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Big Weight Loss on The Biggest Loser
Fans of The Biggest Loser Show show know of the race among contestants to be the first to lose 100 pounds. It's a huge milestone that most of the contestants will make at some point during the show. They begin hundreds of pounds overweight. What's amazing is how fast they can reach that 100-pound mark. This week's episode set a new record. Moses lost 100 pounds by the sixth-week weigh in. It brought his weight down to 340 and sent his teammates jumping and punching the air. "What I've learned …
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Finding Love in the Gym
Something really brilliant happened at the gym the other day. My workout buddy, Jo, turned to me and said in her beautiful English accent: "I actually look forward to working out now. It's really fun." She was pleasantly surprised. I was thrilled. Jo has never been a "workout person," as she puts it. She's never been the type who waits in line to make sure she gets the best spot in a weight-lifting class. She doesn't run marathons or play any sports. But she is health conscious. Even though …
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Sink Your Teeth into New Dietary Guidelines
In today's world, you can find a diet on the internet to justify eating whatever food you really want. Low-carb diets let you feast on fatty foods. High-carb regimens give you clearance for bread products. For those of us who find it all a little confusing, we can now turn to government health officials for some advice. New dietary guidelines online spell out what you should and should not eat. Yes, it's still up to you to read labels and ask for nutritional information. But it's good to …
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Making an ImPACT on Sports Injuries
In the past, athletes were advised to take their blows and get back on the playing field. Now, medical and athletic professionals realize the importance of ensuring players' health before they return to the game. This topic has made headlines in recent months. Bon Secours Hampton Roads is doing its part to help protect area athletes from permanent brain injury. Since 2006, it has donated the ImPACT computer program to Suffolk, Portsmouth, York County and Poquoson public schools. ImPACT (Immediate …
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Think Pink: Come Support ODU’s “Hoops for a Cure”
For the 9th consecutive year the Old Dominion University Lady Monarchs are asking fans to "Think Pink" and come out to support their annual "Hoops for a Cure" game. Bon Secours In Motion Physical Therapy and Sports Performance is sponsoring this annual contest for breast cancer awareness scheduled to go down at the Ted Constant Center on February 13th when ODU hosts their CAA rival UNC-Wilmington at 2 p.m. The activities begin an hour before game time with a Women's Health expo and the survivor …
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Team In Motion
For the last two years Team In Motion has been bonding outside of work and has dominated the world of Adult Sand Flag Football. During each Spring and Winter season, as well as tournaments throughout the summer, some of the areas best Physical Therapists, Athletic Trainers, and Sports Performance Coaches meet at the Oceanfront to challenge each other, challenge themselves, and send shivers of fear through awaiting opponents. Of the fifteen men and women on the team, twelve of them work …
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Big Weight Loss on The Biggest Loser
Fans of The Biggest Loser Show show know of the race among contestants to be the first to lose 100 pounds. It’s a huge milestone that most of the contestants will make at some point during the show. They begin hundreds of pounds overweight. What’s amazing is how fast they can reach that 100-pound mark. [...]
Finding Love in the Gym
Something really brilliant happened at the gym the other day. My workout buddy, Jo, turned to me and said in her beautiful English accent: “I actually look forward to working out now. It’s really fun.” She was pleasantly surprised. I was thrilled. Jo has never been a “workout person,” as she puts it. She’s never [...]
Sink Your Teeth into New Dietary Guidelines
In today’s world, you can find a diet on the internet to justify eating whatever food you really want. Low-carb diets let you feast on fatty foods. High-carb regimens give you clearance for bread products. For those of us who find it all a little confusing, we can now turn to government health officials for [...]
Making an ImPACT on Sports Injuries
In the past, athletes were advised to take their blows and get back on the playing field. Now, medical and athletic professionals realize the importance of ensuring players’ health before they return to the game. This topic has made headlines in recent months. Bon Secours Hampton Roads is doing its part to help protect area [...]
Team In Motion
For the last two years Team In Motion has been bonding outside of work and has dominated the world of Adult Sand Flag Football. During each Spring and Winter season, as well as tournaments throughout the summer, some of the areas best Physical Therapists, Athletic Trainers, and Sports Performance Coaches meet at the Oceanfront to challenge each other, [...]
Biggest Loser Challenge: Overcoming Injury
Hannah was an athlete in college. She could propel her body into the air to slam a volleyball across the room. And then she fell on the stairs and injured her back. She had emergency back surgery to repair slipped discs. The Biggest Loser contestant said it was then that her weight problems began. In [...]
Biggest Loser Tip: Retrain Your Taste Buds
Many of the contestants on NBC’s The Biggest Loser say living on the ranch for 12 weeks is their last chance to do something about the pounds they need to shed. Isolated from family, pizza delivery and fridges stocked with soda, life on the Biggest Loser ranch means forced dieting. You can’t cheat unless you’re [...]
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