One of the major draws for people who take up running to keep in shape is how little is needed. There’s no fancy equipment or expensive memberships to worry about — just lace up your sneakers, throw open the front … Continue reading 9 Running Tips for Beginners
Swimming is a sport that many of us seem to do often when we’re young but then slack off on as we age. According to statistics, children swim more than adults, and in past generations, people tended to swim more … Continue reading Health Benefits of Swimming and Workouts to Try
Both supination and pronation are terms used to describe the rolling motion of the heels and feet during the body’s gait cycle, which takes place as we run or walk. Supination describes the rolling outward motion of the foot, therefore … Continue reading Do You Suffer from Excess Supination? Here’s How to Fix It
Despite what you may see on Instagram, yoga is not about twisting yourself up like a pretzel and standing on your head. It’s about connecting the breath and the mind. And that’s great news for everyone, including older adults looking … Continue reading Chair Yoga for Seniors: A Gentle Routine to Improve Mobility
All too often we find ourselves experiencing aches and pains in our bodies, especially in the low back. If you find yourself commonly searching for remedies for fast back pain relief, it may be time to investigate the psoas muscle. The … Continue reading Psoas Muscle: Is a Weakness the Cause of Your Back Pain?
By now, everyone knows there are numerous benefits of exercise, and one of those benefits includes the potential to extend life. This is even true for people who are already in their 60s and 70s. In fact, recent research published … Continue reading Can Running, Strength and Other Exercise Help You Live Longer? Yes
As of early 2022, the pandemic continues, meaning it’s time once again to figure out how to exercise during a pandemic, including outdoors. That means working out in the cold. Is it bad to work out in cold weather? As … Continue reading Benefits of Working Out in the Cold (Plus Safety Tips)
High-intensity interval training , also called HIIT workouts, have become known in the fitness and medical world as one of the most effective means of improving cardiovascular health, respiratory endurance, as well as metabolic function. Research shows that HIIT workouts … Continue reading HIIT Workout Benefits and Sample Routines
When you’re counting your daily steps, are 10,000 enough for you — or maybe too many? Learn how walking can help improve your health and how to set the right goal. You’ve just gotten a new activity tracker and you’re … Continue reading 10,000 steps a day: Too low? Too high?
Aug. 31, 2022 – People who lift weights understand they’re playing a long game. Once they get past the “newbie gains” – the quick and exciting increases in muscle strength and size – it takes time, effort, and patience to … Continue reading How Strength Training Can Help You Live Longer
You wouldn’t know it by looking at me today, but as recently as 2011 ago I was living a completely unhealthy lifestyle. For years I’d struggled with my weight and had no understanding of how to live a healthy, balanced … Continue reading Starting a Fitness Routine That Works for You
Lower Back Pain: How Exercise Helps 1/15 You may feel like resting, but moving is good for your back. Exercises for lower back pain can strengthen back, stomach, and leg muscles. They help support your spine, relieving back pain. Always … Continue reading Exercises That Can Help Ease Back Pain
Whether you’re trying to burn fat or gain muscle, what you do in terms of exercise, diet and the time you rest in between workouts makes all difference. We all know that working out is great for boosting strength, slimming … Continue reading Muscle Recovery Do’s and Don’ts for Optimal Fitness
The benefits of exercise are undeniable, no matter when you decide to get your workout in. However, recent research reveals that there seems to be an optimal time of day for exercise – and it actually appears to differ for … Continue reading Research Examines Optimal Time of Day for Exercise
Are you thinking of getting a gym membership for your child? Are you wondering what is the right age for joining the gym? Gym class is a good place to build self-confidence and adopt a healthy lifestyle. Knowing the right … Continue reading Right Age for Your Child to Join a Gym
When nicer weather returns, it’s exciting to move your workouts outdoors, adding plenty of fresh air and scenic sights to the experience. However, working out in the heat can cause dehydration and overheating when it’s not done with caution. There … Continue reading Tips for Working Out in the Heat Safely (Plus Its Benefits)
