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...Riders say horse sharing is a relatively inexpensive way for a young person to move from a once-a-week lesson to a bigger commitment, and it works for owners too. Computer consultant Kate Bushman, 40, of Boylston, Mass., will half-lease her aging Thoroughbred to a thrice-weekly rider and buy a horse suitable for jumping competitions. After a layoff eliminated her six-figure salary, she says, "I can't justify paying for two horses." A stall and food at a stable with a winterproof indoor ring cost $600 to $1,000 a month--not including shoes, shots, worming...
...sale on a lunch break from her job as a phone-company sales manager. After a year of twice-a-week sessions, Kelly's lower-body strength improved 41%, and her upper body improved nearly 86%. Now retired, Kelly has added Rollerblading, dancing and white-water rafting to her thrice-weekly sessions of aerobics and weight training. "At my age, there isn't anything that I can't do," she says. "Exercise has changed the way I live...
Because muscle weighs more than fat, Curves measures success in inches, not pounds, lost. In a month of thrice-weekly visits, Holding shed 8 1/2 in. total from her arms, legs, hips, waist and bust. She decided to buy a franchise while continuing to work as a real estate agent, spending $65,000 to set it up in a shopping center, and enlisted daughter Diana, 36, to manage it. Within three months, Holding's Curves had 400 members. As Diana rapidly shrank from a size 22 to a 12, shedding 48 in. from her figure, she decided to open...
...suggested that we take a stroll. Those paths near our dacha in Zhukovka, they witnessed so much. "We've never talked about this," I said. "But I must tell you now: I might become one of the candidates. You know, I've tried to quit politics thrice. But it has become the cause of my life. If they do nominate me, I can't shirk it. The people have been watching for too long, watching their leaders passing away one by one. If we offer them another one like that, we should all be fired. Is our generation a generation...
...softball team. "I was thrilled," he says. "Both for myself, because I'd have somebody to work out with, and as a father." Though the athletic Rebecca, now 16, has since shed 40 lbs. and met her fitness goals, neither father nor daughter has any plan to stop the thrice weekly workouts. While some parents at first may have to push their younger kids to go to the clubs, before long it can be the other way around. "We like going together. I can work out, and they can be on their own, which they love," says Candace Ferguson...