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Allison Chopra, a personal trainer and owner of Urban Fitness Studio, and her client Jen Boles have shown us many different exercises to strengthen our legs, arms, and abdominals using a medicine ball. This week’s balance exercise strengthens your core and stabilizes your knees and ankles. Looking for more? Here are past exercises! New ones will be posted every Monday. Video by Lynae Sowinski
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BY CAIRRIL MILLS How do you raise awareness about a disease that’s socially unacceptable to discuss? With a purple dress, says Ashley Hasty, anything is possible. Hasty, 27, a lecturer at Indiana University’s apparel merchandising and interior design department, was diagnosed in 2010 with Crohn’s disease, which is defined by webmd.com as a painful and incurable “chronic inflammatory disease of the intestines.” The following year, Hasty founded the Purple Dress Project to raise awareness and funds to promote Crohn’s research. “I created the Purple Dress Project as my conversation starter for Crohn’s disease,” she says. “It’s tough to talk about the symptoms, it’s not glamorous, there’s nothing exciting about Crohn’s disease, and it’s just not socially acceptable to talk about [...]
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Allison Chopra, a personal trainer and owner of Urban Fitness Studio, and her client Jen Boles have taught us how to use a medicine ball to give both our legs and arms a good work out. This week, they show us a few exercises that will work the abdominals. Looking for more? Here are past exercises! New ones will be posted every Monday. Video by Lynae Sowinski
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BY CORINA BELLESSIS One night a month, there is an open discussion group in town called the Bloomington Sex Salon. If you attend, expect to hear blunt talk about such topics as sexual orientation, adolescent sexual development, and sexually transmitted infections. “Before humans were walking upright or talking, we were having sex,” says Dr. Debby Herbenick, associate research scientist at the IU School of Public Health. “Unfortunately, a lot of people are still very uncomfortable talking about it.” Better informing the public about sex is a passion of Herbenick’s, and as co-director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at IU, it’s also her job. For years, she has casually talked to other academics about their sexual research. Fascinated, she [...]
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Last week, Allison Chopra, a personal trainer and owner of Urban Fitness Studio, and her client Jen Boles taught us how to use a medicine ball with a simple squat. This week, they move to the upper body and show a number of arm exercises with a medicine ball (or another weighted object, like a gallon of milk). Looking for more? Here are past exercises! New ones will be posted every Monday. Video by Lynae Sowinski
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