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Top 10 Calorie-Burning Horror Movie

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Happy Halloween from your friends at NordicTrackCoupons.com!!!

Halloween CandyAccording to an article Watch a Scary Movie and Burn Calories, you can actually counteract all those candy bars you’ll be munching on while you’re really supposed to be giving them away to trick-or-treaters tonight. Don’t worry we’ve all been there too, who can simply pass out candy all night without grabbing a piece for themselves every now and then.

Well according to the article mentioned above, a recent study was done by the University of Westminster that proved you actually burn calories while watching scary movies. As your heart rate increases, so does your calorie-burning furnace. They stated that a watching a two hour scary movie, sitting on the comfort of your couch, can actually help you to burn close to 200 calories.

Here are the 10 Top Calorie-Burning Horror Movies to help you decide which movie you should be watching tonight: [Read more…]

Over-Pronation: What You Need To Know

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Running is a hobby taken up by many people across the country, however most runners suffer from pronation problems and therefore stop running all together. Unfortunately they use this first experience of discomfort as an excuse to not carry on. Firstly, they need to learn the do’s and don’ts on running.

Pronation is the medical term referring to the movement and weight distribution of a joint. In our case, it is how the foot distributes weight as a runner cycles through their gait. It is the body’s natural shock absorption process to roll inwards from heel towards big toe as we run or walk, but it is the action of that process in each individual that determines pronation. Pronation is commonly related to the natural profile of our feet.

Three Types of PronationThere are three types: neutral, under- and over- pronation. A neutral pronator, the most efficient type, will transfer from heel to toe with a relatively straight and balanced movement. Under pronators transfer too far to the outside of their feet, and their gait can loosely be described as moving in a bow-legged fashion. [Read more…]