Category: Research
7 Big Benefits Of Exercising Outside This Winter
Let’s face it — it’s tough to find the motivation to exercise outside these days. During the work week, sometimes both legs of our daily commutes are completed in utter darkness. And while weekend sunshine is appreciated, it doesn’t do much to warm up our…
12 Super Easy Ways to Transform Your Health in 2017
New Year new you? We all want to live a little healthier, but that doesn’t mean we have to make massive changes. These easy health tips are simple and sustainable ways to increase wellness in a big way…
15 Foolproof Strategies to Stick to Your Fitness Resolutions
You don’t need superpowers or an iron will to commit to being healthier this year. Whether your goal is to do 10 push-ups, run a marathon, or simply take the stairs more often—you can get there! Check out these tips to have your fittest year yet.
7 Reasons You Should Listen To Music When You Workout
Research consistently finds that listening to music distracts athletes from their “bodily awareness”. And a recent study found that not just listening, but controlling and creating music in time to one’s pace had an even more profound effect on perceived…
Get Fit for Ski Season: 6-Week Workout Plan
Are you one of the millions of skiers who hit the ski slopes hard opening week only to hobble around for the first few days afterward? Here’s a full-body workout plan get your body in shape for the entire ski season.
How to Recover From a Thanksgiving Food Binge
It happens to the best of us: Thanksgiving rolls around and we enjoy the holiday dinner a little too much.If you find yourself in this situation this year, you don’t have to suffer through the aftereffects. Here are some things you can do the day after…
How to Use Cheat Days to Lose Weight
Science says go for it. BY SHELLEY LEVITT | Women’s Health Magazine Bigfoot. The deadly combo of Pop Rocks and cola. Uncontrollable holiday weight gain. Turns out, not even that last one was ever real. When National Institutes of Health researchers looked…
7 Ways to Make Your Lunges More Effective
These aren’t your average lunges. by: Alexa Tucker | Self.com Lunges are a fantastic compound exercise to target your legs and glutes, but if you rely on the same movement to work your lower body in every workout, you might be hampering the butt-strengthening…
3 Reasons Why You Hate Running
1. You’re doing it all wrong When most people think of running, they chalk it up in their minds to be this huge ordeal in which they should be huffing and puffing, bent over with hands on knees at every stop light, and drenched in sweat about 30 seconds in –…