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Fit Traveler: Fitness Cruise

FitSugar — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:45:00 -0700

Needing a getaway but don't want to do something that will be counter productive to your fitness efforts? How about a cruise? No, seriously...

What: Tom Holland's Fitness Cruise
Where: The ship, Carnival Valor, departs port in Miami, FL to the waters of the Grand Cayman, to the exotic ports of call of Roatan Island, Belize, Costa Maya and back to Miami.
When: March 2, 2008
Why: Tom Holland, a well known personal trainer who has worked at Reebok Sports Club, Equinox, Crunch, The New York Sports Clubs and the Cardio Fitness Center, has put together this fitness cruise. During the cruise, he has daily workout sessions planned that complement the ship's activities and ports of call. Along with your daily workout sessions, you'll have time to talk with Tom directly about your own fitness goals, concerns, etc.

For more information and to sign-up, visit QueenslandTours.com.

Healthy Dose Link Time

FitSugar — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:00:52 -0700

Three moves to slim your thighs - Shape
More on posted calorie counts and unchanging eating habits - That's Fit
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes getting it on to get skinny - FitCeleb
What's your yogurt personality? - Fit Bottomed Girls
Running fashion dilemma: running shorts with built in underwear - Fresh Fitness Tips
Slim down your recipes with tips from celebrity chefs - Health
The skinny on exercising when sick - Daily Spark

Celebrity BMIs Suggest the Numbers Can Be Misleading

FitSugar — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:00:35 -0800

When you're striving to achieve a healthy weight, it's natural to look for guidance about what exactly that means for your body. While the jeans test is telling in terms of your body's changes, your pants can't tell you how many pounds you might need to lose or gain to get to your best weight.

For years, we turned to the body mass index (BMI) formula for a clue about where we fall on the health curve, but the calculation doesn't differentiate between the weight of muscle from fat and therefore isn't as trusted as it used to be.

Health.com recruited its top two nutrition experts to calculate the BMIs of seven celebrities by analyzing their photos. The experts were told each celebrity's height measurements but used weight estimates, so their calculations aren't 100 percent accurate. Still, the results offer some surprising insight about the accuracy of BMIs. To see their approximate BMI calculations for celebs and athletes like Beyonce and Tony Romo, read more.

Celebrity	Height	Estimated Weight (lbs)	Estimated BMI	BMI Verdict
Angelina Jolie	5'8''	118	17.9	Underweight
Arnold Schwarzenegger	6'2''	240	30.8	Obese
Beyonce	5'6''	130	21	Normal
Tom Cruise	5'7''	166	26	Overweight
Tony Romo	6'2''	224	28.8	Significantly overweight
Serena Williams	5'9''	150	22.1	Normal
Jennifer Love Hewitt	5'2''	120	21.9	Normal

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