The majority of cholesterol circulating in your blood is what your body has made. But if you have more cholesterol than what is healthy, excess amounts of it can stick to the inside walls of your arteries, narrowing them, and increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Read MoreLast year in 2016, the Sports and Fitness Industry Association stated that more than 700,000 people regularly participated in barre programs in the U.S.
Read MoreWalking may look and appear easy but it’s not for everyone. Some people find walking as a form of exercise to be agony and simply too painful.
Read MoreThere are three benefits walking provides that particularly stand out – reduced mortality, reduced heart failure risk and improved cognitive functioning.
Read MoreBoxing as a sport requires a high level of athletic prowess of strength, speed, agility, hand-eye coordination, endurance, and nerve.
Read MoreThe following 10 fitness tips may not be on your workout radar but they are meant to encourage, advise, and inspire you to keep up the good work and effort on promoting your health:
Here are 10 suggestions to inspire and ignite your creative fitness juices on planning a healthy summer vacation:
A 2016 study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine agrees with this. This study examined the link between six different type of exercise and the risk of early death.
Read MoreRegular exercise or physical activity is beneficial to heart – it can lower your risk of heart disease, improve cholesterol, lower your blood pressure and help with weight loss. But is this still true if you have atrial fibrillation?
Read MoreThe more you incorporate weight- bearing exercise in your fitness routine, the greater chance you will have a higher peak bone mass contributing to overall bone health.
Once a fad of the 1970s and early 1980s, mini trampolines, called rebounders, are seeing a resurgence in the fitness industry with trampoline classes popping up in gyms across the country.
Read MoreYou remember to lift your weights and to increase your heartrate with aerobic exercise. But, you’re forgetting one thing – to stretch.
Read MoreExercise not only gets and keeps you in shape but with the added bonus of boosting your immune system, you will be helping assist your body by fighting off potential antigens that want to bring you down.
Read MoreOther medications that may falsely lower a man’s PSA reading are any man taking aspirin, statin drugs such as Lipitor or Crestor, or thiazide diuretics.
A 2011 review of 11 studies in the journal of Environmental Science and Technology found that, compared with indoor exercise, outdoor activity was associated with feeling more energized and positive, and with reductions in anger and depression.
These versatile bands will work your muscles in a completely different way than weights do making them a perfect workout for switching it up with your fitness training.
Read MoreIt’s amazing what a few days or weeks of exercising can do for us. We feel more energized, more confident, healthier and best of all, it jumps starts our sex drive into high gear.
Read MoreImagine pressing your hands together in prayer position as hard as you can for 10 seconds. You just did an isometric exercise.
Read MoreGood digestive health is priceless. Anyone who’s had to endure regular digestive discomfort such as constipation, stomach cramps, diarrhea, nausea, indigestion, esophagus spasms, or irritable bowel syndrome, will agree a well-functioning digestive tract plays a huge role in feeling healthy.
Read MoreLifting weights will help define and tone muscles giving you an improved appearance. In addition, lifting weights regularly makes everyday tasks so much easier – carrying groceries, carrying kids, lifting heavy items from the floor, gardening, or making the bed.
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