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Keeping up with everything on Outrage Nations daily agenda can be downright impossible sometimes. Other times, trying to draw readers toward a particular story breaks through the muck and warrants every bit of disdain thrown its way.

This is one of those times.

It all started with a (since-deleted) tweet from Cosmopolitan magazine designed to draw attention to a story (previously) billed as How This Woman Lost 44 Pounds Without *ANY* Exercise.

That is the type of line that's sure to garner attention. I mean, who wouldn't want to drop a few dozen pounds without having to go to the pesky gym or on an unappealing diet?

Well, I mentioned the phrase (previously) billed because over the course of the past two days, the story's headine has been changed toA Serious Health Scare Helped Me Love My Body More Than Everand the initial tweet promoting it has been deleted.

Those alterations resulted from thesort of backlashone would expect when a publication seemingly treats cancer as a primo weight-loss strategy. (See here, here and here.)

Yep,31-year-old Simone Harbinson of Melbourne, Australia dropped those 44 pounds, alright. And to tell readers how, the story starts with a nod to havingcomplicated relationship with her body before noting that her weight-loss journey was overshadowed by a waterfall of health scares.

In lieu of exercise, she battledseveral life-threatening setbacks and lost weight.This "approach" to slimming down included a severe kidney infection, a malignant carcinoid tumor of the appendix, the removal of part of a colon, infections and a partial lung collapse.

Obviously, cancer has brought pain and loss into countless families around the globe. And obviously, Harbinson's battle weaves a tale of bravery as she overcame steep medical odds.

So whats the issue here?

Well, when you lure readers with as magazines are wont to do weight-loss strategies before summer rolls around, its not exactly classy toinadvertently note that one would have to get cancer to drop thepounds in Harbinson's no-exercise program.

Exactly zero readers delved into that piece and walked away thinking, You know what, the perfect bikini body is worth going through all that.

Its one thing to employ the "present story in form of a question on social media to draw readers in" model. I've done it from time to time. Most people in this field have.

But it'ssomething altogether different to stoke interest in utilitarian weight-loss strategies by shielding thehorrors necessary to get there.

That Harbinson was able to fend off body image issues is an important point to make, but not at the expense of cancer-shielding, click-baity social-media marketing.

Make sure this doesn't happen again, writers and publishers of the world.

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The Rock's Workout Regimen and Diet For 'Fast 8' Is Absolutely, Totally Nuts Maxim On the contrary, he set a goal of putting on a staggering 22 pounds of mean, lean muscle for his upcoming role in The Fate of the Furious. In an Instagram post, Johnson said he wanted to play the "meanest, strongest and most highly funny & entertaining ...

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QUESTION:Ive been following a high-protein diet, but I recently read something about this adversely affecting my kidneys? I plan to ask my doctor about this, but do you know of any correlation?

ANSWER:Good question, and one that used to come up pretty frequently when high-protein diets were all the rage. There are essentially two different scenarios that we need to address here. The first one involves those with a pre-existing kidney condition. In this instance, following a high-protein diet, and specifically the induction phases of some of the most popular programs, can lead to a steeper decline in function. For these individuals, high-protein diets are not recommended. Is it animal protein or plant protein you are consuming? The second scenario involves people with normal kidney function. There isnt any research indicating that high-protein diets negatively impact these folks, but theres an important caveat here that we cant ignore. How do you know if you have normal kidney function? Do you really know if your kidneys are working as well as they should be? Many with renal insufficiency (an early condition of declining function) are asymptomatic, and completely unaware of the potential for problems down the road. And, unfortunately, most folks dont see a doctor before starting a high-protein diet. Therefore, if youve committed to losing weight with this type of regimen, it might be a good idea to get your labs checked.

Andrea Ivins is the club manager and Zumba Instructor at Anytime Fitness in Palestine, TX. To submit a question for future articles, please contact the author at palestinetx@anytimefitness.com and thrivingivins.com.

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April 14, 2017

By Jeremy Rellosa

On Monday, Alexis Drzewiecki, Greg Welch and their teammates will be running the 26.2 miles of the Boston Marathon to raise money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Last year, they volunteered for the public good in a different way: Theystopped running.

