It's a bird! It's a plane! It's ... a celebrity flying through the air! Check out this video to see who Fitz is training with and take your training to new heights.

To find out more about this celeb, read on!

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If you frequently travel by plane, you're putting your body at greater risk of a silent killer. Those long periods of inactivity -- legs scrunched up behind the seat in front of you and your arms held tightly to your body because the person next to you is stubbornly refusing to give up even a quarter inch of the arm rest -- aren't exactly healthful for your body.

Frequent fliers run the risk of a condition called Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT). In fact, the condition has two travel-related nicknames: Traveler's Thrombosis and Economy-Class Syndrome. DVT is a condition where a blood pools and forms a clot in the calf, thigh, or less commonly in the arm. If you travel a lot or are planning a long flight, keep these DVT prevention tips in mind:

• Get up and move. Don't need a bathroom break? Visit the loo anyway and march in place for a few minutes. Even a quick stroll up and down the aisle will do.
• Ankle circles. Rotate your feet at the ankle both clockwise and counter-clockwise.
  

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I'm good when it comes to exercising on my own turf. I have a treadmill at home, a bunch of steep hills in my neighborhood, a good outdoor running course, a bike, a garage full of fitness gadgets, and a gym nearby. Give me these luxuries and my workout routines rarely fall short of my expectations. But put me in a hotel or in someone else's house and I get a little anxious about fulfilling my personal fitness goals. Now that I've located this gem of a video, though, I think I'll be OK next time I'm swept out of my comfort zone.

Just click on the top right thumbnail when you arrive at this Austin Fit Magazine website and you'll come face-to-face with fitness expert Sara Stewart who demonstrates five different exercises for use on the fly. Do them at home, in a park, in a hotel -- Sara does them at the Hilton in this video -- and plan to give just 10 to 20 minutes to this total workout. You'll need a JC travel band -- it fits in closets or entry doors -- and of course, you'll need this lesson on how to properly execute the Squat to Pull, the Back Lunge to High Pull, the Push-Up to Arm Raise, the Kneeling High to Low Pull, and the Core Rotation.

Ready to get started? Click here.

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I work weekends as a wedding photographer and during the summer, strapless dresses are all the rage. I love the strapless look but there's often a bit of flab hanging out over the top of the dress in the back, which means some stealthy editing ahead for me. Even without strapless dresses, we sometimes can see a bit of fat hanging over the top or bottom of a woman's bra, or some rolls on the backside of her waist, even though she's wearing a shirt. We often don't think of our back as being flabby because unlike our stomachs, our hips and our thighs, we don't see our back when we look in a mirror. But just because we don't see the flab, doesn't mean it's not there. A little bit of toning in your back can make the difference between flab-overhang and totally fab.

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Aaron Dallas, a man from Colorado who recently took a trip to Belize, was told by a specialist (a specialist!) that the painful bleeding bumps on the back of his head might be shingles and he was given a variety of lotions and topical treatments to try. None of them worked, and the bumps only got worse. Why? Because they were bot fly larvae! Mr Dallas was quoted as saying "I'd put my hand back there and feel them moving. I thought it was blood coursing through my head." He also said he could hear them and thought he was going crazy.

Okay, so I've totally got the heebie jeebies! It's bad enough to have this happen (I guess bot fly infections are not uncommon in some parts of South and Central America) but for a doctor to think it's shingles? Get a new specialist.

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Researchers have discovered a fountain of youth, in a manner of speaking, for the fruit fly. At first you're probably thinking why on earth would we want longer living flies? The good news is that the researchers were able to extend the lifespan of fruit flies by modifying only one genetic protein, which means inhibiting the aging process in humans may be much simpler than previously thought.

Fruit flies with the modified gene saw 1/3 longer lifespans with no apparent side-effects (although measuring side-effects in a fruit fly can't be easy or very accurate), so if the same were true for humans we could all theoretically live to around the 110-120 yr old range regularly.

Cool or scary? A little of both, I think.

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There may be a prescription for jet-lag coming on the horizon, and from an unlikely source too. Viagra was shown to reduce or prevent time-change fatigue in recent tests on hamsters, which obviously opens a whole new potential way of dealing with the frustrations of long distance travel.

The active ingredient in Viagra, sildenafil, affects a messenger molecule that has to do with circadian rhythms and the body's internal clock -- higher doses of sildenafil means higher sensitivity to light differences and faster adjustment to changes.

The tests only included male hamsters, so the next step is "co-ed" testing and then on to mice. But maybe not that far off into the future the nasty side-effects of jet-lag will be curable with a little blue pill.

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