Is your workout getting you nowhere? Research and lived experience indicate that many people who begin a new exercise program see little if any improvement in their health [...]
Starting a new workout routine is hard for everyone, but it can be especially hard if you are overweight or obese. The best exercises for overweight people and the best [...]
Until recently, many scientists believed that exercise reduces the body’s ability to fight off infections. Past studies had found, for example, that after workouts, [...]
With readouts on cardio machines and fitness trackers, counting calorie expenditure has become part of the human condition. And until recently, the conventional wisdom was [...]
When you hop on the treadmill at the gym, you want to make sure your run is as efficient as possible. Consider this 30-minute treadmill workout routine a fat-blasting, [...]
Many experts tout sugar as public health enemy number one. Considering eating too much of it can lead to obesity, heart disease and diabetes, the title does make sense. Also [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
If you find yourself trying to shed pounds that just don’t seem to budge, it’s easy to get discouraged or feel like you’ll never reach your goal weight. But [...]
New research casts doubt on the commonly held belief that taking more exercise always helps you lose weight. A study in the journal Current Biology suggests that if you jog [...]