| | Are You Losing Muscle While You Workout?
Muscle tone versus weight loss. For fitness buffs, it’s a constant conundrum. Balancing weight training, cardio and fat loss can deliver key results – and a healthier life. More |
| Avoid Common Fitness Pitfalls
Exercise is good. Too much exercise can hurt you. Start slowly, pace yourself, set reasonable goals and start your work out. Drink plenty of fluids and eat well –you’re your new fitness regimen could suit you well. More |
| | Can I Be Exercising too Much?
Like much in life, exercise is a matter of balance. Too little, and the benefits are limited. Too much, and injury can occur. Learn the warning signs of too much exercise and help prevent the risks of over-exercising. More |
| Competitive Yoga… Really?
There is something new to yoga; it is not a new pose or a new mantra, no, it is new way to practice. Rather than practice alone or in a group setting these new practitioners are taking it to the stage More |
| | Cooking School and Healthy Workplace
Who wins when an employer has a worksite health promotion program – the employer, the employee or the community? Actually, all three enjoy significant benefits – often at a minimal cost. More |
| Exercise or Diet
Is diet or exercise more important in staying fit? Both are. Diet is important for weight loss, but exercise helps keep the weight off. Exercise won’t keep cookie-borne pounds away; not eating cookies in the first place will. Learn your limits and balance your needs. More |
| | Fat Shredding Workout
If you’re hoping to get ‘beach ready’ with a good workout regimen, grab some tunes, comfortable attire, and learn the right exercises to tone your body and shed the fat. More |
| Finding Time to Exercise
Think you need to join a gym to get a good work out? Think again. Take the stairs, park farther from the office door, go on an active date – there are plenty of activities that can add action to otherwise mundane, slow events. More |
| | Get A Beach Body In Just Six Weeks
If you work hard and set your mind to it, you can make big transformations to your body in time for summer fun. Don't worry, while these changes will require dedication and work no crash dieting or excessive workouts are required. More |
| Help my Handicap: Exercises for Golfers
Sports specific exercises are best. For example, before a round of golf, it is best to work on golf flexibility by doing golf stretches. The following are some free golf stretches you want to hold for at least twenty seconds each: More |
| | How "Nutritionally" Smart Are You?
What’s a vitamin? What’s a mineral? And why are Americans spending almost $3 billion a year on them? Learn how added nutrition via a pill can be beneficial – and when it might not be recommended. More |
| How Did 'Aerobics' Become an Exercise Class?
Many people credit Jane Fonda with the start of the modern fitness craze. Yet it was an Air Force Sergeant who coined the term “aerobics” back in 1968. Today, it’s central to an entire industry – and state of well being. More |
| | How Do I Know if My Child Has a Weight Problem?
There’s no simple answer to the question of whether a child has a weight problem – or whether they’ll ever outgrow excess weight. Working with a physician, watching the child’s diet, and encouraging exercise can be the start to a healthy life. More |
| How Do Muscles Grow?
Knowing how your muscles grow can help you better understand anatomy, physiology and how to craft a healthy exercise regimen to help grow muscle and shed fat. More |
| | How Important is Structured Exercise Versus Increased LifeStyle Activity
Activity should fit the lifestyle, not the other way around. Working out or exercising will be more rewarding if it fits how you live and the schedule you live by. Don’t force it. Make it slide into your lifestyle. More |
| How Many Calories Are Burnt During Exercise?
Different sports burn different quantities of calories. How much you’re burning depends on your sport, your exertion, the duration of your workout and your body dynamics. More |
| | If You Could Turn Back The Hands of Time With a Supplement, Would You Do It?
You’ve heard about human growth hormone being used by athletes. It’s also created naturally in people. The right diet and exercise can encourage creation of HGH, helping you feel younger, stronger and more invigorated. More |
| Increasing Your Fiber Intake May Help You Eliminate Calories
Obesity is an epidemic. Fiber could be the solution. This natural and plentiful product from fruits, vegetables and grains can help people control their diets, weight – and lives. More |
| | It Is Ok to Become Lightheaded or Nauseas During a Workout?
During a workout, the heart pumps, the blood flows and the body feels differently. Whether nausea or lightheadedness is a problem sign differs by individual. Learn how to determine whether a doctor visit might be recommended to rule out problems. More |
| My Muscles Sore After Stretch, Am I Doing It Wrong?
Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness – or DOMS – can occur for many reasons: muscle damage, muscle reinforcement, or the poorly conditioned people exercising after weeks or months of inactivity. Ramp up your exercise to stave off DOMS. More |
| | Need a Reason to buy New Clothes? And Other Non Life-altering Reasons to Get Healthy
Your doctor can give you plenty of reasons to get into shape. What about the more subtle reasons: Clothes that don’t fit, playtime with the kids that leaves you short of breath, even the lack of will to walk past a buffet. Change your ways – and change yourself. More |
| Personal Fitness: You Do Have Time
So much to do, so little time. If your exercise regimen (or lack thereof) is borne from excuses related to time, plan your schedule differently to carve out a few hours a week – even if it’s just for a walk. You’ll be healthier and happier for it. More |
| | Protein and Perfect Body: Can You Have Too Much Protein in Your Diet?
Diet, supplements and protein – they’re not just for body builders and fitness buffs. Read through our questions and answers on protein and you. More |
| Should My Child Do Gymnastics?
Gymnastics offers a variety of benefits. Young gymnasts can stay with the sport through adulthood, learning body awareness, flexibility, fitness and even perseverance. Some studies show gymnasts also enjoy greater bone density – but, as with any sport, also can suffer serious injury. But like many sports, gymnastics done well is a healthy activity. More |
| | Think It's Too Hard to Be Healthy? Think Again!
If you've been fretting that it's just too difficult to be health conscious, these tips are sure to change your mind. With a simple attitude adjustment and the application of even a few of these tips, you'll be on the more-healthy path in no time. More |
| Top 10 reasons People Don’t Work Out...
Fear. Stigma. Cost. Slow results. Why don’t many people work out? Pick an excuse. Each reason (excuse, actually) can be remedied with a little thought or planning – or a simple phone call to enlist a friend to join you. Stop with the excuses. Get started today. More |
| | Use It or Lose It? Is It True?
The sad reality is it’s easier to lose muscle tone than to build it up. With even slight physical activity, enzymes can be released, encouraging muscles to grow – and delivering the desired appearance in just weeks. More |
| Using Your Child as Training “Equipment”
Turn bonding time with your child into work-out time together by doing “weight lifting” with a child as the weight, or stretches or exercises with the child as the resistance. Give, “family time” new meaning. Just make sure you’re cleared for the workout… More |
| | What is Wellness?
What is ‘wellness’? Would you know what wellness felt like if you were the picture of health – or suffering from poor health? More than the absence of disease, well is a state of being. More |
| What to do if you have adult incontinence
Do you remember that first moment you were wetting yourself and there was nothing you could do to stop it? Sometimes life comes at you and you just have to treat it like an ordinary day. Here is an article that will show you the best way to deal with adult incontinence. More |
| | Will Exercise Make Me Tired?
Exercise can cause lethargy or exhaustion. But so can a host of medical reasons related – and unrelated – to exercise. Nutrition, sleep, even your attitude can affect whether you’re tired. Learn how to spot various signs, and if conditions persist, consider seeing a physician. More |
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