Is Your Workout Plan Wearing You Out?

It is common knowledge that hard work is what builds muscle and helps you lose weight. What is less commonly known is that plenty of rest between workouts will make your work far more effective. If you jump into a workout regimen and push yourself to the limit every day, you’re doing more harm than [...]

Improve Brain Function while Losing Weight

New research shows that both animals and people who exercise change the neural pathways in their brains. In simple terms, this means that people who exercise are able to learn more easily and are less likely to suffer from degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease or Parkinson’s disease than people who don’t exercise regularly. For [...]

PX90 vs Jogging for Weight Loss

Let’s cut to the chase: Calorie for calorie, jogging and PX90 burn about the same. But PX90 does a better job of building muscle all over your body.  When you build muscle and burn calories, you stand a greater chance of losing weight. Exercise + Diet = Awesome Wait! What? You “stand a greater chance?” [...]

Lose Weight and Be a Celebrity in Your Own Home

The Biggest Loser show has made a big winner out of all of its contestants. People who have participated in the show are unanimous in saying that they now enjoy a higher quality of life, with more energy and sense of well being than they have had before. Just because you are not a contestant [...]

Cold Weather Will Be Here Before You Know It: Cold Whether Exercise

If you feel confined in gyms and dislike exercising in your home, chances are you engage in physical activity outside. While this is an excellent way to boost your mood while receiving nutrients such as vitamin D from the sun, exercising in the winter months can often be discouraging. However, you do not have to [...]

A Bowl of Cereal Just as Good for Sports Recovery

Back in 2008, nutritionists and sports enthusiasts agreed that protein drinks offered the best chance of improving an athlete’s performance. Current studies, however, show that a bowl of high-fiber, whole-grain cereal is just as helpful to an athlete recovering from exercise. Why Protein Sports Drinks? In 2008, a study was published in the Journal of [...]

8 Top Workout Tips for a Healthier You

If you have been spending longs hour at the gym and have not noticed a difference in the way you look, it may be because you are not getting the most out of your exercises. Even exercising 30 minutes a day, three to four times a week can be extremely effective if you know how [...]

Is Hula Hooping a Great Workout?

Hula hooping? Yes, hula hooping. While it may sound like yet another exercise fad, people have used the hula hoop for exercise almost as long as humans have been exercising. The earliest hoops were made almost 2,500 years ago for religious dances, and medical texts from 1,300′s England describe the hoop’s use for back problems. [...]

The Talk Test and Workout Intensity – Does it Really Work?

For many years, the talk test has been used as a means of measuring aerobic intensity. Many fitness experts question the effectiveness and accuracy of the test. The talk proposes that if you can carry on a light conversation, then you are in a good range of intensity for fat burning and cardio results. Proponents [...]

Lasting Weight Loss for Women Starts with Higher Self-Esteem… for Some

Is high self-esteem healthy for a woman? Before you answer, take a second to consider the effect of self-esteem as it relates to the worldwide health epidemic of obesity. Certainly, no one would argue that low self-esteem is in any way beneficial to a woman’s health. Recent surveys are divided on the health merits of [...]

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