Taking your heart rate on your body rather than the machine is more accurate. When using a treadmill, here is how to do that. After all, a machine's recording may be very innacurate. Though checking [...]
Learn four different squat exercises that ANY woman can choose from to lose weight, improve bone strength and fitness. […]
Learn how the benefits that derive from Judo training can help women who are overweight. […]
The stability ball, also known as the Swiss or balance ball, is rather popular among older people who exercise at gyms. When I was a personal trainer my clients of all ages used a big [...]
Here are super powerful and clever ways to end your intimidation over lifting weights. Turn your intimidation into excitement and eagerness — you’ll be looking forward to every weight workout! […]
The war rages whether or not obesity is selfish. It’s like, “How can that mother allow herself to get that way? Her young kids will lose their mother early in life.” Have you heard it [...]
Patients over age 85 can benefit from minimally invasive aortic valve replacement. Don’t let age stop you from having this life-changing procedure. […]
You’ll be shocked to learn just how little daily exposure to subway noise can damage your hearing. Do you ride the subway to work every day yet don’t wear protection in your ears to prevent [...]
If you’re age 50 or older and are thinking of training for a marathon, here are reasons to go for it! […]
A study says that obese people exercise more than previously believed, but how objective were the patients at reporting their exercise habits? […]
If you’re a personal trainer, you probably have a client who talks too much during sessions. Or, perhaps as a personal trainer, you haven’t had this problem, but are surely anticipating that sooner or later, [...]
HIIT is a very useful tool for fat loss, time-saving cardio exercise and better heart health. Yet few personal trainers actually instruct this to their clients. Why is this? There’s more than one reason why [...]
If you haven’t injured a hamstring from running, it’s only a matter of time, so at least get ahead of the game and know how to prevent these and how to treat this injury should [...]
Perhaps you’ve seen a lot of articles pushing for 10,000 steps a day to gain health and fitness benefits, but is this the minimum requirement? What if you can’t figure out a way to accumulate [...]
Exercise fights depression and weight loss, and one study after another confirms the strong tie between exercise and alleviation of depression symptoms. A Southern Methodist University study shows that exercise is a potent treatment for [...]
Women who are over 50 and postmenopausal can scare off osteoporosis with just these three exercises. For women over 50, especially postmenopausal, osteoporosis looms, but you can keep this disease far away from you with [...]
Even if you’re 90 years old, even in the mid-90s, it’s not too late to gain amazing benefits from strength training, even if you’ve never picked up a piece of metal in your entire life. [...]
A study shows that the fewer sit-ups one can do, the higher the all-cause mortality risk; here’s how to get a strong core which will then help lengthen your lifespan. […]
Should a young adult undergo weight loss surgery or should he or she keep working at diet and exercise to lose the weight naturally? […]
Is it just a matter of word choice when it comes to a concussion vs. a mild traumatic brain injury? Or are these two distinct conditions with medical differences? According to a report in Neurosurgery, [...]
The gym is not a place for feeling self-conscious and even embarrassed of your body, but that seems to be exactly what many overweight women use it for. Some of women get so distracted by [...]
Childhood obesity is overwhelmingly the result of bad diet and lack of exercise, rather than genetics or heredity. “The CDC estimates that 18.5% of U.S. children are obese, and approximately one of every three children [...]
Is one particular spot of your body a hot area for muscle twitching? In other words, you keep getting muscle twitches in that same spot all the time? • Every day but only a few [...]
Do you find that your pectoralis muscles twitch after a set of bench presses, either right after or a few hours after? Twitching can mean a neurological disease—but only in very rare instances, and the [...]
Suffering from pre-retirement jitters & anxiety? Beat it out by training to lift heavy things; hit the gym! A barbell will make the jitters vanish because nothing beats anxiety like knowing you’re training your body [...]
There’s no need for alarm if your quad muscles twitch up a storm after thrashing them with your squat routine. Though muscle twitching can signal disease in very rare instances, this should be the furthest [...]
Haven’t you suffered enough with constant anxiety over ALS because of your twitching muscles and perceived atrophy? Get ready to beat your fears! End the Agony "Fasciculations can appear in almost any muscle," points out Daniel [...]
All that walking you do at work does not count as aerobic exercise; stop kidding yourself and learn why you need to do “real” cardio despite aching feet after work. Aching feet at the end [...]
There’s a very logical reason why it’s impossible to build muscle mass in your arms or biceps simply from running with hand weights. Don’t think for a moment, if you’re wanting to build bigger muscles [...]
An older woman need not fear high intensity interval training. In fact, HIIT is one of the best things an aging woman can do for her body, even if she’s always been sedentary. [...]
You’d better believe a man can reach his goals with a woman personal trainer; one man called me “es muy brutal,” Spanish for brutal! […]
Don’t give up hope; it’s a matter of working out correctly, not “fat genes.” Let me show you how to melt the fat safely and get super fit. When I was a personal trainer at [...]
Perhaps your muscle twitching started in one spot and then “spread” so that it’s now all over your body and you’re fearing the worst—like ALS? Yes, muscle twitching is listed on medical sites like webmd.com [...]
It’s cardiologist vs. personal trainer when it comes to how to properly use a treadmill and aerobic exercise in general. Who wins? I pointed out to a personal-training client that holding onto a treadmill was [...]
If you have Parkinson’s disease, you’ll be interested in a study that looked at low intensity and high intensity exercise for people with this condition. […]
Are you very plus size and wondering if lifting weights can harm your joints, due to your obesity? There are various exercises that plus size women and men do that are more threatening than lifting [...]
Ready for some HIIT? Okay, but which type of cardio equipment is best? There are many things to consider like impact, comfort and boredom! I vote for the treadmill. If you dread a particular piece of [...]
“Intuitive eating” is an approach pushed by the health-at-all-sizes movement, but this flawed approach can really make you gain unhealthy fat weight. If you’ve taken any pledges or have simply visited a website that promotes [...]
There are clear signs that indicate your child was misdiagnosed with ADHD. ADHD is an acronym that describes a large group of features in an individual. There is no diagnostic test known that definitively confirms [...]
What is squamous cell carcinoma? It’s the second deadliest skin cancer. Squamous cell carcinoma, which is directly tied to sun exposure, kills about 3,500 Americans yearly. […]
