroline Durham's reasons for working out are both physical and emotional."I think the main reason is that I wanted to just feel better about myself and just feel like I look better and feel like yeah I still got It," says Durham.But those workouts may also protect her from getting breast cancer down the road. A report in the archives of internal medicine shows regular vigorous exercise like a cardio machine can lower a woman's risk of getting the disease.We usually equate exercise with helping the heart. It does so by improving the cardiovascular system. But how working out protects against breast cancer has more to do with the amount of body fat a woman has.Fat produces the hormone estrogen.
AOL: Happy Holidays, 450 Of You Are Out Of A Job
AOL laid off more than 450 employees at its corporate headquarters Wednesday as part of plans announced earlier this year to cut costs and change the company's business strategy. The Dulles company said it was not cutting as many jobs locally as originally anticipated. In August, AOL executives said that about 1,000 of the 5,000 jobs to be cut worldwide would be local. Including Wednesday's cuts, AOL has eliminated fewer than 600 positions in Northern Virginia. "In August, we were making a preliminary estimate based on very early information about how the company's new strategy would affect our structure," said Andrew Weinstein, a spokesman for the company. "When we worked through the implications of the new structure, we found there were fewer jobs on the Virginia campus that were impacted than expected." .
A wedding, '24'-style? Watch out for that salad
"I tend to play extreme women who blow real hot and cold, and I don't in my own life. I'm actually much nicer than that," chuckles Malick as she contemplates her latest role. She plays Jane, high-strung mother of the bride in the new ABC comedy series "Big Day" -- sort of a matrimonial answer to Fox's "24," chronicling 24 hours of an extravagant backyard wedding. "I find it's a great cathartic character to play because she is just wired so nutty ... she just gets out of her mind crazy over these tiny, little nutty things," says Malick, best known for playing the outrageously neurotic fashion maven, Nina Van Horn, on "Just Shoot Me." "I think oftentimes I play women who kind of stand up and make fun of those of us who take ourselves too seriously, and we all do sometimes.
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