Can Stretching Your Legs Help Prevent Heart Disease?
New research published today in the Journal of Physiology shows that 12 weeks of easy-to-administer passive stretching helps improve blood flow by making it easier [...]
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Can Lifting Weights Help Your Nervous System?
Gym-goers may get frustrated when they don’t see results from weightlifting right away, but their efforts are not in vain: the first few weeks of training strengthen [...]
Running for Weight Loss? Here’s How!
If you’re wondering why all that running hasn’t helped you slim down, here are some things you need to know. Running is often the first thing that comes to mind when we [...]
Can You Work Out While Intermittent Fasting?
Intermittent fasting refers to a diet schedule that cycles between not eating and eating. Cycles of intermittent fasting can be hourly or daily. People may choose to fast for [...]
How Well Do You Know How to Walk?
Chances are, you learned to walk when you were just a toddler and you haven’t really thought about it much since. It’s easy to nerd out on other fitness activities, like [...]
Why is it So Difficult to Lose Weight?
Why is it so hard to lose weight? It’s a question many, if not most, people have asked themselves, probably on many occasions. Aside from the obvious — food is [...]
Does Exercise Really Help With Weight Loss?
Participants adhering to a calorie-restricted diet who exercised approximately 1.5 hours per week for 1 year had about the same amount of weight loss as those on the same [...]
How Many Steps Do You Need to Maintain Your Weight?
If you’ve decided to get serious about your weight-loss goals, you already know that focusing on eating healthy and exercising more are two of the core things to [...]
How Many Calories Do You Burn Doing Household Chores?
Need to burn a few calories? If you’ve been eating more and exercising less these days, becoming more active can be key to avoiding stay-at-home weight gain. You don’t [...]
What Do You Need for a Basic Home Gym?
I love the gym and never thought a time would come when I’d need to… (gasp!) work out at home. The problem is there’s only so much you can do without equipment. [...]
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