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Sounds to snorkel by
Advertiser Staff
You won't be able to get "Good Vibrations" out of your head if you swim with a new gadget called the Aqua FM Snorkel. It's a bit pricier than your average snorkel (it retails for $129-$139), but this one brings music to your ears — through your teeth. Bite down on the mouthpiece to tune in to your favorite FM radio station.
To order online, go to www.tzsports.com, or look under "where to buy" at www.aquasphereusa.com.
Aqua Sphere swim products are available on O'ahu at Island Triathlon and Bike, Kailua Sailboats & Kayaks and Hawaiian Waters Adventure Park. On the Big Island, try Hawaiian Pedals or Big Island Divers, both in Kona.
Killing calories
Looking for a new start to a fitness routine? The editors of Fitness magazine share quick and easy calorie zappers:
1. Create your own boot camp and do a series of jumping jacks, sit-ups and push-ups. Time to burn: 25 minutes.
2. Walk on the treadmill at a 4-mph pace. For a challenge, set it to a 5 percent incline. Time to burn: 30 minutes.
3. Put on some tunes and shake your groove thing on the dance floor or just in front of your mirror. Time to burn: 30 minutes.
4. Take a belly-dancing class — your abs will thank you! Time to burn: 30 minutes.
5. Give Fido a walk, then get out the hose and lather him up for a bath. Time to burn: 1 hour.
Firming up your faith
Not sure what your "real" spiritual foundation is? Were you "born Taoist, married Christian and died a Buddhist," as people often joke about Hawai'i residents?
There are ways to help you clarify your faith boundaries:
• Click on www.belief.net's "Belief-o-matic" quiz and you can see if you are, as we recently learned, really a liberal Quaker, with unitarian universalist rising.
• Check out "The Unauthorized Guide to Choosing a Church" (Brazos Press, $18.99), Carmen Renee Berry's book that leads readers through "the liturgy, the lingo and the lunacy" of today's churches. (Be sure to check out "Top 10 Signs You are in the Wrong Church," including "The church bus has gun racks" and "the Bible they use is the Dr. Seuss version.")
• See your clergy. They ought to know if you've gone off the dogma deep end.
