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1 week ago | 
salisburypost.com | Ester Marsh
Published 12:00 am Saturday, June 21, 2025 I have seen some cases lately where someone had challenges due to overheating. As we all feel it, it’s hot and humid. Extreme heat and exercising in it is no joke. It can actually be very bad for your health if you don’t take the right precautions. Sometimes, it’s hard to adjust your schedule, especially when you are training for something like a 5K, obstacle race or marathon.
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3 weeks ago | 
salisburypost.com | Ester Marsh
Published 12:00 am Saturday, June 7, 2025 Last week, I was in El Paso, Texas. I was with my sister from the Netherlands, visiting my daughter and granddaughter. They were helping my daughter’s best friend, who is legally blind, while her husband is serving overseas until October. Ft. Bliss is a huge base with a beautiful common area and El Paso is definitely a place to visit — especially when you like it hot, and I do! Her friend Katie has the albino gene and has had bad eyesight since birth.
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4 weeks ago | 
salisburypost.com | Ester Marsh
Published 12:00 am Saturday, May 31, 2025 We had a great Lunch and Learn at the J.F. Hurley Family YMCA a week ago. It was about stress management and mindfulness techniques. Tai Chi Grand Master Craig and I were the speakers for this lunch and learn. I love teaching about stress management and mindfulness because when I do, I do so much better myself. We all have stress in our lives. When you try to eliminate stress, you will find out that stress will become so much worse.
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1 month ago | 
salisburypost.com | Ester Marsh
Published 12:00 am Saturday, May 17, 2025 I always believe that exercising should be first for your health and independence. Looking better should be a secondary goal. When you do all the things for a healthy lifestyle, looking better will be a great byproduct. So, what does this mean? Make sure your workouts include cardiovascular work, strength training, flexibility, and of course, a sensible healthy diet.
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1 month ago | 
salisburypost.com | Ester Marsh
Published 12:00 am Saturday, May 10, 2025 It doesn’t seem to matter what study they come up with, exercise is always part of the regimen, and sometimes even the solution. Everyone knows that when you don’t use it, you lose it. Health is one of the greatest priorities, and you must take charge of it yourself. As with anything, the first step is typically the hardest.
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2 months ago | 
salisburypost.com | Ester Marsh
Published 12:00 am Saturday, April 26, 2025 Do you know what your IT band is? And it can cause all kind of problems when too tight, and/or inflamed. IT stands for iliotibial. It’s a thick band of connective tissue, that runs from the hip bone on the outside of the leg to the knee and shinbone. Iliotibial band syndrome is a condition that results in pain on the outer side of the knee. When you follow the IT band down the side of the leg, it covers the boney area on the outside of the knee.
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2 months ago | 
salisburypost.com | Ester Marsh
Published 12:00 am Saturday, April 12, 2025 Another column I have written about in the past. But the conversations I have had after last week’s strong core column, I feel the need to cover this again. If you don’t love your own body, who is going to? I absolutely love confident people, no matter what size or shape they are. They walk around and have accepted, and look beautiful in, their own body.
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2 months ago | 
salisburypost.com | Ester Marsh
Published 12:00 am Saturday, April 5, 2025 The question of the year — which abdominal exercises will work my abs the best? This happens each year when the weather is getting warmer everyone spends a lot more time on abdominal exercises. In the past, I have done some columns on abdominal exercises but it is always good to refresh, and get some “new stuff” to try. So many people are working their abs thinking that “it” will get smaller.
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Mar 22, 2025 | 
salisburypost.com | Ester Marsh
Published 12:00 am Saturday, March 22, 2025 The weather has been interesting lately. We go from springtime to wintertime to storm season. However, whenever I get a chance, I get my vitamin D. Vitamin D, also called the “sunshine” vitamin, is deficient in many more people than we realize. If you are someone who doesn’t like to go outside much and stays inside most of the time, you might struggle with vitamin D deficiency.
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Mar 8, 2025 | 
salisburypost.com | Ester Marsh
Published 12:00 am Saturday, March 8, 2025 How do you know if you are working out hard enough? It’s hard enough when you are in a group exercise class or fitness to get your heart rate up where it should be, but exercising at home makes it even more challenging. To work your heart and lungs, and get the ultimate results, you actually have to challenge your heart and lungs. So how do you know if you are working hard enough? There are a couple of ways to figure that out.
