Exercise
10 Trends in Fitness and Nutrition for 2014
January 7th, 20142014 will be a year of opposites. While the glitterati and the media that cover them extol the virtues of “aerial training” and juice fasting, the greater population will continue to gravitate toward common sense nutrition and functional fitness.
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Jump Start Your Weight Loss in 2014
January 3rd, 2014The holiday season has come and gone, and with it came the all-too-common extra weight gained from all of that celebratory food and drink. Try using this simple 4-step program to shed those pounds and more, in twenty-one-four.
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5 Ways to Improve Your Sleep
November 19th, 2013As many as 95% of Americans will experience insomnia at some point in their lives. Since even one bad night can have negative health effects, taking steps to get all 40 winks is a good idea.
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Improve Your Workout By Not Doing This
November 7th, 2013Newly published research supports what experienced fitness professionals have known and taught for years – eliminate pre-exercise stretching to improve your workout and reduce injury.
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Diabetes: Preventing the Most Preventable Disease
November 1st, 2013November is National Diabetes Awareness Month. The occurrence of Type 2 diabetes has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. By following this simple plan you can prevent becoming a casualty of this chronic, debilitating disease.
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The Baby Weight Wars
October 17th, 2013How much weight you gain during pregnancy matters – your health, your child’s growth and development and your ability to return to a healthy, pre-pregnancy weight depend on when, how much and how fast it happens.
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5 Lesser Known Breast Cancer Facts
October 2nd, 2013October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. To help educate those interested, five lesser known facts about breast cancer are revealed.
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When Are You Too Old to Exercise?
September 11th, 2013For many years conventional wisdom said that as we age we hit a point where exercise is no longer safe or effective, and there will come a time when we should give it up. When researchers put this postulate to the test, the results were unexpected.
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A Handful of Reasons Why Your Diet Will Probably Fail
July 17th, 2013In 2013 over 100 million people in the U.S. will spend more than 20 billion dollars on weight loss programs and products. The sad truth is that no matter how much they lose in the short run, six months after they stop dieting they will have gained all of that weight back – and probably more.
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Jogging vs. Swimming: Which Is the Better Activity for Physical Fitness?
July 9th, 2013Swimming and jogging are both popular activities in the summer, and are shown to provide longer life and make you feel better. But which is best and why?
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