In the months surrounding the 2016 Boston Marathon, they and 20 otherrunners participated in a Massachusetts General Hospital study on "detraining" the physical effects of running lessafter the race. Researchers measured their physical condition at their fitness peak before the race, and then over the next two months as they ran far less.

The preliminary results carry an important message for runners and other endurance athletes, says Dr. Aaron Baggish, the studys lead author and the director of the cardiovascular performance program at MGH.

"Rest and recovery after a marathon are not going to force you to lose ground," he says. "There's always a concern among runners that taking time off after they run is going to result in losses in health gains or losses in fitness. And what we saw is that, really through four and then eight weeks, a lot of the good benefits of running were still durable."

That's important, he says, "because people in the running community don't like to rest. This is a good reminder that they can, and they probably should.

Drzewiecki, who is running her fifth Boston Marathon this year, recalls what she endureda year ago, as she was tested on a treadmill that inclined ever more steeply.

They would strap us into this very 'Star Wars'-looking mask, to gauge our breathing and our output," she says."And they said, Run as absolutely long as you can, and when you feel like youre really going to drop, grab the handlebars and well stop it.

Remember that training montage in "Rocky IV," where Rockys Soviet opponent, Ivan Drago, is hooked up to all those tubes and wires? Thats how Greg Welch felt.

You hear the treadmill, ka-kink, ka-kink, its getting faster and higher and youre over there breathing into this mask which -- yeah, it was totally Rocky. Rocky meets science."

You hear the treadmill, ka-kink, ka-kink, its getting faster and higher and youre over there breathing into this mask which yeah, it was totally Rocky. Rocky meets science, says Welch, who is running his third Boston Marathon this year.

The participants in the study had blood tests and EKGs, and when they werent strapped into a mask and being monitored, they abided by the two-hour-a-week cardio limit. It seemed appealing at first.

The first month was easy, Welchsays. The first month, youre like, 'Yeah, not a problem.'

A month before the marathon youre like, 'Heck yeah, no exercise, I can do that,' Drzewiecki says.

After a month of this detraining, though, they noticed some changes in their bodies. When Drzewiecki came in for her testing sessionfour weeks after the marathon, it felt much harder.

Compared to the first visit, where I felt like I was on that treadmill forever, I felt like I was struggling when they first started inclining the treadmill, and I definitely didnt last as long, she says.

Welchagrees: Yeah, that was a struggle. You could tell you were working harder, your heart was definitely beating faster.

Surprising Results

The participants' bodies did change, says Baggish.

Probably the most dramatic changes that we saw were in the structure of the heart," he says. "We saw reductions in the size of the right heart by 10 to 20 percent in as little as eight weeks.

But what's most striking about his findings is how much the participants' bodies and fitness levels stayed the same. That shrunken heart, for example, that had to affect their running, right?

Probably not much, Baggish says. It probably is a reflection of the fact that the heart can oscillate within a given range and still be perfectly healthy, and still contribute to good exercise capacity.

After eight weeks of easing off, the participants peak VO2 or how much oxygen they can intake didnt change much, he says. Sothough participants like Drzewiecki and Welch felt less able to endure time on the treadmill after two months, that didnt cause them to lose their cardio fitness gains, according to Baggish.

A lot of athletes feel that after a week or so of rest that if they're not back at it, they're going to lose fitness, and that's just not really what we found.

A lot of athletes feel that after a week or so of rest that if they're not back at it, they're going to lose fitness,'' he says, "and that's just not really what we found.

So, the difficulty that Drzewiecki and Welch perceived during the detraining period was most likely in their heads. And the physiological benefits of all the training they did before the marathon lasted for at least two months, Baggish says: We also found that some of the beneficial things that happened with marathon training, like improvements in cholesterol profiles, were durable at least through eight weeks of detraining.

I'm a firm believer in everyone backing off very dramatically after a marathon for some period of time, hesays. For some people it's a week, for some people four weeks, for some people it may be eight weeks.

This study isnt specific to just marathoners, headds; it's likely generalizable other endurance athletes, includingtriathletes, cyclists and rowers.

His ultimatetakeaway: Rest is vital, and all of our measurements would suggest that rest is not counterproductive, that if anything, it's productive. "

Dr. Baggish and his research team have not published their study yet, but it was presented at the American College of Cardiology conference in March. They note some limitations: It didnt adjust for their participants dietary intake. And they didnt see what would happen after eight weeks of detraining. What if it had stretched to three months, or six? Thats for another study, Baggish says.

