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The Principles of Exercise
Regardless of fitness goals, it is always good to learn about the principles of exercise and how these can help us reach those goals.
Why is Exercise Important?
If you don't exercise, your muscles will become flabby and weak. Your heart and lungs won't function efficiently. And your joints will be stiff and easily injured. Inactivity is as much of a health risk as smoking<br>Helps Prevent Diseases<br>Our bodies were meant to move -- they actually crave exercise. Regular exercise is necessary for physical fitness and good health. It reduces the risk of…
How Exercise May Turn White Fat Into Brown
Exercise may aid in weight control and help to fend off diabetes by improving the ability of fat cells to burn calories.
10 tips for exercising safely
What can improve your mood, boost your ability to fend off infection, and lower your risk for heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and colon cancer? The answer is regular exercise. It may seem too good to be true, but it's not. Hundreds of s...
How Exercise Fundamentally Changes Your Metabolism
This Is What Happens to Your Brain When You Exercise
How to find out when happens to your brain when you exercise. What your mind to stay fighting fit and your concentration to improve, then follow this advice.
How to Exercise While Sitting at Your Computer
For many people, being glued to a desk with a computer is a part of their daily routine. But sitting at the computer all day may not be good for your body or mind. It may cause backaches due to poor posture, discomfort from lack of...
How to Become a Morning Exerciser
Follow our step-by-step plan to make it easy to fit in a workout first thing in the morning.
How to Exercise Safely
Fitness is important, but exercising safely is just as critical. Learn how to to properly warm up before and cool down after your exercise program.
How Exercise May Energize Brain Cell Function
(Johns Hopkins Medicine) As we age or develop neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, our brain cells may not produce sufficient energy to remain fully functional. Researchers discove…
25 Easy Ways To Fit In 10 Minutes Of Exercise
Squeeze these quick calorie-burning exercises into your busy schedule to stay motivated
6 Fitness Tips For Newbies That Will Make Exercise Manageable AND Fun!
Being new to working out can be terrifying. Walking into a gym and seeing a room full of equipment that looks to you like Medieval torture devices, can be enough to send you running. Never mind the fact that everyone seems to know what they are doing while you stand there feeling lost and confused. You may think you are the only person left on the planet who has yet to be initiated into this community but that is just plain untrue. While…
How Regular Exercise Helps You Balance Work and Family
A reduction in stress is tantamount to an expansion of time.
Stopping exercise for 10 days can decrease brain blood flow
Stopping exercise for 10 days can reduce brain blood flow by 20% to 30% in eight brain regions, including the hippocampus, which is responsible for learning and memory and is one of the first brain regions to shrink in Alzheimer’s disease.
Exercise Tips for Seniors
Exercise Tips for Seniors Follow these tips to start - and maintain - a safe exercise program. 1. Get medical clearance. Before you start exercising, visit
How to Breathe During Exercise
When should you inhale and exhale while lifting weights? Should breathe through your nose or mouth when you run? What's with the special breathing in yoga and Pilates? Get answers from the experts!
Why You Need to Warm Up Before Exercising
Taking the time to warm up will actually help you work out harder, feel better and reduce your likelihood of injury.
20 Exercise Safety Tips for Diabetics
Exercise can improve your health and your outlook on life. Check out these exercise safety tips for diabetics.
Should Lack Of Exercise Be Considered A Medical Condition?
To help fight rising rates of inactivity, a physiologist argues that doctors should write prescriptions for exercise for inactive patients.
Hate to Exercise? How to Find Exercise Types You'll Like
Do you hate to exercise? You might not have tried the right type yet. WebMD tells how to find exercise that you'll enjoy and stick with.
Why Exercise Won't Counteract The Effects Of Sitting All Day
I admit it. I'm a standing addict. I use a standing desk when I see patients; at conferences my spot is always in the back so I can roam the edges of the room; at restaurants I own the bar seat so I
