After menopause, women may respond differently to exercise, and these differences may make it harder to stay metabolically healthy. Find out what a new study shows about the way blood vessel adaptations to exercise differ between pre and post-menopausal women.
Can sitting in a steam room improve your health and sense of well-being? Science suggests that spending time in the warm, humidified environment of a steam room has health benefits. Read on and discover five ways relaxing in a steam room can improve your mental and physical health.
While there are many exercises you can do with resistance bands, there’s one you might not be doing that offers benefits you might not be currently getting. It’s called a band posture pulls.
With so many terms relating to movement and physical fitness, three terms that many people confuse are the difference between exercise, physical activity, and fitness. In this article, you’ll learn what the differences are and how they apply to training.
Body weight has an impact on developing a number of health problems. Does it also accelerate brain aging and increase the risk of cognitive problems and dementia? A new study suggests that it does and offers a possible reason why.
Strength training and getting enough dietary protein is important for reducing the loss of muscle mass due to aging but could getting more vitamin C offer an advantage too? Here’s what a new study shows.
Stress fractures are painful and take up to 8 weeks to heal. Your best bet is to prevent them whenever you can. Here are five ways to lower your risk of an inconvenient stress fracture when you train.
What limits your performance during a workout? More often than not, it’s fatigue. Read on and discover five ways to reduce exercise fatigue when you work out. Doing so can improve your performance and make exercise more pleasurable.
If you’re like most people, you eat an occasional cheat meal. Once you’ve enjoyed a meal of pizza or other food, you wouldn’t eat routinely, you get back on track. But have you ever wondered what impact a cheat meal has on your metabolic health? Find out.
You’ve completed your workout, but your heart is still racing. What does this mean, and does it have implications for your health? Here’s what research shows about heart rate recovery and what it says about heart health.
Hypertension is one of the most common health problems, and the risk of having high blood pressure increases the age. What you might not realize is where you store most of your fat may determine your risk. In fact, having more leg fat may work in your favor.
Strength training helps you stay strong and functional, but can it also improve your brain power and slow brain aging? Find out how strength training affects cognitive function and memory based on science.
