Do Women Gain Strength and Muscle Size Differently Than Men?
These days, weight training is almost as popular as women as it is with men. Yes, more women are grabbing heavier weights and pushing their training as a way to grow leaner, stronger, and more defined. No longer is the goal to be skinny. It’s more important to look healthy…
The Pros and Cons of Full-Body Training Routines
How do you structure your workouts? The most popular way to structure strength-training is doing a full-body workout several times per week or splitting workouts up by muscle groups. Full body training means working all muscle groups during one session. With a split routine, you work certain muscle groups on…
Heart Attacks Are on the Rise in People in Their 20’s & 30’s – but Why?
You might think cardiovascular disease is a health problem that rears its ugly head later in life. It certainly shouldn’t show up around the time you’re looking for your first job or working on an advanced degree. After all, it takes time for the arteries that supply blood to the…
Is Consuming the RDA of Specific Vitamins and Minerals Enough for Optimal Health?
If you’ve read a nutrition label, you may have noticed the label states how much of a vitamin or mineral is in each serving of that food. Beside it is listed a %DV or % daily value. This tells what percentage of the recommended daily value that serving provides. For…
6 Ways to Avoid Fitness Burnout When You Train
Fitness burnout can sneak up on you. No one looks forward to every workout, but most of us push through anyway knowing we’ll feel better once the blood starts pumping and endorphins surge through our veins! But, what if you’re procrastinating most days and even finding excuses not to work…
Is Age a Factor in Exercise Recovery?
After a workout, what’s the next step? To recover, of course. Exercise, whether strength training or an aerobic workout, places substantial stress on the body. Once a workout ends is when the real work begins! After strength training, the muscle fibers you damaged must be repaired. Along with this repair,…
When Should You Increase the Weight When You Weight Train?
Weight training has a sweet spot, a point where the load is heavy enough to make gains but not so heavy as to cause injury. Your muscles need enough of a challenge to grow, but you don’t want to grab a weight you can’t handle, pump out reps using bad…
Are There Downsides to Wearing a Fitness Tracker?
More and more people are wearing fitness trackers these days and the number will likely continue to grow. Remember pedometers? Although they’re still around, they now have major competition from trackers that measure everything from the steps you take, how long you sleep, your heart rate at various times of…
Can Having More Muscle Strength Lower Your Risk of Type 2 Diabetes?
Being strong has perks! We need muscle strength to carry out the functional movements we do every day and to help us maintain a healthy body composition. One reason people get old physically is they lose muscle strength and mass. But, being strong has other positive health bonuses as well.…
How Physically Fit You Are May Be a Better Predictor of Longevity Than Other Common Risk Factors
You’re probably familiar with the recognized risk factors for cardiovascular disease, the most common killer of Americans. These include chronic health problems, like high blood pressure, obesity, elevated blood sugar, and abnormal blood lipids. Plus, lifestyle habits, like smoking impact the risk as well. But, according to a recent study,…