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Boost Your Rear View
Keeping up with “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” is always a workout. But this season, the cast of the Bravo show is really making the audience sweat with a pair of duelin...
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Digest More Than a Meal
People love discussing every aspect of food — except where it goes once it’s been chewed up and swallowed, says chef Rock Harper. The D.C.-based “Hell’s Kitchen” cha...
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A Mom-Mobile
Back before Megan Odett was married and had a baby, one of her favorite things to do was ride her bike around Washington. Today? One of her favorite things to do is ride her b...
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Work Your Tail Off
Zoom Room seems like the sort of place that would offer Pilates. Customers entering the spotless studio that opened last month in Rockville are tempted with a display of organ...
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Let’s Move (the Dates)
Instead of staging the NBC4 Health & Fitness Expo (Nbc4healthexpo.com) right after people make their New Year’s resolutions, the station is trying something different th...
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Time Savings
No matter what, you’re going to lose an hour on Sunday. But you can make up for lost time if you get a move on. So after you’ve reset your clocks, I have another errand fo...
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Time to Make the Move
CrossFit, the epically popular strength and conditioning program, is obsessed with numbers. How much can you deadlift? How many pull-ups can you do? How quickly can you get th...
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Sisterhood of Exercise Pants
Ferrall Dietrich has never been much of a shopper. She and her family have always preferred spending time in the great outdoors — hiking, camping, biking. But when she moved...
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Heels Off, But Clothes On
Everything is a negotiation in Washington, even the creation of a pole fitness program at Balance Gym. Instructor Amanda Schmidt insisted that the classes be included in the m...
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Some Foods For Thoughts
We love our hearts. But what are our brains — chopped liver? Neal Barnard, an adjunct associate professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine ...
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The Home Team
Some people take a car to work. Some people take Metro. And others take a few steps down the hallway. “I just roll out of bed in my pajamas,” says Christina Grolman, a con...
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Baltimore Pride Is in the House
If you want to see what you look like standing in the Ravens’ training facility, you don’t need to go to the Ravens’ training facility. You can go to the Under Armour Br...
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After the Crash
The first question that came to Sadie Dingfelder as she was biking near Union Station last week was this: “Is he going backward?” Turns out the answer was yes, and a split...
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Kick Back, But Don’t Relax
In a muay thai match, you never want your opponent to know what’s coming next. Jerome Wilson is taking a similar approach with his gym, DCBFIT, which opened last week near t...
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Library of Progress
At Stroga, the Adams Morgan boutique gym, students have been able to bicycle their legs while doing crunches, and to change gears by switching from kettlebells to medicine bal...
