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Marianne Clark calls it "the dance." First, you whip off your work pants and quickly pull on the sweatpants. Then you attempt to put on your sports bra while still wearing your sweater or blouse, all while hiding behind the gym locker door.

Over the past five years pre-adolescent and teen gym memberships have increased by 2.9 percent a year — and the 6-to-11 age category has almost doubled since 2005.

Enjoying an iced coffee? Better skip dinner or hit the gym afterwards, with a cancer charity warning that some iced coffees contain as many calories as a hot dinner.

Today is the third week of our annual USA TODAY Weight-Loss Challenge, and this week we’re profiling Ebony Lugo, 23, of New York City. She has lost almost 50 pounds. She goes to the gym to work out, but at...