There was a time not too long ago when fitness and fatness might have seemed mutually exclusive. Lately, however, the idea that you can be fit and fat at the same time has been debated with increasing frequency—and it’s not likely to go away any
Feeling wobbly? You’re not alone. Loss of balance isn’t just for old people anymore, according to a study from the Journals of Gerentology. The two-year survey of mobility, strength, endurance, and balance showed the expected results of steady de
When it comes to health and fitness, there are a number of long-running (occasionally passionate) debates that could each be settled by the same one-word answer:
Diet or exercise?
Strength training or cardio?
Weights or resistance bands?
We promote exercise at every opportunity with good reason. Exercise is the number one thing you can do to start improving your health today, unless you’re a smoker. If that’s the case, the first best thing you can do is quit smoking — and also
Physical Therapists have a number of primary goals: to promote a patient’s ability to move; to reduce a patient’s pain; to restore a patient’s functional abilities and to prevent disability. Although they deal with a wide variety of body struct
In late September, 2012, Rached Maalouf left the parking lot of a yoga festival in Joshua Tree, California. He doesn’t remember what happened next. He was on his motorcycle; a car made an unexpected lane change. Rached was found fifty feet from his
What is the association between cardiorespiratory fitness and long-term mortality?
That is the question a recently published study set out to answer, and boy did they answer it.
“Being unfit on a treadmill or in an exercise stress test has a
That time of year is here again: the time when everybody all at once decides to migrate their sweaty, coughy, runny-nosey bodies to the gym. The convergence of flu season and New Year’s Resolutions is always a good time.
This year’s flu seems
When strength training with weights, it’s relatively easy to determine how much weight you can lift. The weights have numbers, after all, and with just a little experience and some simple math you’ll be able to figure out what your limit is, for
Is it really New Year’s Resolution season already? Is it really time—again already?—to finally get our acts together and get things right for once? That sure came around fast.
It might seem like only yesterday that we were abandoning last y
