Advice for dancers.
I'VE JUST BEEN ACCEPTED INTO A FULL-TIME DANCE PROGRAM IN NEW YORK. BUT AS A FLIGHT STEWARDESS I FIND IT DIFFICULT TO KEEP UP A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF DANCE CLASSES. I NOTICE, TOO, THAT AFTER EACH CLASS MY BODY ACHES AND I DON'T SLEEP WELL. WHY IS THAT SO?...

Methodological Considerations for Researchers and Practitioners Using Pedometers to Measure Physical (Ambulatory) Activity.
Researchers and practitioners require guidelines for using electronic pedometers to objectively quantify physical activity (specifically ambulatory activity) for research and surveillance as well as clinical and program applications. Methodological considerations include choice of metric and length of monitoring frame as well as different data recording and collection procedures. A...

Body Norms in Lesbian Culture.
The following is adapted from an article that first appeared in the Journal of Lesbian Studies, Volume 3, Number 4, 1999. IN a number of open forums I conducted on the topic of lesbian beauty, enthusiasm and ambivalence collided to create a dynamic conversation among the participants....

Train Smart with Deep Water Running.
We are delighted to have another guest author for the "Talking About Training" feature that I usually write. As the deadline for submissions for this issue approached, I was heavily involved in pounding down to the deadline for the first draft of the textbook, Exercise is Medicine [TM] A...

RECREATION OUTLOOK.
Byline: The Register-Guard Events scheduled by the Willamalane Park&Recreation District for the week of Oct. 11. TOday, Oct. 11 Our Healthy Planet - Lane County Energy Forum, Springfield Utility Board, SeQuential-Pacific Biodiesel, Helios Resource Network will discuss fuel alternatives, green energy and more....

Photographer captures the many moods of Mount Pisgah on film.
Byline: Lewis Taylor The Register-Guard You won't see a single coyote darting across the landscape or gorgeous mountaintop sunset in Charlie Search's photographs of the recreation area surrounding Mount Pisgah Arboretum. Search, 66, is more concerned with subtle but remarkable events - a feather resting...

Best sellers.
Westminster John Knox 1. The Gospel According to the Simpsons, Bigger and Possibly Even Better! Edition by Mark I. Pinsky 2. The Presbyterian Handbook 3. Mandate to Difference: An Invitation to the Contemporary Church by Walter Brueggemann 4. I Want to...

Fitness and exercise sourcebook, 3d ed.
9780780809468 Fitness and exercise sourcebook, 3d ed. Ed. by Amy L. Sutton. Omnigraphics, Inc. 2007 663 pages $87.00 Hardcover Health reference series GV436 About half of Americans do not...

Male adolescents' reasons for participating in physical activity, barriers to participation, and suggestions for increasing participation.
Physical activity and fitness are generally recognized as contributing to enhanced physical and mental health as well as prevention of a number of diseases and other problems later in life (Blair et al., 1989; Haskell, Montoye, & Orenstein, 1985; Powell & Blair, 1994; Stephens, 1988; U.S. Department of Health...

Explaining long-term exercise adherence in women who complete a structured exercise program.
The purpose of this study was to qualitatively examine factors related to physical activity adherence to understand why women continue to participate in long-term exercise after completing a structured exercise program. Data were collected from focus groups, interviews, and e-mails, and analysis used grounded theory. The central category related...