Meanwhile, Drzewiecki and Welch are back in top form and planning to run on Monday. And when it's over, they'll give their legs plenty of rest.

"After the marathon," Drzewiecki says, "it's more about the celebration and less about the miles."

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Exterior of the Brick Fitness for Women on Brick Boulevard Friday, April 14, 2017. Notices were visible on the front door announcing its closure.(Photo: Thomas P. Costello)Buy Photo

Brick Fitness for Women closed its doors on Thursday, saying, "It is tough to say good-bye."

"It is with great sadness we announce the closing of Brick Fitness for Women at the end of the day, Thursday, April 13th," states a note posted on fitness center's door. "After 27 years in Brick, we have made countless valued friendships."

Karin DeMarco, Howell, discovers Friday, April 14, 2017, that the Brick Fitness for Women on Brick Boulevard had closed. She said she had been coming there for 8 years and looked forward to the Yoga classes. (Photo: Thomas P. Costello)

The note,which you can read below, informed members that their accounts will no longer be billed. It also stated:

"If the alternative above that applies to your membership is satisfactory there is nothing you have to do," the note goes on to state. "On your first Toms River visit, your membership card will be created along with any necessary paperwork."

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Howell resident Karin DeMarco discovered the club was closed when she showed up for a yoga class on Friday. "I am devastated," DeMarco said. It was a community, she said. "I was very surprised and very saddened," she said. I wish the owners well, I really liked the gymfor the many, many years I was amemberthere."

The owner of the Brick club could not be reached for comment.

A notice is shown Friday, April 14, 2017, on the front door of Brick Fitness for Women on Brick Boulevard announcing its closure.(Photo: Thomas P. Costello)

David P. Willis: 732-643-4039; dwillis@gannettnj.com;facebook.com/dpwillis732.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) The pain was real.

Some 48 hours after being put through Danica Patrick's fitness test by Danica Patrick herself it's the basis for her upcoming book and the sort of thing that will occupy her time when retirement from racing comes I wasn't constantly sore. But every time I stood up came a sharp reminder from my legs that Patrick had kicked my butt.

This was the workout: 100 air squats, 100 push-ups (on my knees), 100 butterfly sit-ups and 100 lunges, all timed to see how long it took to complete the set. That's the benchmark for more than 700 participants in the trial program for Patrick's "Pretty Intense" book, due out next year.

Her fitness challenge has been an ongoing project this season while balancing her NASCAR duties. Participants sent in "before" pictures of themselves and were given access to Patrick's 12-week fitness and "clean eating" program. The results, including "after" photos, will be part of the book.

With Patrick's driving days possibly nearing an end in the not-too-distant future, what might have seemed like an off-track hobby is being fast-tracked into something far bigger. She launched the clothing line "Warrior by Danica Patrick" on HSN after participating in the design process. And she developed the workouts and meal plans for the book.

Ask Patrick about how much longer she will race, and her reply doesn't suggest the question is off-target.

"As long as it's fun and it hasn't been super fun lately," she said before the season started. "But every year I start the year, I always have hope that it's going to be the year that things are going to click. I understand my career hasn't progressed.

"Maybe it's regressed? Why is that? Am I worse driver than I was a couple of years ago? Probably not," she said. "I don't think anybody gets worse. So it's really a matter of all the factors around you."

Patrick turned 35 last month. She has been racing more than half her life, building her brand along the journey and using a marketing strategy that has made her one of the most recognized female athletes in the world despite her limited on-track success. She is ranked 29th through the first seven races of the season.

Patrick drives for one of NASCAR's top teams, but the sponsorship that was so easy to come by during earlier days remember the GoDaddy TV ads? is now a harder sell. Before the season, Stewart-Haas Racing and primary sponsor Nature's Bakery became embroiled in a lawsuit over missed payments by the sponsor and what Patrick did or didn't deliver on behalf of the brand. It was an 11th-hour loss of about $15 million and it shed light on how hard it is to sell even the most marketable of drivers.

Now in her fifth full season in NASCAR's top series, Patrick has yet to win a race and she only has six top-10 finishes in 161 starts.

Make no mistake: She can drive. She has led laps in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500.

