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Getting Better With Age: Dive In

Fitness : By LIZ ROBBINS : DARA TORRES, the 41-year-old Olympic swimmer with the impossibly chiseled abs who collected three silver medals in Beijing, has proved at the elite level that getting older doesn’t mean getting slower in the water. But put her aside for now.
Even outside the elite ranks, the 40-something (and older) swimmer […]

Healthy Diets Shown to Have Benefit Despite Modest Weight Losses

By TARA PARKER-POPE : In a tightly controlled dieting experiment, obese people lost an average of just 6 to 10 pounds over two years.
The study, published Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine, was supposed to determine which of three types of diets works best. Instead, the results highlight the difficulty of weight loss […]

Real Thought for Food for Long Workouts

Personal Best : By GINA KOLATA
DR. MARK TARNOPOLSKY, a muscle physiology researcher at McMaster University in Canada and a physician, knows all about the exhortations by supplement makers and many nutritionists on what to eat and when to eat it for optimal performance.
The idea is that you are supposed to consume carbohydrates and proteins in […]

Yogi, Take Me to a Higher Place

Fitness : By JOELLE HANN
WHEN Raquel Prieto moved from Northampton, Mass., to Boston in January, there was one thing she sought as urgently as an affordable living situation and a job: an advanced yoga class.
As a dedicated yogi, she wanted to work on meditation and on poses, or asanas, requiring a lot of strength and […]

O.K., Avatar, Work With Me

Fitness for Every Body : By SETH SCHIESEL
WHEN Nintendo released the Wii 18 months ago, it upended the notion of what video games could be. Moving beyond the sunlight-deprived young men at gaming’s core, Nintendo appealed to the rest of the world with an intuitive, family-friendly entertainment experience.
Women, parents, even nursing-home residents have been drawn […]

For Peak Performance, 3 Is Not Better Than 1

Personal Best : By GINA KOLATA
WHEN Jenny Higgins started doing triathlons, she discovered something peculiar. She had been on her high school cross country and swim teams and her college swim team. But in 2003 she started running, swimming and cycling, and tried to excel in all three at once.
“I noticed that in the pool, […]

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