Category: General Fitness
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9 Unusual Weight Loss Tips
A few decades back, losing weight among overweight people seems a herculean task. Made possible by lack of knowledge and the misconception that lifting weight and working your bones to the hardest level you can imagine is the only way to lose weight, the principles and ways of losing weight have become very much improved…
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Can Avocado Oil Help You Stay Healthy?
New studies are revealing that avocado oil may be extremely beneficial to your health. The substance is rich in anti-oxidant properties that can help the body to battle a variety of diseases.
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Warm Up Exercises to Keep You Safe
Fitness enthusiasts as well as beginners must know that the value of warm up exercises is as essential as the workout itself. Workouts without warming up causes premature fatigue, muscle strains, injury and even decreased range of motion and flexibility.
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Fat Loss in Teen Girl Study Flawed: Resistance Beats Cardio
SoJung Lee of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine recently led a research team to find out which burns more fat: aerobics or strength training.
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How To Put On Weight Properly
If you’re looking to learn how to put on weight in a healthy manner through your workout and diet plan, there are some important points to know. One big mistake that many people make who are trying to gain muscle mass is they just adopt a ‘see-food’ diet.
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Why You Must Determine Your Body Type For Optimal Results
As you go about setting up your workout program, one thing that you need to make sure you’re doing is taking the time to assess your body type. Many people completely overlook this factor when selecting their program and then don’t see as great of results as they could because of it.
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Prevention is the Best Medicine
Preventative health care in America is practically non existent. Other than the people that are regularly active, most people don’t tend to take the initiative to do anything to improve their health before they get sick.
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How Inactive Are You
I came across an article recently that was simultaneously shocking while making perfect sense to me. According to recent research from the University of South Carolina, obese individuals get very little vigorous exercise on a daily basis.
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Planks Are Great, But Can They Be Better?
Very few things in the fitness industry are as universally accepted as the notion that the best way to work your entire core musculature is by doing an exercise that spawned a brief internet craze, the plank.
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Normal Weight in Teens Trumps Fit & Fat for Heart Attack Risk
A common mantra these days is “you can be fat and fit,” but does “fat and fit” translate to a lower risk and lower incidence of heart attack years later?
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Stand Up for Your Health
There are no shortage of ways available for you to improve your health by increasing your physical activity level. Regular exercise is obvious place to start, but parking farther from the store or restaurant, taking the stairs instead of the elevator, and not sitting for long periods of time are other less obvious ways to…
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How To Lose Weight Before Bikini Season
I’ve been training professionally for over 8 years. Guess what the number one question I get is? How to lose weight! I know huge surprise! The fitness industry has exploded with thousands of workouts claiming to be the best weight loss workout, the best way to burn belly fat or the best butt toning workout!
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4 Workouts for Women
Exercise is good for everyone, generally speaking. However, not all forms of exercise are appropriate for each individual.
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Stretching Exercises to Prevent Muscle Cramping
Muscle cramping often affects thousands of athletes all over the world which often compromises athletic performance during main events or during training.
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4 Reasons Change Is A Vital Component Of A Proper Workout Plan
If you’re putting on some effort to develop a proper workout plan, one thing that you must take into account is how much change or variety you have built into the structure.
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7 Keys to Building Lean Muscle
The common reason why people often sweat it out in the gym is to lose weight and/or achieve a lean muscle. The former and the latter as mentioned always go hand in hand as you won’t be able to achieve a lean body without losing significant fats especially around the belly.
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Weight Management: Diet and Exercise
Successful weight management, barring any chronic health conditions, depends on the quality and the quantity of the foods consumed as well as the amount of dedicated physical activity.
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Achieve a Beach Body During the Winter Hibernation
More often than not, the weather conditions and the cold that winter brings create a barrier for us to do the outdoor activities that we wanted to. However, this time of the year gives you enough time to build a beach body worthy of display come summer season.
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Muscle And Fitness 101: Lean Mass Metabolism Relationship
If you are getting involved in a muscle and fitness program and want to see significant changes to your body, one thing that you need to be taking into account is the relationship between lean muscle mass and your metabolic rate.
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Causes of Obesity You May Not Know
There are causes of obesity that extend far beyond the “calories in vs. calories out” rule. Though in general, the causes of obesity relate to how many calories a person takes in versus how many calories that individual burns throughout the day, the law of thermodynamics isn’t always so absolute.