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FIRSTNUTRITION.COM TOO MUCH TV CAN SLOW YOU DOWN CAN MUSIC KEEP YOU FOCUSED? AUGUST E-NEWSLETTER Taking your tunes work gym can keep you motivated to push harder than Walking to school,to the or even the gym, how fast is your typical pace? A study of adults in the Unitedbeat, but abetween 48 and 92 years of age sugyou might have without the Kingdom study published in the British Jourgests the amount of time you spend watching TV can have a significant nal of Sports Medicine suggests there are positives and negatives to tuning in while running the slopes on a snowboard.in the journal Medicine impact on walking speed. Findings were published & Science in Sports & Exercise. Researchers randomly interviewed snowboarders and analyzed the circumstances of injuriesresponses from 8,623 subjects enrolled in ski seaResearchers analyzed during the 2008 to 2009 and 2009 to 2010 the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer between 1998 and in thethen sons at a terrain park in Canada. Of the 1,594 subjects used 2000 study, again from 2006 to 2007. They of the injured subjects were listening to 333 were injured. Although 69 found a strong correlation between time music while skiing, 425 uninjured subjects were also plugged in. Listening spent watching television and typical walking speed. Those who watched to music while riding a snowboard decreased the chance of getting inless than 2 hours a day walked significantly faster than those averaging INTRODUCING jured,thanincreased the odds of in front ofbeing serious. more but 4 hours a day parked an injury the TV. PRO SERIES True Strength Moment: You put everything you've got into every athletic If you aren't sprawled on the couch watching TV, endeavor. For personal safety it's important some form of head in the chances are you're on your feet engaged in to keep your activity. Whatgame. Don't let the motivational aspect of spring in yourother it's likely to ever that activity is, if it's helping to put a music or any step distraction getmore rewarding than anything teamcould be watching on the tube. tobe the better of you. For a tip on you sports injury prevention, read day's Performance Blog post at ABBperformance.com ON NOMINATED FOR 22 SUPLPEMENT AWARDS