Top 10 Fitness Trends For 2017
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For 2017, The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has released its top 10 fitness trends foretelling what they believe will take off big.
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Exercise Terms for Beginners
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Aerobic exercise is exercise that relies on your body’s use of oxygen. Examples of these exercises are running, swimming, cycling, and rowing, which you can engage in for extended periods of time.
Read MoreWhy We Lift Weights
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Lifting weights, sometimes referred to by the sniffier nom du gymnasium of “strength training,” is not part of everyone's exercise regimen.
Read MoreWhy stretching is so good for all of us
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You routinely do your cardiovascular workouts along with lifting some weights but wait, you may be leaving out one very important component of physical fitness - stretching.
Read MoreGet Inspired To Exercise
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According to the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition, Americans can do a much better job of exercising and being physically fit.
Read MoreThe Solidcore Workout
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Solidcore is a 50-minute workout built around a device known as a Megaformer, which resembles the love child of a spring-loaded Pilates reformer machine and a medieval dungeon's rack.
Read MoreIs This The Best Exercise for Your Abs?
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Fun Anatomy Fact: Your “six pack” (if you have one...) is actually one long muscle. Called the rectus abdominus in the doctor books.
Read MoreTake Time For Squats
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Squats may be thought of as an exercise for the legs but it actually benefits the entire body including the all-important core muscles deep within the abdomen.
Read MoreSagging Skin After Weight Loss
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It is one thing to lose excess weight achieving a healthier body mass index (BMI) but it’s another thing dealing with excess sagging skin after.
Read MoreHow hard is your workout?
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When exercising, how can you judge how much effort you’re putting into or how hard your workout is?
Read MoreTreadmill vs Elliptical
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The treadmill and the elliptical are usually the most-occupied machines at any modern gym, and for good reason.
Read MoreRest Longer - Build Bigger Muscles
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Experienced body-builder volunteers were divided up into two groups, one traditional and one taking longer rests, and were studied over an eight week period.
Read MoreNewbies Guide To Strength Training
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Strength training – weight lifting, or “pumping iron,” if you insist – remains the quintessential manly sport. That doesn't mean women can't be or aren't weight lifters.
Read MoreInactivity Will Ruin Your Health
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If there is one thing the human body is designed and meant to do is to move. Yet how many of us spend a good chunk of our day sitting and moving very little?
Read MorePushups - The Perfect Exercise
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Let’s pretend for the next two weeks you’re allowed to do only one exercise. What should it be? If you said “push-ups,” you answered correctly.
Read MoreDeath & Athletic Performance
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Want to take your basketball game to the next level? Looking to get an edge over your opponent on the court?
Read MoreBest Pre & Post Workout Snacks
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Your pre- and post-workout food choices can make a big difference in what you achieve in terms of muscle mass.
Read MoreReasons To Embrace Physical Fitness
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Have you ever thought of your body being sort of like a well-oiled machine? You know, kind of like a Chevrolet Camaro that can accelerate from 0 to 60 in 3.9 seconds?
Read MoreBarbell Row Exercise Benefits
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If we wanted to build an impressive physique, and we could only do just one exercise, it would be the barbell row.
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