Have you ever heard that balancing on one leg is linked to overall health and even a longer life span? It’s true — studies show that being able to support your body weight on one leg for at least 10 … Continue reading Balancing on One Leg for 10 Seconds Tied to Better Health
It’s early in the morning, like, the sun-is-just-starting-to-peek-into-the-day type of early. You want to pull the covers up over you head and sleep a little more, but you can’t because cycling instructor Robin Arzón is 900 miles away, setting up on … Continue reading Peloton Bike: The Most Addictive Exercise Machine on the Planet
Imagine if you could do effective exercises in only 10 seconds, anywhere, anytime … without any equipment. This is absolutely possible with isometric exercises, which are perfect for anyone who wants to tone muscles and gain strength in a way … Continue reading Why Isometric Exercises Belong in Your Workout Routine
1 / 15 Go for It: Pilates It’s a low-impact workout that focuses on your core — your hips, back, and abs. It uses your own body as resistance and taps into the mind-body connection. Pilates builds strength, makes you … Continue reading The Best and Worst Workouts, According to Science
I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with exercise. That is until I started researching how powerful it really is. When I was about 6 years old, my father would take me on morning runs on the side of a busy … Continue reading Being an Exercise Researcher Taught Me to Rethink My Own Fitness
Nurturing a lifelong love of movement and physical activity in children is a goal of many parents and caregivers. Unfortunately, less than 24% of American children ages 6 to 17 get 60 minutes of physical activity daily, which is the … Continue reading 12 Tips to Inspire a Love of Movement from an Early Age
It’s can be tempting to skip the stretching aspect of training when you feel like it’s not providing any real payoffs. However, a large body of research shows that there are in fact many benefits of flexibility exercises and stretches … Continue reading Benefits of Flexibility and How to Become More Flexible
More than 39.5 million Americans (that’s 1 out of 5!) — and 3 of every 10 Americans in families earning more than $75,000, and a full quarter of women — regularly wear a smart watch or wearable fitness tracker, according … Continue reading Do Fitness Trackers Help You Become More Active?
Yoga is a go-to remedy to reduce tight-muscle tension. But there’s so much more to it. For instance, today we can actually see how yoga changes your brain. And while it’s true that sometimes we put too much focus on … Continue reading Best Yoga Poses for Your Gut to Transform Your Health
Frozen shoulder (also referred to as adhesive capsulitis) is a condition often diagnosed when someone experiences ongoing shoulder stiffness and pain that lasts at least several weeks at a time. It’s most likely to develop when inflammation increases around the shoulder due … Continue reading Frozen Shoulder Symptoms, Natural Treatment and Exercises
Can 10 minutes of exercise a day really have an effect on longevity? It can be difficult to discern what advice is right these days. Exercise science is a relatively young field. That’s why it feels like every day there’s … Continue reading 10 Minutes of Exercise a Day Could Save Your Life if You’re 40+
There are two comments about my body that I’ll never forget. One was from a guy I briefly dated, who told me that my soft belly wasn’t “that bad.” Another was from a roommate who said that for as often … Continue reading 3 Organizations Promoting Radical Acceptance
Osteoporosis is a condition that affects the bones. Its name comes from Latin for “porous bones.” The inside of a healthy bone has small spaces, like a honeycomb. Osteoporosis increases the size of these spaces, causing the bone to lose … Continue reading Osteoporosis and Reducing Your Risk
Whether you’ve hit a workout plateau or you’re just ready to turn things up a notch, adding more strenuous exercise — also known as high-intensity exercise — to your overall fitness routine is one way to increase your calorie burn, … Continue reading Strenuous Exercise: Benefits, Examples of Vigorous Activity
Regular exercise is one of the best things you can do for your health. In fact, you’ll begin to see and feel the benefits consistent physical activity can have on your body and well-being quickly. However, working exercise into your … Continue reading How to Start Exercising: A Beginner’s Guide to Working Out
When most of us think of stretching, we picture simple static stretches — like bending forward to touch our toes or lifting a bent arm back behind us to stretch our shoulders. There’s a whole other category of stretches, called … Continue reading Dynamic Stretching Benefits, Exercises and When to Do It
