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Initially, it appears that this mouse doesn't really get exercise wheels. On further review, though, it might just be that the little guy is thinking outside the box and trying to offer a new take on what the exercise wheel can be. You're doing it wrong, little buddy, but you're doing it wrong with a lot of heart, and sometimes, I like to think that's what really matters.

Running makes for great exercise and keeps your heart healthy, but overdoing it by running more than an hour per day, or running multiple marathons, can actually shorten your life, according to a recent editorial in the journal Heart. As someone who feels that running is a very good thing to do if you are being chased -- by a mob of villagers with pitchforks, for example, or an angry bear -- and a very silly thing to do pretty much any other time, I'm going to abstain from the customary victory lap and just sit back feeling pretty vindicated right now.

In case you weren't aware, bicycle helmets can prevent fatal injuries and diet and exercise can sustain weight loss. This is what two separate studies have concluded. Let me repeat: Two distinct scientific studies determined that bicycle helmets can prevent fatal injuries and diet and exercise can sustain weight loss. This is something someone decided needed careful examination, because it's not like there are fatal diseases out there.

Just when the Internet was able to get images of popular workout device the Shake Weight out of its collective head, the Free Flexor arrives to resume the innuendo-drenched assault on your sensibilities. Using something called "circular strength technology" the large, red spheres of the Free Flexor apparently makes your muscles contract a whole lot. Which I guess is helpful. There is every possibility that this is fake -- the website looks shifty enough to go either way -- but the video for the product will not leave you wanting. Except possibly wanting a cigarette. Or a shower. Or to throw your computer out the window. Read on below!

Sick of drinking flavored water after a long, arduous workout? Two new studies from the University of Texas at Austin show that you can now ditch hilariously-endorsed drinks for one that both seems unhealthy and uncomfortably sloshes around in your stomach. Dr. John Ivy and his team of researchers compared the recovery benefits of drinking a typical carbohydrate beverage with similar calories and ingredients to a sports drink, a low-fat chocolate milkshake, and a calorie-free drink after an exercise session, and found that the athletes who drank the chocolate milkshakes had more endurance and power during their exercise. Move over Twinkie diet, here comes a new challenger.