All Stories Tagged With: "fitness"
Oxygen Debt | The Excess Post-Exercise Oxygen Consumption Effect
Everyone knows that exercise leads to a healthy body, strong muscles, reduced stress, and weight loss. But what many people don’t consider is what happens on an internal level after an exercise is complete. The amount of techniques, methods, or strategies you could implement in your workout in order to achieve your goals is endless.
Workout Tips | Learn How to Train Properly
Upon entering any gym you may find that at least a fraction, if not the majority, of it’s inhabitants unable to workout properly. The issue of exercising incorrectly, if done over a long period of time especially, could result in critical injury. But even while there is so much information available on the subject of exercising correctly, some people still don’t accept any change. Are you training the wrong way, too?
Physical Activity Shown to Boost Academic Performance
After analyzing 14 studies, researchers have determined that schoolchildren can boost their academic performance simply by partaking in physical activity. It is well known that exercising is key for maintaining quality health, but now parents may encourage children from a young age to involve themselves with some form of physical activity to boost brain power. By teaching children from a young age that movement is important, we will be setting the groundwork for a future full of physical activity.
Busy Schedule? How to Exercise in 15 Minutes Without Cutting the Benefits
In our society, physical labor is diminished, due to a more psychologically and emotionally demanding lifestyle. This increases your risk for adverse health risks, as your busy schedule may leave little room for exercise. The good news is that quality exercise can be performed in as little as 15 minutes, and it can actually be much more effective than slaving away at the gym for hours.
Is Inactivity Destroying our Society as We Know it?
Are you increasing your risk of death by living a sedentary lifestyle? In our society, the physical labors are sometimes greatly diminished due to the psychologically and emotionally demanding lives we lead. This emotionally and psychologically demanding lifestyle, however, seems to be increasing the risk for adverse health risks.
15 Minutes of Exercise can Increase Your Lifespan by 3 Years
A new study including several hundred thousand participants has found that just 15 minutes per day of exercise can extend your lifespan by up to 3 years. The study, published in the journal Lancet, highlights the extreme benefits of a natural health lifestyle.
Naturally Increasing Your Cellular Energy Production
It has been known for over 40 years that exercise stimulates skeletal muscle mitochondrial enzyme content and activity, but new research suggests exercise can even induce this mitochondrial biogenesis in a wide range of tissues.
Aerobic Exercise Preserves Brain Health
Aerobic exercise not only has amazing fat loss and cancer prevention benefits, but new research has found that it is also effective in preventing your risk of dementia and preserving your brain health.
Exercise at Work Boosts Productivity, Swedish Researchers Find
Exercising during work time can lead to higher productivity, according to a study conducted by researchers at Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet that is being published in Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Exercise | The Natural Yet Effective Cancer Treatment
Studies have shown that exercise is an excellent way to prevent cancer, but what about if you are already suffering from cancer? New research suggests that virtually all cancer patients should be exercising for a period of 2 1/2 hours per week.
15 Minutes of Exercise is ‘Bare Minimum for Health’
The latest findings: just 15 minutes of exercise pay day can not only boost your life expectancy by 3 years, and cut your risk of death by 14%. In contrast, a couch potato lifestyle with 6 hours of TV per day cuts your lifespan by 5 years.
Muscle Building Slashes Diabetes Risk
Yet another reason to workout: building more lean muscle mass could help reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes. In addition to slashing your risk of diabetes, you’ll be improving overall health and fending off cancer.
7 Amazing Benefits of Exercise
Danish researchers took a group of sedentary, overweight men and women and over 18 months trained them to run a marathon. The findings were very telling. Of the men, there was an average weight loss of something like a few pounds but the women in the study averaged no change to their weight. Imagine running 26.2 miles (42km) and not losing anything? This is consistent with my own experience.
A Few Simple Exercises at Work can Boost Overall Health
The British government has drawn up workplace exercise guidelines to tackle the rising levels ofobesity in the country. Office workers who want to lose weight should stand up while talking on the phone and walk over to speak to colleagues rather than emailing them, according to the official advice. The guidelines issued by the Department of Health recommend that desk-bound staff carry out office work-outs’ to increase activity, fight obesity and improve health.
Why Exercise Makes Us Feel Good
Why does exercise make us happy and calm? Almost everyone agrees that it generally does, a conclusion supported by research. A survey by Norwegian researchers published this month, for instance, found that those who engaged in any exercise, even a small amount, reported improved mental health compared with Norwegians who, despite the tempting nearness of mountains and fjords, never got out and exercised.
Infographic: High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)
High intensity interval training (HIIT) has become universally known for its beneficial properties and speedy completion. While at first scrutinized by health professionals, HIIT is now recommended by a large number of fitness experts across the globe. Check out this infographic (picture containing information) for a closer look at HIIT and how to perform this amazing exercise routine:
Pine Bark, CoQ10 Boost Physical Fitness & Overall Heart Health
A recent study published in Panminerva Medica reveals that a Pycnogenol® and Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) combination (PycnoQ10®) taken by stable heart failure patients as an adjunct to medical treatment naturally strengthens the heart, increasing the blood volume ejected with each beat. As a consequence, the oxygen-rich blood supply to the organs improves, and patients become more physically energetic. Furthermore, blood pressure, heart rate and respiratory rates were improved among patients.