One of my favorite types of exercise routines is the interval cardio workout! That means that whatever cardio workout I choose, I’m not opting for steady state cardio (basically, staying at the same moderate intensity level for a length of time) — … Continue reading Interval Cardio Workouts Burn More Fat than Conventional
Fitting in exercise is hard for everyone. Hearing what keeps other people going can help you find your “why” too. Does it ever feel like the only message you hear about exercise focuses on what you can lose (i.e., weight)? … Continue reading Why I Exercise: Different People on What Keeps Them Going
6 Steps to Recovering from a Running or Athletic Injury 1. Rest the Area The first thing you want to do is rest the area, at least for 72 hours (which may be hard for you exercise diehards). For example, … Continue reading How to Recover from Common Running Injuries
It can feel overwhelming when you’re trying to make time for exercise. Here are some tips I give my physical therapy patients… and how I manage to keep myself moving. I get it. We’ve all said, “Who has time to … Continue reading 10 Ways to Move More Every Day, According to a Physical Therapist
Don Saladino is a New York-based personal trainer and member of the Men’s Health advisory board who has helped numerous stars get into peak physical shape to play superheroes on the big screen, including Hugh Jackman for Wolverine, Scarlett Johansson … Continue reading Trainer Shares Best Life Hacks to Burn Fat and Get Shredded
Swimming is a sport that we seem to do often when we’re young and then slack off on as we age. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in fact, 36 percent of children aged 7–17 years old swim at least … Continue reading 3 Swim Workouts and 8 Benefits of Swimming
While it might not be as physically challenging as other types of yoga, such as Ashtanga or Bikram yoga — and it may not “count as exercise“— restorative yoga can still have big payoffs in terms of promoting overall health. … Continue reading What Is Restorative Yoga? Benefits, Poses and How to Do It
There is nothing like standing in line at the grocery store only to be surrounded by glossy magazine covers of perfect, chiseled abs. Glistening, rippling six-packs all blur together into one massive reminder that your waistline could probably stand some … Continue reading Ab Workouts & Best Exercises That Are Not Crunches
It looks like America is getting the memo: The benefits of yoga are well worth it. A 2012 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) concluded that almost 10 percent of all Americans, or over 21 million people, now regularly practice yoga … Continue reading Yoga Benefits, Types and Precautions
Whether you’re already an avid hiker or mostly new to hiking, you’re probably curious about how this type of exercise can benefit both your physical and mental health. The good news is there are plenty of health benefits of hiking. … Continue reading Benefits of Hiking for Body and Mind
Because stress is such a common impedance to getting good sleep, you can see why sleep meditation can be helpful for so many people — considering that surveys have found that stress affects 77 percent of people enough to impact … Continue reading Sleep Meditation Benefits and How to Do It
Yoga has many benefits during pregnancy, including building pelvic strength and preparing your body for labor, but there are some yoga poses to avoid when you are expecting. Your body is simply not the same when you are carrying a … Continue reading Yoga Poses to Avoid During Pregnancy
It’s well known that proper run form will help prevent running injuries. But what we sometimes fail to realize is that we need to work on proper run form outside of our runs. And if we do contract a running … Continue reading Internal and External Hip Rotation for Runners
The muscles of the legs, including the gluteus maximus, span across three joints: those of the hips, knees and ankles. The large muscles of the legs have the primary role of supporting the hips and core— including the pelvis region … Continue reading Gluteus Maximus: Best Exercises & Stretches
Joints form the connections between bones. They provide support and help you move. Any damage to the joints from disease or injury can interfere with your movement and cause a lot of pain. Cause of Joint Pain Joint pain is … Continue reading Joints Pain: Causes & Relief
Is it okay to workout on an empty stomach? Ultimately, it depends on your body composition, goals, overall health and preferences. Working out while fasting, also called “fasted cardio,” does have some advantages — such as potentially leading to more … Continue reading Fasted Cardio: Benefits vs. Drawbacks
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