You can get strong and fit using your own body weight as resistance, rather than using tools like barbells, dumbbells, and weight machines.
Like any cardio activity, walking is great for your heart health! Add intensity with speed intervals or incline intervals like the graph listed below.
Some exercise is better than nothing, even if you can only get in a 15 minutes — there are real scientific benefits. And check out our 15-minute workouts to fit your busy schedule!
What can you do to improve your health outlook if you sit all day? Getting in movement and changing positions throughout the day is key. Here are some ideas.
Why should you do HIIT training? Save time, tone, challenge your heart, lose weight. We’ve got 60+ HIIT and Tabata workouts for moms.
Working out barefoot is advantageous for our feet, our joints, our balance, our kinetic chain, and our body-brain connection.
As our bodies age, our muscles weaken and lose mass without regular use. You need to strengthen your muscles to be able to withstand the physical demands you put your body through, avoid injury, improve posture, and boost metabolism.
Both HIIT and steady-state continuous cardio have their advantages and disadvantages. Ideally, you’d hit both aerobic and anaerobic levels.
Getting outside to move is low cost, easy to access, and a great mood and energy boost for the whole family.
Is “closing your rings” on the Apple Watch becoming an obsession? Is it more important to listen to your body instead of your fitness tracker?
Metabolism slows starting your 30s. Consider these tools that help: weight training, eating good fats, up you plant-based nutrition, and fasting.
Are your sleep habits sabotaging your health and fitness goals? Sleep deprivation can lead to junk food cravings and poor mood.
Before you attempt one ab workout too many, check out five common ab myths — and their busters.
Typically, we talk about how to increase your nutrition or add minutes to your movement. However, it is possible to take it too far leading to overtraining your body or not fueling enough.
We have been trained to believe that in order to see results (e.g., weight loss, fat loss, muscle increase) from exercise, we need to run until we can barely breathe, lift heavy weights until we are tomato red in the face, or spend hour upon hour walking around an imaginary treadmill track.
Running doesn’t have to lead to injuries. Learn tips to prevent plantar fasciitis, shin splints, and IT band syndrome.
You haven’t missed a workout in months and are proud that your strength, endurance and flexibility are improving. But, lately, you find that it’s harder than normal … look for these 15 symptoms of overtraining
Morning? Night? Before meals or after? What is the best time of day to work out? The short answer is when you can schedule it. The longer answer is when you have the most energy stored.
Any exercise is better than none. But do you understand the aerobic and anaerobic systems and how your cardio exercises leverage both?
Make your workouts more effective and exciting — step up your strength training with supersets, pyramids, EMOM training, interval training, and HIIT.
Traits and training suggestions for the three well-known body types. Keep in mind, most people are a blend of two body types, one being more dominant than the other, and don’t fit neatly into one particular category.
