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The impression you make.


As a runner runner or stolon, slender, creeping stem capable of taking root where its nodes touch the ground and thereby producing new shoots. The runner itself usually dies at the end of the season, leaving independent new plants.  you enjoy many benefits for health, fitness, weight control, mood, and more. Here's an addition to the list you may not be aware of--you create a good first impression. Using 627 men and women, researchers provided descriptions of a young man and a young woman as either an "exerciser" or a "non-exerciser." No reference was made to exercise for controls. Participants rated the individuals as described on 20 different variables that essentially constitute the impression or public image of the individual. The exercisers consistently scored higher than controls, while non-exercisers scored lower than controls. Exercising is a real benefit for social success and non-exercising is clearly a liability according to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3.
 this research. Society holds lower esteem for sedentary sedentary /sed·en·tary/ (sed´en-tar?e)
1. sitting habitually; of inactive habits.

2. pertaining to a sitting posture.


sedentary

of inactive habits; pertaining to a fat, castrated or confined animal.
 individuals and high regard for those who are fit and healthy--yet another perk perk 1  
v. perked, perk·ing, perks

v.intr.
1. To stick up or jut out: dogs' ears that perk.

2. To carry oneself in a lively and jaunty manner.
 for runners.

(Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2000, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 283-291)
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Title Annotation:first impressions of runners
Publication:Running & FitNews
Article Type:Brief Article
Date:Nov 1, 2001
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