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What Do You Say to a 5K?
It can be rewarding to train for a long-distance race, such as Sunday’s Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run or the 2013 Marine Corps Marathon (which sold out in a recor...
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Gonna Need a Bigger Cart
Vitamins at pharmacies usually come in pill form. But at the new Walgreens “Well Experience” flagship store in Chinatown, customers can try the chewable kind — from a to...
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Is This Connection Failing?
My wife is constantly texting and doing other stuff on her phone. We’ll start talking at dinner, and then she’ll get up and go for her phone. I know this is not a common c...
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Winning Pair
Running-shoe companies want you to lace up their newest innovations. Find out which of these styles is the right fit for you. Don’t know where to wear it? We’ve got the id...
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Physical Therapy
Adapted from the new book “My Parent Has Cancer and It Really Sucks” ($15, Parenthascancer.com) by Express columnist Marc Silver and his daughter Maya Silver Before soccer...
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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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Somebody’s Got to Do It
My husband has been unemployed and job hunting forever. He is immensely talented but bad at the nuts and bolts of making things happen and has not been diligent about getting ...
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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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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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Stay in School. Or Don’t.
I’m trying to decide whether to go to grad school after college. I know I’m interested in being a therapist but also can’t imagine getting a Ph.D. when I am already so b...
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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 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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Trouble With the Swing Set
My fiance and I are friends with a couple. Lately, they’ve been hinting that they want to get intimate with us. Yes, in that way. At first I thought they were kidding, but t...
