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Revisiting the Fitness Magazine: You Can Do It Challenge

I signed up for the Fitness Magazine You Can Do It challenge. I’ve been following their advised workout and let me tell you, four days in – I’m sore. I am pretty good at following my own regular fitness regimen, but this one targets specific areas with specific exercises to be performed in specific time frames.

Including Regular Stretching

The challenge recommends that you warm up and cool down, I’m also going to include a regular session of deep stretching every evening before bed. While I enjoy the workout as described in the challenge – I think that I am experiencing the result of using muscle groups I’m not used to using.

As a reminder, we’ve talked about stretching here in the Fitness blog and here are some links to previous blogs on stretching that may help you out:

Fitness Goals: The Long and the Short of It

The High 5 on Stretching

The Dos and Don’ts of Stretching

Are Your Muscles Sore?

Starting off on the Right Foot

I really like this challenge and I think it has a lot to offer via the information, the pick up emails and the inspiration. I think the stretching is very important component and can make the difference between giving up your workout program because of accident, injury or over training and seeing it through to the end.

Do yourself a favor, if you are signed up for this challenge or any other, make sure you stretch regularly – your muscles will thank you. I know mine will. Now I am going to hobble into the living room to stretch out my back!

Are you signed up for the challenge? If so, are you enjoying it? If not, what other workout program do you use?

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About Heather Long

Heather Long is 35 years old and currently lives in Wylie, Texas. She has been a freelance writer for six years. Her husband and she met while working together at America Online over ten years ago. They have a beautiful daughter who just turned five years old. She is learning to read and preparing for kindergarten in the fall. An author of more than 300 articles and 500+ web copy pieces, Heather has also written three books as a ghostwriter. Empty Canoe Publishing accepted a novel of her own. A former horse breeder, Heather used to get most of her exercise outside. In late 2004, early 2005 Heather started studying fitness full time in order to get herself back into shape. Heather worked with a personal trainer for six months and works out regularly. She enjoys shaking up her routine and checking out new exercises. Her current favorites are the treadmill (she walks up to 90 minutes daily) and doing yoga for stretching. She also performs strength training two to three times a week. Her goals include performing in a marathon such as the Walk for Breast Cancer Awareness or Team in Training for Lymphoma research. She enjoys sharing her knowledge and experience through the fitness and marriage blogs.