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The top two teams in Group A of the round-robin CONCACAF finals meet on Wednesday night as Costa Rica hosts the United States. The top three teams in the group will qualify for the World Cup and so far both the United States and Costa Rica are in good shape. Wednesday’s match should be an interesting one considering the U.S. leads the group with seven points, one point better than Costa Rica.

Costa Rica is a -140 favorite with a total of 2.5 under at most bookmaker .

The United States has never had any success at Costa Rica so the match promises to be difficult. The news that defender Frankie Hejduk is questionable and midfielder Maurice Edu is out definitely doesn’t help the United States. American coach Bob Bradley said that Hejduk may not be fit enough for Wednesday’s match in San Jose. One player that could be back in the lineup though is forward Jozy Altidore who had three goals in the qualifier against Trinidad and Tobago. “Jozy has been in training over these last few days,” Bradley said. “Obviously, he has not played a competitive game in a while, but I think he’s done a good job.”

The United States will be playing two matches within four days as after Wednesday’s qualifier at Costa Rica they play Honduras in another qualifier on Saturday in Chicago. The United States is also preparing for the eight-team Soccer Betting Confederations Cup in South Africa. That should be a great competition considering the United States is in a group with defending world champion Italy, five-time world champion Brazil and Egypt.

In the last seven qualifiers at Costa Rica the United States has not won a match going 0-6-1. That could mean that the United States plays it very close to the vest on Wednesday, trying for a draw. The match on Saturday against Honduras could be where the United States focuses their attention. The United States also has five players that are carrying yellow cards in Altidore, Michael Bradley, Hejduk, Clint Dempsey and Oguchi Onyewu.

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Costa Rica is 18-1-2 at the Saprissa since 2000. They are led by playmaker Walter Centeno who can still pressure a defense. “I’ve been impressed with the way he’s played in recent qualifiers,” said U.S. assistant John Hackworth, “I don’t think he’s come down [in form] at all. He’s still someone who can play at this level, and he’s certainly an important player for them.”

As little as one hundred years ago people were much more physically active on a daily basis than we are today. With modern technology and automation there is little opportunity to do anything remotely resembling vigorous activity either at our work or at home. We sit most of the time, in our cars, at our job and back at home maintaining our addiction to a screen of some kind in our leisure time.

Our adaptable human bodies can cope with this sedentary behavior when we are young but once we get past 30 years old we will some start to notice the repercussions of our inactiveness. Regular vigorous activity is critical throughout our life to keep our body and mind functioning at a high enough level to give us a reasonable quality of life.

There is no getting around it, without exercise all of the essential elements of functional fitness will decline. As the years pass and we continue to live like this activities that were once easy start to become harder and more difficult so we are less likely to continue doing them.

This is the start of a downward spiral of increasing less activity and an increasing loss of physical function that can stretch for years (or decades) continuing until disability sets in.

This situation stems from the loss of vital muscle tissue after age 30 which is accelerated by not enough strength building and maintaining activity. Our lifestyles do not have any of this type of ‘work’ left in them to keep us strong and fit.

Muscle loss caused by a sedentary or inactive lifestyle opens the door for a host of other physical conditions and ailments with the immune system weakening so we become vulnerable to the risk of serious disease.

It is hard to believe that anyone knowing these facts would continue down the same path of inactivity either ignoring or denying the mountain of evidence proving that our bodies need the stimulation of vigorous movement to remain strong and healthy. It costs so much less to stay strong and fit in money, time and effort terms than it does treat and manage illnesses and disease brought on by not living a healthy lifestyle.

Maybe we need to stop focusing on just the present, just getting through the day, then the week but instead we need to consider how our exercise decisions today and tomorrow will affect us down the road. Surely a strong, fit, fully functional body that doesn’t hurt and can cope with any activity that we wish to do would be a good goal to aim for.

That can easily be achieved with a couple of sessions each week of a proper exercise program made up of mainly strength training exercise. This is the only type of exercise that will slow accelerated aging and premature and preventable disease.

Forget misleading information that says you just need to go for a walk and that is enough. Come on now, we all have legs and we all walk. This is not a proper exercise program and never ever can replace one.

The many benefits that you will enjoy as you become stronger and fitter are – better sleep, stress reduction, easier weight control and sharper mental functioning. In all the quality of your life will be greatly improved along with your general wellbeing in many other ways. You will also have the protection of a reduced disease risk.

Strength training exercise is a risk free anti-depressant, guaranteed to lift the spirits and put a smile on your face as you watch your strength and muscle tone grow and your energy levels soar. Your body weak and flabby from all that sitting will become firm, lean and trim.

Never let your strength and fitness slip as you get busy with your life as they are essential to your good health. And good health should be at the top of the list of priorities so you can get the most enjoyment out of our precious one and only life.

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