Make sure you get your entry for Run Melbourne, presented by The Age, in before the heavily discounted early bird entries close at 5pm Friday 12 June!

Run Melbourne is really building momentum with less than three weeks until event day. This year, we expect more than 18,000 runners and walkers to join in the challenge and fun of the day at Federation Square and around many of Melbourne’s major landmarks.

Remember, if you enter before 5pm tomorrow, you will go in the draw to WIN one of five 2XU prize packs RRP $400! For 2XU’s full range of Run Melbourne merchandise at cheaper than retail prices, visit the Run Melbourne website.

So, to make big savings and for your chance to WIN, ensure you get your early bird entry in now!

For more information visit: www.runmelbourne.com.au

By: Chris Chew

Have you taken up swimming as an exercise to help you to lose weight? If you are, you are not alone because most people think that swimming is effective way to tone muscles and lose weight. This is why the public swimming pools everywhere are always packed in the evenings and on weekends.

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By: Irene Levy

Today aerobic exercises and fitness are very much beneficial for you in more ways than one. There are numerous aerobic exercises that can be followed today for optimum health like bicycling, swimming, walking and jogging. With aerobic exercises, you are sure of aerobic strength, fitness and flexibility in the body.

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Water aerobics is one of the many types of aerobics exercises available today. Aerobic actually means with oxygen and aerobics exercises make use of the large muscle groups in our body in order to maintain them over a period of time and aerobics are also performed in a rhythm. There are many variations of aerobics exercises and one of them is the water aerobics exercise which is performed in chest level deep water.

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Since 1970, the aerobics exercise has become increasingly popular. Hundreds of aerobics exercise videos were sold. There are many different kind of aerobics exercise being performed all over the world.

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An increasing number of Australian adults are overweight or obese, according to the latest national health survey. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) report for 2007-2008 shows one-quarter of adults are obese, while 37 per cent are classified as overweight. This marks a significant increase from the last time body mass index data was surveyed in 1995.

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After working out at Gold’s Gym in Venice for over ten years it was not uncommon seeing bodybuilders, and fitness buffs carrying gallon jugs of water around from machine to machine. Over the years we have all been taught to drink lots of water. Drinking water is believed to help your system burn more body fat, improve skin tone, and even expel toxins from your kidneys. At least that is what has been accepted at truth for decades.

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Neotral has enetered into the Run Melbourne fun run and is raising money for MND (Motor Neurone Diisease). At the moment there are 3 runners. If you would like to join us please enter through the Run Melbourne website and put Team Neotral in. http://www.runmelbourne.com.au/start.php. Please also drop us a line to let us know you will be running under our team.

If you would like to make a small donation please click on here and you will be taken to the Run Melbourne website.

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If you’re finding it hard to motivate yourself to get your training into full stride then the Re-Creation Health Club training sessions held at Federation Square for the 12 weeks leading up to Run Melbourne, presented by The Age will surely get you on the road to a PB. Meeting at The Atrium in Federation Square on Flinders Street, opposite the Forum Theatre, you will be guided through a short warm-up by our expert run leaders and then led on training runs tailored to the 5km, 10km and half marathon events.

More information on the RunMelbourne website