Atlanta has one of the largest, if not the largest, population of tennis players of any city in the world
In Atlanta, you can play 12 months out of the year. Atlanta has more recreational leagues than I can name much less participate in. If you wanted to, you could play a league tennis match 7 days a week 12 months of the year.
But, one cannot live on tennis alone. The stress on
This article was written by Callie Leaver, a Certified Personal Trainer in Atlanta, Georgia.
Okay I’ll be honest; walking as a form of exercise just isn’t my thing. I am a jogger/runner and have been for many years. But in 2001, along with other friends, I signed up for the Avon 3 Day Walk, which is now known as the Breast Cancer 3 Day Walk. The walk was 20 miles a day for three days
Crossing great distances by foot was never something that caused anxiety for me growing up. I started running cross country in junior high school and would easily run five or ten miles in an afternoon.
I ran cross country in the fall, indoor track in the winter and spring track in the spring. During the summer, I ran an average of about seventy miles a week to stay in shape. I was co-captain of the
Deciding I wanted to get back into shape after putting on a lot of weight during my pregnancy was easier than doing it. I tried a lot of different diets including Atkins and discovered that deprivation wasn’t something that worked for me. I simply couldn’t stick to a diet that cut out a lot of my favorite foods entirely.
When the quick fixes didn’t work, I started watching my portions and eating three or four
I have always been a walker, for as long as I can remember.
Born to parents both from poor Dublin families, a car was, both in their youth and in mine, something of a luxury. And so we walked. My father, as a young sales representative, had a beat up car that got him from A to B, but my mother, my elder brother and I were left to walk until years later, when
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