5 ways a barre workout benefits your body
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Last 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.
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4 conditions making walking a struggle
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Walking 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 MoreBrisk walking has the biggest health benefits
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There are three benefits walking provides that particularly stand out – reduced mortality, reduced heart failure risk and improved cognitive functioning.
Read MoreWhy fitness boxing provides a punch to physical performance
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Boxing as a sport requires a high level of athletic prowess of strength, speed, agility, hand-eye coordination, endurance, and nerve.
Read More10 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:
The 5 best exercises to do daily
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Exercises that help rev up blood flow to muscles, lubricate joints, and boost your metabolism?
Read More10 vacation inspirations promoting health and fitness
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Here are 10 suggestions to inspire and ignite your creative fitness juices on planning a healthy summer vacation:
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 More6 reasons why stretching is a must
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You remember to lift your weights and to increase your heartrate with aerobic exercise. But, you’re forgetting one thing – to stretch.
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.
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