Over the past 35 years, Melanoma skin cancer rates have actually tripled. Sunscreen helps reduce your risk of acquiring this deadly disease. While we hope we’ve convinced you that according to scholarly research, using sun screen certainly doesn’t increase your chances of getting skin cancer, certain factors can definitely make sun screen more effective in […]
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Poolside Safety: Protecting Your Skin Against Sun Damage, Part 2
While skin damage is certainly not something reserved only for those with backyard swimming pools, those who frequent the pool can certainly be at increased risk for Melanoma as well as other types of skin cancer and types of sun damage, due to increased time out in the sun combined with the reflective properties of […]
Poolside Safety: Protecting Your Skin Against Sun Damage, Part 1
There’s no doubt about it: installing your own backyard swimming pool is an excellent option for those wanting to accommodate — or encourage — a healthy lifestyle, both for themselves and for their friends and family members. However, in addition to other hazards, such as drowning and other water-related injuries and risks, spending extra time […]
Dancer Feet: Foot Care Tips, Part 3
When it comes for caring for your dancer feet, our first and second posts may have you feeling like it’s all about treating ugly injuries! Please don’t think that. You can avoid many chronic foot problems by following these four additional steps. 7. Avoid Dry Feet A good foot moisturizer is worth the space in […]
Dancer Feet: Foot Care Tips, Part 2
The first three steps toward caring for your dancer feet are only the beginning! Today we’ll take a look at three more all-important parts of caring for your 2 most prized possessions: after all, you wouldn’t be able to dance without them! 4. Keep an Eye on Your Big Toes If we had to choose […]
Dancer Feet: Foot Care Tips, Part 1
Technically, a dancing career does not require taking a single human anatomy class. But just like a working knowledge of muscles can be helpful, a complete understanding of the human foot can be particularly significant for any dancer. Did you know that human feet are extremely complex? These relatively small structures actually incorporate 52 of […]
Key Ways Jackrabbit Class Can Help Your Cheer Gym
Your cheer gym deserves 3 cheers for doing what it’s designed to do — inspiring young cheer students to excel in their skills! All too often, though, cheer gym owners and managers lose sight of their main goals, because they can so easily get distracted with the myriad tasks related to day-to-day management of their […]
Key Ways Jackrabbit Class Can Help Your Swim School
Your swim school is making waves in your community, training swimmers to hone their skills and compete against themselves. No doubt, the character training and physical fitness you’re inspiring will benefit your students throughout their lives! But perhaps you’ve started to lose sight of the big picture — and who can blame you?! The everyday […]
Key Ways Jackrabbit Class Can Help Your Gymnastics Academy
Your gymnastics academy does a great job doing what it’s designed to do — instruct and inspire budding gymnasts! However, sometimes owners of gymnastics academies just like yours can get distracted from their main focus because of the many management tasks required. Jackrabbit’s co-founder, Mark Mahoney, helped create this online class management software to help […]
Tips for Cutting Back on Sugar, Part 2
In Part 1, we discussed the importance of determining a plan — either going through a complete detox or a weaning schedule — for cutting back on sugar. Once you’ve determined what will work best for you, you need to anticipate going through a form of withdrawal. Now, we’ll explore more of what sugar withdrawal […]
