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Your body is about 60 percent water. The body constantly loses water throughout the day, mostly through urine and sweat but also from regular body functions like breathing. To prevent dehydration, you need to get plenty of water from drink and food every day. There are many different opinions on just how much water you should be drinking every […]

Before you start any strenuous physical activity, you want to make sure you’re warming up beforehand. You’re essentially getting your body ready for the physical task at hand. Like starting up your car’s engine on a cold day, you want to let it warm up to let the engine run as smoothly as possible, the

STUDY: Tim Shiraev et al, Clinical benefits of high intensity interval training, AFP, Volume 41, Issue 12, December 2012 Background Aerobic exercise has a marked impact on cardiovascular disease risk. Benefits include improved serum lipid profiles, blood pressure and inflammatory markers as well as reduced risk of stroke, acute coronary syndrome and overall cardiovascular mortality.

STUDY: F Mayer et al., The Intensity and Effects of Strength Training in the Elderly, Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2011 May; 108(21): 359–364. Background The elderly need strength training more and more as they grow older to stay mobile for their everyday activities. The goal of training is to reduce the loss of muscle mass and the

Due to the growing body of evidence supporting its many benefits, strength training has become a fundamental part of most exercise programs. If you’ve ever considered strength training, you may wonder how it will benefit your life. Heres 10 ways strength training can benefit you! Increases strength Increases muscle mass Decreases body fat Decreases risk

A recent study showed people who do muscle-strengthening workouts are less likely to die prematurely than those who don’t. U.S. exercise guidelines recommend that adults do strength training for all major muscle groups twice a week. Si-Min Lee, professor of epidemiology at Harvard explained that muscle-strengthening exercises are beneficial because they lead to better physical

If you could do one thing to improve your health, strength training should be at the top of your list The general definition of strength training is any physical movement in which you use your body weight or equipment (e.g, dumbbells and resistance bands) to build muscle mass, strength & endurance. If your getting started into

SUMMARY: Pilates uses a combination of approximately 50 simple, repetitive exercises to create muscular exertion. Advocates of this system of exercise claim that exercises can be adapted to provide either gentle strength training for rehabilitation or a strenuous workout vigorous enough to challenge skilled athletes. The exercises are designed to increase muscle strength and endurance,

Pilates is a method of whole-body exercise. Though there is an emphasis on core work, core strength alone is not the end goal. Rather, using that core strength to develop functional and sustainable movement patterns throughout the body is the goal. Pilates exercises coordinate movement and breath together to work the smaller and deeper stabilizing

A systematic review and meta-analysis of meditation training for psychological stress and well-being examined 47 trials with more than 3,000 subjects and concluded that mindfulness meditation programs in particular resulted in small improvements in anxiety and depression. The researchers further reported a moderate amount of evidence that meditation programs result in small improvements in stress/distress