Quick Vacation Workout

This ultra-quick workout targets the major muscles of the body for a quick, efficient workout.  This won't take the place of a complete total body program, but it's great for maintaining fitness without spending a lot of time exercising.  For this workout you'll need a light-medium weight resistance band and a chair.

• Warm up with a few minutes of walking in place
• Do each exercise for about 1 minute (add more sets if you have time)
• Go slowly to really work your muscles
• If you don't have a resistance band, use full water bottles as dumbbells or nothing at all

Pushups  Pushups work your arms, chest, abs and back and you don't need any equipment. Do them on your knees (easier) or toes and keep your back straight (no sagging) and your head in neutral alignment. Keep abs tight as you lower and exhale as you push back up. Do as many as you can for one minute and move on.

Plie Squats w/ Resistance Band Stand with feet wider than shoulders, toes turned out and resistance band stretched beneath feet. Keeping the band taut, lower into a plie, keeping knees in line (and behind) toes and curl arms up, lower back to 90 degrees and squeeze butt to stand up. Repeat for 1 minute.

One-legged Squat with Shoulder Press Stand with right foot on band and left foot lifted a few inches off the ground, holding onto a chair for balance. Bend knee and lower into a slight squat (butt back, knee behind toe) then raise right arm straight up over head. Do about 16 and switch to the other side.

Deadlift with Band Row Stand on band and pull it tight, hands in front of thighs. Keeping back flat, tip from the hips and bring hands down the legs to mid shin. While you're down there, bend elbows and pull them up to your ribcage, contracting the back. Tighten butt to lift back up. Do as many as you can bear and move on.

Tricep Dips  Find a chair or solid object and sit on it with hands next to hips. Move hips in front of chair and, keeping butt close to the chair, bend the elbows and lower a few inches. Don't sink into the shoulder or lower past 90 degrees. Do a whole bunch and get ready for your last exercise.

Side Plank Ab Twist Lie on your side and push up so that your body is supported by right hand (or bent forearm), feet stacked. Straighten left arm and sweep it down, twisting your body and turning shoulders towards the floor (hips don't move). Do it on the other side and then hit the beach.

From Paige Waehner,
Your Guide to Exercise.
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Updated: June 5, 2007

Get outdoors with GOogle Georgia!

6/17/2008 11:02:00 AM

Posted by Maureen Schumacher, GOOGLE Regional Sales Director, Atlanta

Our Atlanta office recently teamed up with the Parks, Recreation and Historic Sites Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to support an initiative called Get Outdoors Georgia (GO Georgia). An effort to help Georgians get outdoors, get fit and enjoy their diverse natural resources, the initiative focuses on family-friendly, nature-based, healthy outdoor recreation opportunities throughout the state. As a founding sponsor of the program, Google will offer consultation on products including AdWords, Analytics, Maps, Earth, Picasa, Gadgets and a branded YouTube channel

According to a 2007 report from the Trust for America's Health, Georgia is one of the "heaviest" states in the union, ranking 14th for adult obesity and 12th for overweight children (16+ percent of its youth overweight or obese). We're pleased that our products will play a part in an historic effort to improve the health and well-being of all Georgians. And today, we're expanding our relationship with GO Georgia by spending a day in Panola Mountain State Park. Atlanta Googlers will help to restore the park and remove growth not indigenous to the area, improving the experience for Georgians and other visitors when they get out and visit the park.

For more info on this forward-looking new program, visit the GO Georgia site.

Travel portals hit heights as biz travel slows down

23 Jun, 2008, 2130 hrs IST,Vishakha Talreja , ET Bureau

NEW DELHI: The slowdown in the business travel market is making at least one industry sub-sector happy––travel portals like Makemytrip, Yatra, Cleartrip and Travelguru. Major players in the online travel market say that they will break-even by end of this fiscal thanks to dip in corporate travel which has led to cheaper deals for that these portals on hotel bookings.  Though majority of transactions on these portals are for air-tickets ,hotel bookings, which offer higher margins, is catching up fast. For instance, over 90% of Travelguru's Rs 250-crore yearly sales comes from hotels, whereas it accounts for 10% of Yatra's Rs 513-crore turnover.  Explains makemytrip CEO Keyur Joshi, "As there is a liquidity crunch in the market, not many new players have entered the online travel industry this year, that could have further crowded it. Also as corporate travel is dipping, the tophotel chains, which did not consider makemytrip and the likes earlier, are now supplying us the inventory to get leisure tourists."  The website, which claims sales of over Rs 1,000-crore in 2007-08 , hopes to break-even in the next few months. Adds an Indiatimes official : "The air-ticket space has been cluttered . Portals are now offering accommodation , cruises and packages which have a higher propensity to make money , improving portals bottomline."  Also Read à Sikkim on a mission to woo tourists à India eyes becoming top tourist destination for Chinese à Rich Indian tourists making a beeline for Malaysia à Revised estimates put tourism earning at $9.16 bn à Foreign tourist arrivals on rise Online space witnessed mushrooming of travel portals around two-three years back. But with rising customer awareness about e-travel overtime, travel portals also intend to cut down on their advertising & marketing spends, and this will also help shore up their bottomlines faster. Says Cleartrip CEO Sandeep Murthy ; "In the last three months we have cut our marketing cost significantly . Around 70% of our customers are repeat clients."  Agrees Travelguru CEO Ashwin Damera ; "Marketing cost this year will be much lower. With global economic slowdown , we know that venture capitalists will be stingy with their money (either for new ventures or follow-up funding) travel websites are not spending excessively on marketing absurd schemes to attract customers" .  Most of the travel portals have opened travel shops, and their sales (and profits) includes revenue from the offline medium as well. For instance Yatra has opened Yatra lounges in malls and is bullish on them. "We now are a sales of over Rs 100-crore a month. We will end up covering our cost in the last quarter of this year," says Yatra co-founder Dhruv Shringi.