Can an Amino Acid Prevent Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness?
If there’s one thing we’d like less of its sore muscles after a workout! On the other hand, muscle soreness is a sign that you’ve worked your muscles harder than they’re accustomed to. That’s good because challenging your muscles can facilitate growth. But it would be nice to feel a…
What is Blood Flow Restricted Training, and Does It Boost Muscle Hypertrophy?
Bodybuilders are always looking for tips, strategies, and techniques to make their training more efficient. We all want more strength and muscle hypertrophy for the time we spend training, right? Consistency is important, but so is varying the way you strength train periodically. One technique that researchers have looked at…
Is It Possible to Warm-Up TOO Much?
Warm-ups are the part of a workout most people skimp on or do incorrectly. They want to get to the meat of the workout as quickly as possible. For good reason! Most of us are short on time but still want big results. But warm-ups have a useful purpose. They…
Compelling Health Benefits of Exercise You Don’t Have to Wait For
We all like instant gratification! Who doesn’t want to start a new habit and see benefits right away? It’s clear that exercise has long-term health and fitness benefits. For example, aerobic exercise, over time, causes adaptations to take place in your cardiovascular system and blood vessels that make your heart…
Weight Training: Low Reps or High Reps for Weight Loss?
Cardio burns more calories than weight training, so you should do more cardio to lose weight, right? It’s true that unless you’re doing low-intensity cardio, you burn more calories doing during a cardio workout than you do lifting. How much of a difference is there? A person weighing 160 pounds…
What Are the Best Exercises for the Hamstring Muscles?
Regardless of your gender or your fitness level, you need to focus on strengthening your hamstrings. However, women may need to give their hammies a little more attention than the guys. Why might this be? Women are at higher risk of developing an ACL injury relative to men. An ACL…
How Strength Training Could Help You Get a Better Night’s Sleep
You probably don’t weight train to improve your sleep habits. It’s more likely you do it to slow down muscle loss, build strength, and look fabulous in a pair of leggings! But better sleep may be an additional perk of working your body against resistance. First, we know that quality…
New Study Reveals How Body Composition Impacts Your Breast Cancer Risk
Are you at high risk of developing breast cancer? Cancer of the breast is a disease that many women fear, but, fortunately, if you catch it early, it has a good prognosis. Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in American women, but only about 10% of women diagnosed…
Exercise is Good for Your Brain but What Type is Best?
Chances are, you don’t exercise solely for the health of your brain. You do it to improve your body composition and the health of your heart, right? But, your brain benefits from a heart-pumping, sweaty workout too. The odds of developing dementia increase with age, and with people living longer,…
Is It Ever Too Late to Improve Your Aerobic Fitness Level?
Is it ever too late to get aerobically fit and improve your aerobic fitness level? We’d like to think that no matter when we start on our fitness journey that we can improve how fit we are from a cardiovascular perspective. One measure of a person’s fitness level…