Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Health Calendar (Ab workouts)

Wednesday, Jan. 31
The price of the new football stadium for the Giants and Jets has risen by $600 million to $1.4 billion.
Dolphins advance to Saturday's state championship game. (6:20 p.m.)
Carrie Quinn is not satisfied with last season. Last year, Quinn placed fourth on the 1-meter springboard and eighth on the 3-meter springboard at the Mountain West Conference Championships in Oklahoma City.
Friday, Feb. 16
Early in the morning, Emily McDonald and Beth Grigsby meet for a one-hour workout. They hit the elliptical machines and the stationary bikes. They do squats and they bench-press. They crunch and chat at their local YMCA in Hendersonville, Tenn.
Can diet tea and an ab apparatus whittle a huge middle? Are there good exercises just for smokers? Can you lose belly fat by changing your breathing patterns? And what exercises can straighten a curvy penis? Smart Fitness answers your wacky workout queries.
Folks love to chew the fat about fat. Weight-loss strategies, goals, successes and failures are in the same small talk realm as the weather and local sports teams. It's a unifying, go-to topic; dreams of fat cell shrinkage are shared as freely as prayers for rain.