Exercise

Pumping Iron: Lighter Weights Just as Effective as Heavier Weights

July 19, 2016

New research from McMaster University is challenging traditional workout wisdom, suggesting that lifting lighter weights many times is as efficient as lifting heavy weights [...]

The Health Benefits of Pokémon Go

July 19, 2016

Do you want to be the very best, like no one ever was? Real-life positive health consequences of playing Pokémon Go — a new GPS-based augmented reality game — [...]

Can Running Make You Smarter?

July 15, 2016

To strengthen your mind, you may first want to exert your leg muscles, according to a sophisticated new experiment involving people, mice and monkeys. The study’s results [...]

Closest Thing to a Wonder Drug? Try Exercise

June 27, 2016

After I wrote last year that diet, not exercise, was the key to weight loss, I was troubled by how some readers took this to mean that exercise therefore had no value. [...]

The Best Inner-Thigh Exercises of All Time

June 21, 2016

Cossack Squat This exercise provides a unique training stimulus for the lower body that will shape your glutes and thighs from every angle, says Jon-Erik Kawamoto, strength [...]

Exercise Lowers Risk for These 13 Cancer Types

June 13, 2016

A large new study confirms that exercise lowers the risk of many different types of cancer, and it goes a step further: It shows just how much the reduction in risk is. [...]

Why Your Job Affects How Much You Exercise

June 13, 2016

When it comes to exercise, for most people the question isn’t whether you should do it, but how much activity you need to improve your health. In the latest study published [...]

Yoga May Be Good for the Brain

June 1, 2016

A weekly routine of yoga and meditation may strengthen thinking skills and help to stave off aging-related mental decline, according to a new study of older adults with early [...]

Can Exercise Cure Depression and Anxiety?

May 9, 2016

At the age of 16, Heather Troupe received a diagnosis of chronic severe depression and a prescription for an antidepressant. Eight years and 20 pounds later, she was sleeping [...]

1 Minute of All-Out Exercise May Have Benefits of 45 Minutes of Moderate Exertion

May 3, 2016

For many of us, the most pressing question about exercise is: How little can I get away with? The answer, according to a sophisticated new study of interval training, may be [...]

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