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Honor Earth Day -- as well as your body -- with these workouts

Last updated Sunday, April 22, 2012 - 7:15am

Earth Day has become more than a day where Americans clean parks and plant trees or flowers.

The American Council on Exercise is using it as a day to promote outdoor activity.

They are using it as a day to encourage people to trade the treadmill for a walk in the park or the weight bench for an outdoor yoga class.

Here are five workouts they are suggesting for Earth Day, which is today, April 22.

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(NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner) Brady Ward and Brenda Ward show off their guns Wednesday at the Ogden Athletic Club in South Ogden.

Bod bonding: Layton mother and son get ripped together

Stephanie Chambers Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, March 24, 2012 - 7:32am

LAYTON -- With the marks of carrying five kids and the lines of 44 years of age on her body, Brenda Ward wasn't sure she wanted to wear a bikini in front of judges and spectators. But she'd seen the changes in herself since getting fit with a personal trainer and wondered about the possibilities.

But it wasn't until one of her five kids, Brady Ward, agreed to sign up for a bodybuilding competition with her that the Top of Utah woman decided that competing in the figure portion of the National Physique Committee Utah Open and Ironman Natural Bodybuilding Figure Bikini Physique Championships could be a reality.

"I've kind of always wanted to do a competition but never had the courage," said Brenda, who works at the front desk of the Ogden Athletic Club. "This year I was chatting with my family saying I wanted to try for this competition, so my son said, 'I'll do it with you if you want to do it.' "

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Dustin Hawkins trains participants in his W.A.R. (Workout Addiction Recovery) program in South Ogden in January.

WAR program helping minds get most of workouts

Stephanie Chambers Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, February 20, 2012 - 8:14pm

OGDEN -- Athletes often speak of the workout high -- a time of clarity and concentration, a clean feeling of purity and purpose. And that "high" is just what Dustin Hawkins is using to help former addicts change their lifestyle in the Workout Addiction Recovery (WAR) program that he designed based on his own recovery from addiction.

Hawkins, a Bonneville High School alumni, baseball standout, and former Houston Astro, became addicted to prescription drugs starting with a knee surgery. He was doing the drugs, playing baseball, and sinking further into it when he started seeing a therapist for his problems.

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The Clearfield Aquatic Center hosted its fifth annual “Sweat with your Sweetheart” mini-triathlon on Saturday. Men and women athletes age 16 and older participated in the event, which included a 500-yard swim, 10-mile stationary bike ride and a 5k run/walk on an indoor track.

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Clearfield mini-triathlon a sweaty sampler

Tanna Woods Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, February 17, 2012 - 8:04am

CLEARFIELD -- Clarissa Bybee thought teaching two to three consecutive hours of aerobics would be enough to help her endure a mini-triathlon.

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(Associated Press file photo) Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., smiles as he sits with daughter Kara Kennedy at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in May 2008. Kara, the oldest child of the senator who died Aug. 25, 2009, died Friday at a Washington-area health club, says brother Patrick Kennedy. The 51-year-old had battled lung cancer, which left her weakened, her brother says. “Her heart gave out. She’s with Dad.”

Kara Kennedy, daughter of Ted Kennedy, dies at 51 after workout

Andrew Miga, Jessica Gresko The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 6:12pm

WASHINGTON — Kara Kennedy became teary-eyed when she accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom on behalf of her ailing father at a 2009 White House ceremony, but she also managed to smile as Sen. Ted Kennedy’s life was honored. After the senator died two weeks later following a battle with brain cancer, his only daughter read a psalm at his funeral Mass in Boston. It was about peace and justice and caring for poor children.

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Tony Horton, creator of the P90X workout video, flexes after telling the audience that he was born in 1958. He led a throng of fans in a workout at the Intercontinental Hotel in Addison, Texas, on Sept. 18, 2010.
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P90X workout star draws a crowd

Leslie Barker Garcia

Last updated Tuesday, November 23, 2010 - 2:43am

DALLAS -- Tony Horton -- effusive, energetic, enthusiastic -- bounds into a hotel ballroom on a recent Saturday morning and leaps onto the platform set up for him. The 300-plus people in the crowd cheer when he says he's 52.

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