But her lone victory in the IndyCar Series came in 2008 and sticks out as a glaring reminder of how her superstar status outstrips her racing resume.

It's been a popular thought for some time that Patrick eventually would make the transition to a lifestyle career, maybe becoming some version of a Rachael Ray type. This much is true: Patrick appears capable of doing pretty much anything. She can whip up a five-course gourmet meal, pair wines, paint, and dress for either black tie events or black dirt at the race track.

Is carving out a space in the lucrative health and fitness business where she ultimately wants to be?

"Sure," she said after a long pause. "If I'm going to do all this and write a cookbook and a fitness program, I'll take this as far as I can to motivate people to be successful. The program works. I know it works."

After giving up dairy and gluten a few years ago, she really noticed the difference. She no longer would slog through a crummy afternoon and thought, "Man, today is just not my day."

"I just don't have those," she said. "The only thing that knocks me out now, sometimes, is allergies. But I don't get tired. I don't get full when I eat and I eat all the time, too."

She is a firm believer in meal preparation, and almost always carries a cooler with healthy eating options. At Thanksgiving, she served a grain-free, dairy-free stuffing, and a cold salad of shaved brussels sprouts, toasted butternut squash and a homemade dressing.

She's gone from working out once per day to twice per day and now occasionally three times. When it comes to food, there's no such thing as a cheat day.

"Wine, and every now and again, I have too much. But that happens," she said. "But I don't ever, ever, not on purpose, cheat on food. It's a routine. When I eat like (crap), I feel like (crap). If you want to lose weight and lean out, you have to eat well."

There's been a trickledown effect on her inner circle.

Friends make elaborate breakfasts. They work out more. Boyfriend and fellow driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. has completely changed his routines and auditioned last year for "American Ninja Warrior." Patrick's mother did the fitness challenge and has never felt better.

As for me, well, I'm not totally inactive but I wouldn't label myself a "fitness enthusiast."

I should have known I was in trouble when I arrived early for our side-by-side workout and found Patrick already warming up on the treadmill.

Or when she told me to tighten my shoelaces.

Or when she laughed out loud at my first attempt at a squat.

Truly, though, my biggest mistake was trying to keep up at the start. She was reeling off lunge after lunge in a race against the clock to beat her personal mark. It didn't take long for me to fall off her pace, and Patrick laughed later when she told me most people initially try to keep up, and instantly regret it.

I didn't finish the test. It seemed next to impossible when going head-to-head with Patrick, who completed the exercises in just over 9 minutes.

Afterward, Patrick the trainer scolded me and offered a bit of insight into how she thinks about her own professional life.

"With racing, working out, you name it," Patrick said, "if you are not determined in your mind that you can do it, then you won't do it."

And her personal life? Well, the divorcee says she does want a family. Her April Fool's Day joke was to post a photo of herself and Stenhouse on her social media platforms suggesting they had gotten engaged.

She let it sit overnight before finally acknowledging, again on social media, it was a prank. She posted a photo of a tree swing Stenhouse had built her in the woods of their North Carolina estate.

Once so glamorous off the track, and so competitive and confrontational on it, these days Patrick is more like a love-struck, self-described hippy who preaches serenity and takes time to enjoy everything around her.

So when is that family coming? The proposal from Stenhouse?

"I got that under control," she smiled.

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Its time for Apple Watch to get serious about fitness Here's how watchOS 4 could improve Apple Watch for fitness buffs. Image: Graham Bower/Cult of Mac

Apple puts fitness front and center in its advertising for Apple Watch Series 2, even going so far as to claim the device is a superior sports watch. But in reality, it is not a sports watch at all. Its a smartwatch. And thats a massively important distinction.

Sports watches, like the TomTom Runner or Garmin Forerunner, are cheaper and more reliableat logging workouts, while smartwatches arejacks of all trades, which usually means they are masters of none. Or at least, not masters of fitness.

The sad fact is that it doesnt have to be this way. Right now, its mostly the software that is letting Apple Watch down. Thats why Im hoping that with its next major software update, Apple will finally get its smartwatch into shape for fitness fans. Heres what I want to see in watchOS 4, which Apple will likely unveil at its Worldwide Developers Conference this June.

Ive been an Apple fan for almost three decades, and I love all of my Apple gadgets. I experience a frisson of pure joy every time I slide my finger along the Touch Bar on my shiny new MacBook Pro.

