Are your fitness goals conflicting? Are you unknowingly making it harder to meet your goals by the type of exercise you’re doing? If you’re trying to build lean body mass, doing extra long periods of steady-state cardio may be sending the wrong signals to your muscles and making it difficult for them to grow. Find out why.
Feeling comfortable with a fitness routine is important but getting TOO comfortable can lead to stagnation, mental fatigue and plateaus. This article talks about why workout variety is important and some of the ways you can vary your exercise routine.
Exercise recovery is important for fitness gains and muscle growth to take place. It’s during “down time” that muscles repair so that change can occur. A number of factors can impact exercise recovery. This article discusses five of those.
Aerobic training has been linked with improvements in brain health and cognition – but what about resistance training? Can it make you smarter or improve your cognitive function? Get the scoop on resistance training and how it impacts the health of your brain.
Are you looking for a different approach to working your muscles? Have you reached a plateau and want to change your routine? Discover the benefits of pyramid strength training and how it can help you get stronger and more defined.
No doubt resistance training builds a more toned, defined body, but it does a lot of things you can’t see. New research shows that, like aerobic exercise, it can improve your metabolic health by its effects on hormones like insulin. Find out how resistance training impacts metabolic health and how you can get the most benefits.
If you’re feeling a little anxious, make a stop at the gym or work out to a strength training DVD at home for some resistance training. New research shows it helps to reduce stress and anxiety, and it does it without medications. Is strength training a natural anxiety reliever?
There are lots of good reasons to exercise. Most people do it to look better and control their weight, but a new study suggests that being fit becomes even more important as we approach middle-age. Find out why midlife fitness should be a priority during mid-life and what the benefits can be.
You probably work out mainly to build lean body mass but resistance training does more than give you muscle definition. It also builds bone density. Is resistance training better for boosting bone density than aerobic workouts? Find out the answer, and discover what type of resistance training is best for reducing the risk of osteoporosis – and whether it’s ever too late to get the benefits.
Exercise can reduce the risk of health problems. It can also prevent some loss of lean body mass and drop in metabolism that occurs with age. Now a new study shows that a combination of lower-body strength training and balance exercises can reduce the risk of falls and injuries as we grow older. Discover why it’s important to work on lower-body strength and balance – and a simple test to see how good your sense of balance is.
Think the only good reason to exercise is to firm up your body? Even if you’re satisfied with your physique, working up a sweat can slow down Father Time. Here are five ways exercise slows down the aging process.
Who doesn’t want to keep burning fat even after they stop working out? When you work out intensely, your metabolism remains high for hours after an exercise session due to a phenomenon called EPOC or the afterburn effect. Most people think that you get a significant afterburn only after high-intensity aerobics – but what about resistance training? Does resistance exercise create an afterburn too?
