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Rake Your Leaves, Don’t Break Your Back

The bright colors of red, yellow, and orange leaves hanging from the trees this time of year only means one thing…raking leaves. This activity, while being tedious and a necessity to keep your lawn healthy, can also take its toll on your body. Raking leaves requires a great deal of upper body and core strength and endurance […]

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Beware of the Pitfalls of Fall and Winter

When the leaves falling are telling you to grab a rake and get the yard clean, consider how easy it is to make the wrong moves and hurt yourself. Raking requires upper body strength and endurance. Warm up to yard work by exercising your primary muscles that include biceps, deltoids, rotator cuff, forearm and parascapular […]

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