But if theres one thing Im more obsessed about than Apple, its fitness. And from that perspective, Apple Watch just doesnt measure up to Cupertinos normal high standards. Sure, it gets some things right: The Activity app is perfect for anyone who just wants to live a healthier day. But if your fitness activity includes running, cycling or swimming, it sucks.

Anyone who has seriously tried to use a running app on Apple Watch knows exactly what I mean.

Apples problem with fitness stems from the fact that smartwatches do more than just log workouts. They run third-party apps, which need fancy stuff like multi-touch Retina displays and power-hungry processors.

These features are not great for fitness wearables. The display drains battery and must be turned off most of the time. And the touchscreen doesnt work when you get sweaty or jump in the pool. You also cant useit without looking at it. Thats why most sports watches rely on reflective displays and regular buttons instead.

Smartwatches are more complicated that sports watches. And with extra complexity comes greater risks of things going wrong. So if all you are looking for is a reliable way to log your workouts, and you dont need any other fancy features, then you are better off using a simple sports watch.

There is not much Apple can do about these hardware issues. But watchOS adds even bigger software problems, and Cupertino should be able to fix these things.

When you log a workout using Apples built-in Workout app, you dont get much to show for it. Theres no easy way to view your progress and share it with friends. Sure, you can use third-party apps that provide more stats. But in every other respect, they prove vastly inferior to the built-in app.

Third-party apps dont let you use the Apple Watchs buttons to pause a workout. You cant activate the waterproof mode, so workouts accidentally stop when a damp sleeve brushes the touchscreen. And syncing workouts from a third-party watch app to an iPhone app is very unreliable. Sometimes your hard-earned workout data just vanishes without explanation.

If Apple is serious about fitness (and it certainly seems to be), then its time to stop entrusting this realm to third parties and improve the built-in Workout app. Alternatively,Apple needs to massively improve the tools it gives third-party developers, so they can build the truly great fitness apps that Apple Watch so desperately needs.

Ideally, Id like to see Apple do both. Heres what needs to happen.

My biggest problem with Apple Watchs built-in Workout app is that there is no companion app for iPhone.

The whole point of logging workouts for most people is that you want to be able to see your progress over time, with handy charts and stats. Thats something youd expect to see in even the most basic workout app. But Apple gives you no stats at all. Instead, you hunt around in the Activity app to find your data, where it gets lost in all your daily activity, and you can only view one workout at a time.

Maps in the Activity app are also extremely basic. You get a color trace of your route, to indicate where you sped up and slowed down, which is nice. But youll find no mile markers, and no way to check your pace, heart rate or elevation from a particular point along the route.

Id like to see a new Workout app for iPhone, and ideally for iPad and Mac as well, which would serve as a proper companion to the watch Workout app. It would be dedicated to providing detailed stats and insights into how you are doing, and sharing your workouts with friends and family. Maps should include charts for heart rate, pace and elevation. Apple could even go to town on this with cool 3-D animations using Flyover.

This ideal Workout app should also let you delete workouts (a task which rather confusingly must be done in the Health app currently) andmanually add workouts you forgot to log with your Apple Watch.

One of the big limitations for sharing currently is that Apple saves all your workout data into HealthKit. For privacy reasons, this data gets encrypted and stored locally on your device, rather than in the cloud. Sure, iCloud can back up your HealthKit data, but this is also encrypted not even Apple can access it. This makes sharing workouts difficult, and viewing them online impossible.

There is a very good reason for all that security. HealthKit handles some super-sensitive information, like your medical test results. But for less-sensitive stuff, like workouts, I think Apple could make sharing a little easier. In particular, Id like to see an Apple-designed Workout website, where you can view your workouts online and share them with friends and family. This could either be presented as another app within icloud.com or even as a stand-alone Apple Workout website.

Once your workout data is on iCloud, theres another awesome service Applecould add: integration with third-party services such as Nike, Strava and Runkeeper so your workouts could automatically sync to all the major fitness apps. This would be great if, like me, your buddies use different apps, and you want to share your workout data with all of them.

Most GPS devices provide an indication of signal strength. But not Apple Watch. This would be fine if it just works was true and signal strength was not a problem. But it doesnt and it is. If you start a workout before your Apple Watch Series 2 gets a good, strong GPS signal, it is likely to bork your run completely.

