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How I Got This Body
How I Got This Body: A skier for all seasons
How I Got This Body is a regular feature about real people and their quest for fitness. In the latest edition, we take a look at Gene Kay, a skier for all seasons. Updated May. 15, 2012
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King of the Kettlebell
Helping introduce the heavy-weight fitness regimen to the United States is just part of John Du Cane's lifelong pursuit of well-being.
Full storyFull story Updated May. 8, 2012
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How I Got This Body: Happy together
For the past four years, Don Potter and his German shepherd, Reina, have raced up and down hills on an almost-daily basis. They are, he says, "a perfect match" as workout partners.
Full story Full story Updated May. 11, 2012
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How I Got This Body: Care to dance?
Inspired by her late brother, Karen Bushee is fulfilling her dream to dance around the world.
Full story Full story Updated Mar. 27, 2012
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St. Paul curler is cool as ice
As a child, Cassie Potter loved to hang out at the curling club in her hometown of Bemidji, Minn.
Full story Full story Updated Mar. 12, 2012
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Chocolate is sweet salvation
Need another reason to eat chocolate? A Bulgarian scientist who reinvented her life in Minnesota says that eating fine, responsibly raised cacao can save the world.
Full story Full story Updated Mar. 9, 2012
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Diving right in to fitness
How I Got This Body: Scott Smith's diving career began at 7, when he started jumping off houseboat roofs. Today, he coaches and competes.
Full story Full story Updated Mar. 5, 2012
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With fitness, start with what you can manage
You know you should exercise -- but you don't do it. Here's advice that's easy to take: "Don't be so hard on yourself."
Full story Full story Updated Mar. 3, 2012
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She's taking care of fitness
How I Got This Body: Before her son was born, Erin Arifin worked a sedentary office job. But staying home with her son, Matthew, now 20 months, has been a surprising fitness and wellness boost.
Full story Full story Updated Feb. 15, 2012
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Meet your guide to full year of fitness
Charlotte Hilton Andersen has been trying out a different fitness program every month for five years. You might think by now she'd be running low on new workout ideas.
Full story Full story Updated Jan. 11, 2012
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A year of getting fit
Here are 12 workouts to try in 2012. That's one per month, math fans!
Full story Full story Updated Jan. 10, 2012
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'Star Wars' turns 35 today -- and a fan obsesses
As "Star Wars" celebrates the 35th anniversary of its release today, we take a look at a fan who's been obsessed with the film all of his life -- all 19 years of it.
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A poison control center that takes calls from Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota says it's gotten a handful of distress calls over children swallowing a new kind of laundry detergent packet.
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Minnesota's 'biggest loser' pays it forward
O'Neal Hampton is launching a nonprofit to help others lose weight.
Full story Full story Updated Mar. 14, 2012
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Interactive: 50 who make a difference in Minnesota food
Our seventh-annual celebration of the individuals rocking the local food scene.
Full story Full story Updated May. 24, 2012
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A whale of a time in Manitoba
Paddling with belugas, boating next to polar bears: these are the joys of summer in Churchill, Manitoba.
Full story Full story Updated May. 19, 2012
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Summer brain drain?
Keep your children actively learning for the next three months and they'll be ahead of the pack in the fall.
Full story Full story Updated May. 19, 2012
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Stylepoints: Political posturing
Plus: A Q&A with astrophysicist and beauty blogger Bailey Brown
Full story Full story Updated May. 23, 2012
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