Unhealthy smartphone habits to give up
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This constant checking of our electronic devices can chip away at your overall ability to concentrate and in eroding long-term focus.
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Why physical activity tranforms your life
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Are you looking for a meaningful change that not only sustains you mentally but emotionally and physically as well?
Read More5 ways training for a 5K motivates fitness
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You have to ask yourself, “why,” as in “why do I want or need to get hot and sweaty when I’m perfectly happy where I am and besides, what’s my goal?”
Read MoreEat Early To Lose Weight
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“Eating only during a much smaller window of time than people are typically used to may help with weight loss,” said Courtney Peterson, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Nutrition Sciences at UAB. “
Read MoreRunning For Your Brain
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MRI scans show that the brains of those who exercise have greater functional connectivity than the brains of more sedentary individuals.
Read MoreShould You Be Wearing Compression Stockings
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Compression stockings gently squeeze your legs to move blood up towards your heart preventing discomfort and leg swelling.
Read MoreStretch To Maintain Flexibility
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You routinely do your cardiovascular workouts along with lifting some weights but wait, you may be leaving out one very important component of physical fitness - stretching.
Read MoreNo Resting for Concussions
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If you grew up playing any kind of contact sport at all, there's a good chance you suffered a concussion one time along the way.
Read MoreEasing Into Exercise When Obese
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Anyone who is overweight to obese knows they should be exercising. They hear it all the time.
Read MoreWorkout Tips For Winter
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Keeping oneself fit during warm sunny days is easy. But brutal brisk winds, cold air and snowy days heralding in winter can also bring an end to your regular workout sessions.
Read MoreKeeping your shoulders in tip top shape
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The most flexible joints in our body are our shoulders. Their incredible flexibility also makes them the most commonly injured joints as almost every one of us will experience some kind of shoulder issue during our lifetime.
Read MoreBeat Belly Fat Without Exercise
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If exercise is not your thing and yet you have excess belly fat that doesn’t want to budge, is it possible to lose your muffin top without resorting to breaking a sweat?
Read MoreGet Inspired To Exercise
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According to the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition, Americans can do a much better job of exercising and being physically fit.
Read MoreIs This The Best Exercise for Your Abs?
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Fun Anatomy Fact: Your “six pack” (if you have one...) is actually one long muscle. Called the rectus abdominus in the doctor books.
Read MoreTake Time For Squats
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Squats may be thought of as an exercise for the legs but it actually benefits the entire body including the all-important core muscles deep within the abdomen.
Read MoreSagging Skin After Weight Loss
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It is one thing to lose excess weight achieving a healthier body mass index (BMI) but it’s another thing dealing with excess sagging skin after.
Read MoreBehavior & Weight Loss
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If losing weight or maintaining weight loss has been unsuccessful, do you know why?
Read MoreNewbies Guide To Strength Training
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Strength training – weight lifting, or “pumping iron,” if you insist – remains the quintessential manly sport. That doesn't mean women can't be or aren't weight lifters.
Read MoreWeight, Exercise & Testosterone
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According to findings from a new study presented at the Integrative Biology of Exercise 7 meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, overweight to obese men using a combination of healthy eating and exercise significantly increased their level of testosterone.
Read MorePushups - The Perfect Exercise
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Let’s pretend for the next two weeks you’re allowed to do only one exercise. What should it be? If you said “push-ups,” you answered correctly.
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