10 inspiring fitness tips keeping you motivated
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The 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:
Racket sports serve up outstanding health benefits
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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 MoreExercise precautions when you have atrial fibrillation
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Regular 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 MoreWhy weight-bearing exercise is crucial for building bones
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The 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.
Have fun getting fit with a trampoline workout
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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 MoreGet a topnotch immune system with exercise
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Exercise 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 MoreTips on getting accurate results from a PSA test
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Other 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.
The unexpected benefits of exercising in the great outdoors
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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.
Benefits of working out using resistance bands
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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 MoreWake up your sex life with exercise
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It’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 MoreIsometrics: The secret to gaining strength
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Imagine pressing your hands together in prayer position as hard as you can for 10 seconds. You just did an isometric exercise.
Read MoreWhy yoga works wonders for digestive health
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Good 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 MoreHave you lifted weights today?
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Lifting 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.
Read MoreTop tips and tricks from fitness pros
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Here are 9 fitness secrets any seasoned exercise pro will tell you needs to happen to make getting and staying fit not only possible but lifelong:
Read MoreTop 12 ways sending energy levels soaring
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Feeling exhausted? That mid-afternoon slump or the struggle to stay alert on the drive home from work, are signs you need a shot of energy adrenaline.
Read MoreTake your workout up a notch with interval walking
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The only way to transform your body is to change up your normal workout routine. If you’ve found that your usual routine of walking 30 minutes most days has stalled on not getting the results you want, it’s time for a change.
Read MoreHow exercise can ease symptoms of fibromyalgia
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Of the estimated 5 million Americans 18 or older – 80% to 90% of those diagnosed being women - exercise can be an effective treatment option significantly showing positive improvements of symptoms resulting in increased quality of life and physical functioning.
Read MoreWhy yoga builds muscle while preventing injuries
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Ask a yoga instructor if their toned, muscular physique is from lifting weights. Most likely they will laugh and say, “Sure, I lift my own body weight.” Yoga is primarily known for gaining flexibility, increasing circulation, improving posture or relieving tension and stress.
Read MoreExercise makes it easier to control diabetes
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A diagnosis of type 2 diabetes is a wakeup call to taking better care of yourself. One way to accomplish this is through physical activity or exercise.
Read MoreSorting out the differences between hiking and walking
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If you’ve ever used the term, “Go take a hike,” have you considered what that means when compared to taking a walk? Most of us would admit there are differences between the two but just how much do they diverge from one another and is one better than the other?
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