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How to Get Your Body Ready for Pullups
Pullups can be highly challenging, particularly if you don't have a lot of upper-body strength. Proper preparation, however, can decrease your risk of injury as you master the pullup and make it much...
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What Is a Healthy Age to Start Exercising?
Anyone can benefit from exercise, no matter what their age. However, it's much easier to exercise into old age if you have built a lifelong fitness foundation that started at a young age -- not to...
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How to Stretch to Prevent Calves From Hurting During a Run
Running involves constant repetitive motion, so it’s no wonder that up to 70 percent of runners develop injuries every year. One of the muscle groups that is susceptible to pain is the calf. Often...
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How Does the Way You Hold Dumbbells Affect How Biceps Grow?
Strong, shapely biceps don’t have to be a far-off fantasy. Achieving great arms comes down to having a regular workout and knowing how exercise affects your muscles. How you hold your dumbbells, for...
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Cooldown Exercises
Government agencies recommend that adults participate in 75 to 150 minutes of moderate of vigorous exercise each week. Cool down exercises at the end of your workout session, while not required, can be...
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How Does Music Help With Your Aerobic Exercise?
Aerobic exercise is any kind of physical activity that elevates your heart rate. The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends 75 minutes of vigorous aerobic exercise weekly for adults, or 150...
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Safety Protocols for Step Aerobics
Step aerobics is a low-impact exercise that benefits your muscles and cardiovascular system without overtaxing your joints. Step aerobics can range from an easy step-up and step-down pattern to a more...
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Ways to Increase Non-Exercise Activity Levels
Most people know that exercise is a way to increase heart health, tone your body and in many cases, burn calories. Even if you are not actively exercising by playing a sport, participating in...
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Nighttime Exercise vs. Morning
Finding time to exercise at any point of the day can be difficult for busy people. You may exercise in the morning or nighttime simply because it fits into your schedule. Depending on your exercise...
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Can You Exercise Three Times a Day?
Busy people sometimes have a hard time finding the time to exercise. A long walk or scheduled soccer game may not fit into your schedule. Sneaking in exercise a few minutes at a time, three times a day...
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Gentle but Effective Exercise
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that adults participate in 75 to 150 minutes of aerobic activity weekly in addition to muscle strengthening. The higher the intensity of the...
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Reasons for Warm Ups Before Exercise
Every week, the average American should enjoy 2.5 hours of aerobic exercise, along with a couple days of strength-building exercise, recommends the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But don't...
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Core Exercises From the Sitting Position for the Elderly
Core muscles are located in your trunk, or the midsection of your body. The abdominal, back, hip and pelvic muscles make up your core. Many exercises for the core are performed while lying down or...
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Are Pets Good for People's Health?
Whether your best friend is a faithful canine, a cat with an attitude or a fish that spends more time staring at you than you do at him, you know your pet has entertainment value. Your pet also may...
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How to Not Get Tired When Doing Pullups
Pullups, a weight-bearing and muscle-strengthening exercise, require a great deal of upper-body strength. As you pull your body weight up to clear the bar, you're taxing muscle systems in several areas...
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New Year's Resolution: How to Lose Stomach Fat
Another new year arrives and you make yet another resolution to lose that stomach fat and the extra weight you've been carrying around. Easy to say, harder to do in many cases. Don't let the idea of...
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Exercises for Full-Term Pregnant Women
Toward the end of your pregnancy, you might begin worrying about losing baby weight and whether you'll ever have time for exercise again. But starting a vigorous exercise routine late in pregnancy can...
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Indoor Low-Impact Aerobics
When it's too hot or cold outside to enjoy your favorite type of aerobic exercise, rather than skipping your workout, bring it indoors. There are a variety of indoor low-impact aerobic exercise options...
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Effects of Skipping Exercise
Illness, injury, busy schedules and "just not feeling it" days are common causes for skipping exercise. Some people feel the physical and emotional effects -- including reduced strength or depression...
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How to Get a Flat Stomach Without Losing Weight
Many people associate getting a flat stomach with losing weight. Some people may need to shed the spare tire around middle to look sleeker and more toned. But for others, having a little stomach flab...
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