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Fitness
Fitness is an important component of overall health. Staying in shape lets your body's systems accomplish their jobs more efficiently, and you'll look and feel better, too. Find information about diets, exercise and weight management in the articles in this section of HowStuffWorks.
Recent Fitness Articles:

What do you do when the snow starts to fall or a gale threatens to blow you off the path to fitness? You learn how to beat the weather and keep putting one foot in front of the other!


There's more to being healthy and fit than weight and calories. Calculating your body mass index will show you a more accurate overall view of your health. Use our online calculator to see how you measure up.


You tone them, build them, and soak them when they ache, but do you really understand them? This article explains how muscles help you accomplish countless ordinary and extraordinary tasks.


Pilates, an exercise system originally developed to rehabilitate German internees in World War I England, has entered into the mainstream. Learn how Pilates builds muscle strength without adding bulk.

 
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