Can a Breathing Workout Lower Your Blood Pressure?
Working out just five minutes daily via a practice described as “strength training for your breathing muscles” lowers blood pressure and improves some measures of [...]
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Grip Strength is a Sign of Longevity — Are You Losing Yours?
You may not think about it all that often, but grip strength—the ability to hold onto and maintain control of an object for an extended period of time—is critically [...]
How Long Does It Take to Build Muscle?
Everyone knows that bulking up and building strong muscles doesn’t happen overnight. But if after weeks of working hard in the weight room, you flex in the mirror and [...]
Can Restorative Yoga Relieve My Stress?
For someone who’s never practiced yoga, the thought of contorting yourself may be far from your idea of relaxation and restoration. But don’t be fooled-there are [...]
Should You Try Exercise to Help Fight Aging?
Everyone knows that exercise is good for you. But it’s not just beneficial for the young, healthy and already fit. It’s also one of the best defenses against the toughest [...]
Can Short Bursts of Exercise Lead to a Longer Life?
The more steps you take each day, whether they are in short spurts or all at once, may lead to a longer life, a new study suggests. While walking in bouts of 10 minutes or [...]
Is Weight Loss the Wrong Fitness Goal?
All of us have made the right decisions for the wrong reasons at some point in time or the other. Choosing to exercise and diet for weight loss would top that list. Making [...]
Can Exercise Slow Down the Aging Process?
We’ve all heard that exercise is good for us, but do we really understand the benefits that can come from regularly breaking a sweat? Although we must get older (think of [...]
How Do the Longest-Living People in the World Exercise?
In the United States, the average life expectancy is 79 years. It’s only natural, then, for Americans to want to know the secrets of the Blue Zones, five places in the [...]
Does Keeping Fit With HIIT Really Work?
High intensity interval training has become increasingly popular as it’s a quick and effective way to improve health. This is all the more important as countries around [...]
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