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Summer Stretch: Your shoulders and back

Because flexible muscles make everything easier and less tiring. Today, we'll relax, stretch and strengthen your neck, shoulders and upper back. To make them feel and function better. To keep them from creating pressure on your lower back. This is a great 1-minute exercise.
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Time for Jackson Glacier

$25 for a 1-week all-access pass to 700 miles of hiking trails in Glacier National Park. Through a landscape carved by two million years of glaciers. It's National Parks Week. Time to think about a Better Cheaper Slower summer adventure.
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When humans walked the Earth every Day

It's Earth Day. Get back to where you once belonged. On your feet. We've been walking upright for a few million years. It's how we got places. Your highly evolved body still expects you to be walking everywhere. So many Ways.
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Summer Stretch: your calves

Because flexible muscles make everything easier and less tiring. Today, we'll stretch and strengthen your calf muscles. Three minutes to counteract lower leg muscle shortening and to stretch and strengthen dozens of small muscles that keep you upright.
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The Walk That Ate Boston

Paul Revere covered 18 miles. On horseback. Take this 11-mile footpath. Places to go. Things to eat. Four or five hours. 1,500 calories to burn. My Google Map pinpoints 12 great places to eat Better and Cheaper. No baked beans.
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Top 10 Reasons To Take A Hike

Let's take a walk or a hike. Today's Way's not just any hike. It's every hike. Not just a trail. A path. Yup, the Top 10 Reasons To Take A Hike. Plus many Ways to get started. Great Outdoors Weather is Coming Soon.
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Glacier Hiking: A Limited Time Offer

Let's quietly contemplate the beauty of an exhausting, 5,000-calorie-burning 13-mile hike in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Get out there and do it while the glaciers are still there. You've got until 2030, maybe.
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Hoppin’ mad

This is not the Easter Bunny Workout. No, this is about maintaining your bone density, bone strength and bone mass. Maybe even improving one or all of the above. Who cares? Ladies and gentlemen. Ladies care most.
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The Walk That Ate Tapas

Centuries before BCS Walking & Eating Extravaganzas, folks strolled the streets of Sevilla, Spain to eat tapas. One small dish at each bar. Then around the corner to the next bar. It's not clear if the tapas tradition existed before Columbus set sail from Seville to discover the New World's chile peppers, tomatoes and corn.
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Virus, immunity & exercise

I adapted this from a Way I wrote about the flu. It's about building your immunity in general - by exercising. There's no way to know today if it's specifically relevant to the coronavirus variants. But we do know that exercise is a good thing for a lot of reasons. So it's worth a shot. If you'd like to pass this on, please do - it's accessible to everyone; no subscription necessary. Stay healthy.
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