Third-party apps like Runkeeper solve this by adding signal-strength bars. But they should not need to. GPS signal strength should be built right into the watchOS status bar, appearing whenever an app accesses GPS, so you can clearly see when the watch is ready for you to start your run.

Another issue I have with GPS on my Series 2 watch is that it gives me a poor sample frequency. A GPS sample is the coordinates for your location at a particular point in time.In my testing, I get about onesample per second with Apple Watch, whereas my TomTom Runner delivers four samples a second. When apps plotyour route, they join these locations together, like a dot-to-dot drawing. More dots means a more accurate route map.

My guess is that this problem relates to battery life: Apple may be attemptingto preserveyour battery by being conservative withthe frequency at whichappscan get samples. Weve been here before: App switching used to take forever because Apple was trying to conserve power, but somehow in watchOS 3 they fixed it. Hopefully, in watchOS 4 Apple will find a way to improve GPS sample frequency while preserving battery life.

If the built-in Workout app synced with third-party apps (see my suggestion above), I suspect most people would use it instead of flaky alternatives.After all, theseapps all do pretty much the same thing anyway: They use theHKWorkout class in HealthKitto get your heart rate, distance and pace, then save itso your workout appears in the Health and Activity apps on your iPhone.

The only difference is that third-party appsutilize branded user interfaces and also save the data to their own cloud services. Currentlythats an unreliable process. Workouts usually appear inApples Activity app, but they sometimes fail to reach the third-party devs iPhone app. I think Apple could help more with this.

Once a workout gets saved in the Health app, it becomes available to all fitness apps on your iPhone that support HealthKit. Thats great in theory. But the problem is that, in practice, HealthKit does not store all the data types required for most workouts. For example, when you log a workout usingmy weightlifting app, (Reps & Sets), it can only save basic information like duration and calories burned to HealthKit, Other important workoutdata such as exactly which lifts you performed, what weight you used and how many sets you completed are not supported by HealthKit, so my appmust use its own database instead. Similarly, when you log a run, the GPS coordinates for your route cannot be accessed via HealthKit.

If Apple extended the data types that could be stored in HealthKit to provide more comprehensive support for common workout types, such as running,third-party apps would no longer need to handle transferring workouts from Apple Watch to iPhone themselves. They could leave HealthKit to do all the heaving lifting instead.

Currently, if you log a workout with a third-party Apple Watch app, you can only view the route map in the corresponding third-party iPhone app. The details of the workout may alsoappear in the Activity app, but not the map. You only get to see maps in the Activity app if you logged the workout using Apples built-in Workout app.

Another benefit of making more workout data available in HealthKit would be that route maps wouldbe available everywhere. So the Activity app (and hopefully the new Apple Workout app I suggested above) could display all of your route maps, regardless of which apps you logged them with.

With the launch of watchOS 3, Apples Workout app gained two important new features: a waterproof mode that disables the touchscreen during a workout, and the optionto pause a workout by pressing the side button and Digital Crown simultaneously. Thats handy when the touchscreen is too wet to use. Unfortunately, Apple did not give third-party developers access to these features. And they need that access. Badly.

WhenIm running in the rain, I wear a long-sleeve running jacket, which rubs agains myApple Watch screen and sometimes inadvertently triggersthe End Workout buttonwithout me realizing it. The only solution to this right now is to use the built-in Workout app with thewaterproof mode enabled.Another problem with rainyconditions is that sometimes I cant end the workout when Im done because the touchscreen is too wet. Adding the two-button pause option to third-party apps would solve this, letting me pause the workout to get inside anddry off, then end the workout properly with the touchscreen.

If watchOS 4 addresses all of the issues above, Apple Watchs fitness offering will be dramaticallyimproved. Itssmartwatch form factor still wont be as suited to sportsas that of aspecialized watch: Battery life, the always-off displayand physicalbuttonswill remain issues. Butmany fitness users will be prepared to accept a fewcompromises in order to enjoy onewatch that also doesso many other things so well.

Can a smartwatch ever be a truly perfect sports watch as well? Who knows. If anyone can do it, Apple can.

