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Fitness: Water aerobics burns calories without breaking a sweat
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Exercising in water burns about 100 calories more than exercising on land. It requires some endurance, though, to exercise in water.
Work up a sweat while cooling off with water aerobics. Water aerobics will allow you to exercise outdoors without overheating during the hot summer months. You burn about 100 more calories walking or running underwater than on land. Water exercises also provide resistance in all directions, while land exercises only provide resistance against gravity. This helps to more efficiently tone and strengthen your body.
Jogging, jumping, squats, kicking and dancing are all effective forms of exercise underwater. If you are a beginner, start in shallow water and exercise for 20 minutes. As your endurance increases, move to deeper water and increase your workout time to 45 minutes. When you are finished exercising your energy will be renewed, and you won't be
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exhausted or sweaty.
Information compiled from health. msn.com
Green Tip: Three ways to be eco-friendly when living a typically wasteful dorm life
When moving to the dorms, many students don't think they can bring their green habits from home to the dorms. But here are some ways for students to take their ecofriendly habits from the home environment and apply them to their dorm rooms.
1) Turn off your computer. Stacey White, director of academic
help reduce our consumption of other materials.
3) Try to reduce. White said buy a printer that had a duplex function so you could print on both sides of the paper. She said you could also set your paper margins smaller because one-inch margins wasted space.
programs at the KU Center for Sustainability, said just powering off your electronic devices and unplugging unused items like your phone charger could save on energy usage.
2) Buy recycled materials. White said purchasing recycled paper, notebooks and even pens made from recycled material could
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