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Take A Hike: A Monthly guide to Volksmarching in your area

VOLKSMARCHING NOTES Many thanks to readers Pat and Cheryl Patterson for continuing to provide brochures. Got a comment? Found something you’d like to correct? Want to change ‘unknown’ to a useful trail description? Write me at volksmarch@gmail.com with the subject “Feedback.” Interested in volksmarching but not sure how things work? […]

June 6, 2013 ×

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Minimalist Running: Should you go barefoot?

Minimalist Running: Should you go barefoot?

Courtesy of Ramstein Health and Wellness Center

Minimalist footwear, or barefoot-style shoes (for basic protection from sharp and hazardous materials), have become increasingly popular among runners.

May 31, 2013 ×

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Runners start the 28-kilometer forest run from the sports field of the technical university in Kaiserslautern to Diemerstein April 28, 2012. The second forest run will begin at noon Saturday.

University sponsors run, hike, park fest

The Technical University Kaiserslautern will sponsor its second forest run, called “Uni-Villa-WaldLauf 28,” from the university’s sports field to Villa Denis in Diemerstein Saturday. The UVL28 is a 28-kilometer-long run with an altitude difference of 400 meters. The event will end with a park fest in Diemerstein.

May 23, 2013 ×

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Michael Bates, an exercise physiologist at the Ramstein Health and Wellness Center, correctly demonstrates proper body alignment and back posture during the dead lift.

Deadlift: Proper technique can reduce injury

There is one exercise that can, if repeatedly performed poorly, lead to injuries of “lumbago,” or lower back injuries — it’s the deadlift.

May 23, 2013 ×

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Magencio Sembrano, Heather Ricks and Treston Henry cross the finish line during Baumholder’s Fallen Soldier Memorial Run 
May 17.

Baumholder honors fallen Soldiers

Story by Ignacio “Iggy” Rubalcava U.S. Army Garrison Baumholder Public Affairs

Baumholder honored its fallen Soldiers May 17 during their annual Fallen Soldier Memorial Run. More than 200 runners, walkers, strollers and dog walkers showed up for the annual run.

May 23, 2013 ×

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Marine 1st Lt. Daniel Kim, boxer, receives a left jab to the face May 11 in Wiesbaden. U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden hosted the 2013 Installation Management Command-U.S. Forces Boxing Championship.

US forces top boxers brawl it out in Europe

With lights overhead shining bright, the crowd roaring for action and the referee yelling fight, brave men and women slugged it out to be named champion in their respective weight class.

May 17, 2013 ×

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Photo by Cesar Alvarez
Sarah Clum, Ramstein Health and Wellness Center health and fitness specialist, performs sled training as high intensity interval training.

HIIT improves fitness in no time

Would you like to intensify your workouts? Have you reached a plateau and don’t know what to try next? Would you like to get the benefits of an hour-long cardio workout in a fraction of the time?

May 17, 2013 ×

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Inter-Nation Sports Championship games

Inter-Nation Sports Championship games

Airmen from the U.S. Air Forces in Europe men’s and women’s basketball teams pose for a group photo during their last training day May 9 at the gymnasium on Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England.

May 16, 2013 ×

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Running: Where do you get the motivation?

Running: Where do you get the motivation?

by Michael Bates Health & Wellness Center exercise physiologist It’s 5 a.m. and the alarm is blaring. Do you hit the snooze or do you pop out of bed, lace up your running shoes and head out the door? What motivates those dedicated runners who get out of bed every […]

May 10, 2013 ×

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Upgrades at Sembach gym improve workouts

Upgrades at Sembach gym improve workouts

A few months ago, when Pvt. Benjamin Myers first walked into the post fitness center to workout, the military police Soldier found weightlifting gear crammed into a corner of the basketball gymnasium.

May 10, 2013 ×