Cupertinomay be best known for its moments of radical innovation, but its the slow and steady incremental improvements over time that turn promising products into world-beaters. The first Mac, iPod and iPhone all suffered from serious limitations, butafter a few iterations they achieved perfection.Maybe watchOS 4, and Apple Watch Series 3, will finally deliver on Apples promise of a superior sports watch.

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The local hospital is helping to put the health in health club.

Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital and ACAC Fitness & Wellness Centers announced Friday that they have joined forces to create a health club in the hospitals outpatient clinic, across the road from the hospital.

The hospital is located off U.S. 250 east near Interstate 64. The facility is currently under construction and is expected to open this fall.

The club will offer members cardio workouts, weight machines, free weights, stretching, group exercise classes and physical therapy sessions. It will also partner with the hospital for wellness programs.

Having therapists and doctors in one location is a real advantage for us and for the hospital, said Christine Thalwitz, of ACAC. Were also excited to have a location on the east part of town near Pantops. That allows us to serve the entire community.

The club also will feature ACACs Physician-Referred Exercise Program. Its location will allow physicians to observe patients in motion.

Our sports center cares for athletes from a 6-year-old soccer player to a 75-year-old weekend warrior who runs half-marathons, said Jennifer Smiley, director of business options for Sentara Martha Jefferson. The fitness center will allow physicians to watch patients, to observe their gates on the treadmill and keep track of their progress. Well have doctors and physical therapists literally right around the corner from each other.

The center will be ACACs fifth location in the Charlottesville area. The company operates facilities in downtown Charlottesville and at Albemarle Square that feature machines, swimming pools, a variety of classes and other activities; an outdoor water park, tennis and childrens programs on Four Seasons Drive; and a 24-hour club at Old Trail in Crozet.

All ACAC fitness club members will have access to the new club. Memberships specifically for the new Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital location also will be available.

Having ACAC on our campus, and next door to our comprehensive sports medicine center, is a win-win for our community, said Jonathan Davis, president of Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital. This partnership will allow for continued collaboration and overall improved health for our patients and community at large.

The location is a boon to the club, as well.

This new location is an exciting vision for total health, said Phil Wendel, founder and owner of ACAC. The facilitys collaboration with physical therapy and sports medicine practitioners within a stones throw of the hospital makes the facility and its offerings unique in Charlottesville and the surrounding region.

Created in 1984, ACAC has been ranked among the top fitness clubs in the country. In addition to the Charlottesville area, the company has clubs in Richmond; West Chester, Pennsylvania; and Timonium, Hunt Valley and Germantown, Maryland.

Sentara Healthcare, which owns Martha Jefferson Hospital, includes 12 hospitals and associated services throughout Virginia and North Carolina.

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STUNNING celeb Vanessa Hudgens reveals the simple secret behind her impressive weight loss.

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Vanessa had to pile on 20lbs for her role in 2013 film Gimme Shelter. But in a bid to shape up the 28-year-old turned to twice-daily fitness classes.

Revealing all in an interview with Womens Health, the High School Musical babe said she routinely attended SoulCycle.

She explained: Put me on a bike in a room with loud music, and Im happy. Its like dancing without the stress of worrying if you look good.

Im really competitive when it comes to fitness. I like being around people so I can compete.

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Along with her dedicated fitness regime, Vanessa stuck to a high-fat, low-carb which helped to maintain her energy levels throughout the day.

Im really competitive when it comes to fitness

The brunette beauty confessed that her strict diet meant she slimmed down quickly.

Vanessa said: Since I got back to eating like this the last month or so, Ive lost 10lbs. Thats a lot for my [51] height.

Now shes maintaining her super toned physique with frequent yoga classes.

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She added: I looked in the mirror and was like, Who am I? It was definitely a journey back to myself, and yoga helped.

I dont consider it fitness. Its more like therapy for me.

Meanwhile Vanessa isnt the only celeb to share a weight loss secret.

Ed Sheeran recently opened up about how he dropped 3.5st after gorging on pizza and beer.

To beat the bulge, the hitmaker asked his hockey player girlfriend Cherry Seaborn for fitness advice.

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So the stunning blonde devised a diet plan and workout regime for him to follow.

Ed explained: I did 10 minutes a day without fail intervals of 30 seconds sprinting and 30 jogging.

The key is to not miss a day, so you dont have to do an hour.

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