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Body for Life $1 million challenge voting until November 11

Fitness Daily — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 19:56:30 +0000

The Body for Life challenge is down to 15 contestants all vying for the $1 million prize. Body for Life has become famous for their challenges and the amazing body transformations that participants undergo.

Cheryl Muhr is one of this year’s 15 finalists, currently leading the women’s vote. Cheryl weighed 157 pounds when she started the challenge with 29% bodyfat.

Today she’s 129 pounds and 12% bodyfat. That’s a loss of 30 pounds of fat and a gain of 2 pounds of muscle in twelve weeks. The results speak for themselves.

Fitness Daily recommends the following books from Amazon.com on Body for Life.

Woman loses 200 pounds at the YMCA

JM — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 12:38:45 +0000

It was either get a wheelchair or get in shape.

Teen is a model for weight loss

JM — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 19:05:37 +0000

At age 14, Elizabeth Coburn found out she was borderline diabetic. That was the just the spark she needed to lose 40 pounds and work on getting in shape.

Although her goal is to lose 40 more pounds, she is gearing up to serve as a role model starting in September for children enrolling in the new Pediatric Weight Control Program sponsored by Decatur Memorial Hospital and Decatur Family YMCA.

Read Elizabeth’s story here…

Smarter eating, exercise paying off

JM — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 17:40:15 +0000

Sensible dieting, exercise helps a group of South Floridians take off the weight.

For the last month, Sheri, 49, has worked with a team at Memorial Regional Hospital Fitness and Rehabilitation Center in Hollywood. On the team: a registered dietitian, a fitness trainer and a “lifestyle coach,” who focuses on food issues and coping strategies.

And the result …

“I feel terrific,” says Sheri, who lives in Hollywood. “I have more energy, too.”

Read the whole story…

Chain-smoking, beer-guzzling fat guy rides into shape

JM — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 16:06:49 +0000

Mike Magnuson was a chain-smoking, beer-swilling 255 pound creative-writing professors two years ago. He quit smoking and beer cold turkey, started riding his bike and exchanged food for three protein shakes a day.

Today, the 41 year old Magnuson has dropped 80, rides up to 70 miles a day and competes with an amateur racing team.

“Heft on Wheels: A Field Guide to Doing a 180” is a book he wrote about his transformation, and which has received 4.5 of 5.0 stars at Amazon.com.

Read an article about Magnuson in the Houston Chronicle…

Article: Could Lance win a marathon?

Fitness Daily — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:13:41 +0000

If this week feels like “Lance Armstrong week” at A&FD, its only because of our extreme admiration for what he’s done and accomplished. MSN Health posted an article recently pondering how Armstrong would do in a marathon. The opinion of the experts differed between 2:10 and 2:40. The article spends some time explaining VO2 max and the different body types required for cycling and marathon running.

A marathoner simply has to get his skinny aerobic butt to the finish line as fast as possible. If he encounters hills along the way, that doesn’t much change the physics involved. A Tour winner has to mesh colliding worlds. He needs to be fit, lean, and strong. The five- to six-hour peloton rides demand a high level of aerobic fitness. The mountain climbs require serious pedal pushing, but from a lean frame. If you carry too much weight, gravity pulls you backward. A Kenyan 10,000-meter runner on a bike might perform quite well in the Pyrenees. But the same Kenyan would get crushed in the time trials, which demand brute power. I happen to live in the same community as bicycling’s Olympic sprint champ Marty Nothstein, and I’ve seen him compete. His 6′2″, 215-pound body dwarfs his bike as he attacks the pedals in a piston-pounding frenzy. To win the Tour, a rider has to be one-half Kenyan and one-half Nothstein. And that’s a rare breed. “You have to be an unbelievably superb athlete to do it all,” Swain says. “We’re talking one in a million.”

Read the entire article on MSN Diet and Fitness…

Article: Make peace with your body

Fitness Daily — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:04:00 +0000

From an early age, women are taught to idolize the thin, flawless women that appear on magazine covers. The reality is that each woman’s unique genetics makes achieving the “model figure” an all but impossible dream for most women. Rather than continue to beat yourself up for your inability to achieve the unachievable, maybe its time to look at things differently.

Maybe it’s timeâ€”finallyâ€”to take a big step back. Maybe it’s time to try to regain some of the carefree confidence of that girl (you) who ran around so comfortably in her young body. Here are nine ways to make it happen:

Read the whole article on MSN Diet and Fitness…

News: Lance Armstrong wins the Tour de France

Fitness Daily — Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:38:14 +0000

Number Six.