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Better Cheaper Stronger: Chest Press

We've worked on your biceps with the Curl; your triceps with the overhead extension. Now let's look at your chest. Here's a standing Chest Press for you. No bench, no barbell. Just a resistance tube or a couple of small hand weights. I can tell you feel stronger just thinking about it.
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The Walk That Ate New York, Part 1

Here's a great all-morning walk that burned more calories than I ate before, during and after it. I'll bet there's a version of this near you. Eat locally, walk locally. In this case, 600 calories in, 1,500 calories gone in 4 hours and 8 miles.
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BetterCheaperStronger: Triceps Extension

We've worked on your biceps with the Curl; now we'll balance that by strengthening your triceps muscle, the flip side of your biceps. You use your biceps to pull (picking up a bag) - and your triceps to push (putting something on a high shelf).
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Hiking the Potato State: Iron Creek Trail to Sawtooth Lake

I've had potatoes on my mind since I used the season's first fresh ones for that killer potato salad. Which recalled a killer hike in Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains, a 10-mile roundtrip trail that goes up 2,000 feet and burns about 2,000 calories. About 15 big potatoes.
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Better Cheaper Stronger: Biceps Curl

Our Upper Body Strength Training program begins with this exercise because it's familiar and easy. Full disclosure: Better Cheaper Stronger means you get stronger. Not like Arnold. Just stronger than you are now. So that you can do a lot of things more easily and comfortably.
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Take the stairs. And calcium.

You have to see and climb Dorr Mountain's East Face Trail to believe it. Thousands of stairs carved into the mountain's solid granite. Straight staircases. Switchback staircases. Spiral staircases. Steep ones. Build strong bones.
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Stretch of the Week: Your Upper Back

Up on your feet. Today, we'll try to relax, stretch and strengthen your neck, shoulders and mid- and upper back. To make them feel and function better - and to keep them from creating pressure on your lower back. Press Play and watch me. Then it's your turn.
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The Walk That Ate San Francisco

The Better.Cheaper.Slower map to a great way to spend the day in San Francisco. Eat a bunch of delicious, healthy foods while you burn way more calories than you consume on a spectacularly scenic walking tour of San Francisco.
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