There are three components to working your abs to get that sculpted look—nutrition, aerobic exercise and abdominal training. Truth is, you won’t have a washboard stomach with a 6-inch layer…

It’s important to drink enough water when you’re exercising. Your body is about 65% water, and that water is important. It is found in your cells, between your cells, in…

Whenever someone talks about losing weight, we tend to think about diets. Cutting calories, counting carbs, South Beach, Mediterranean, Weight Watchers, the grapefruit diet and all the others. If and…

That’s a simple question, and you’d think the answer would be simple, too. But, alas, it is not. How much exercise you need each day depends on several factors: how…

Aerobic exercise is part of a healthy lifestyle, and so is good nutrition. Eating right has a lot to do with the success of your aerobic activities, whether you are…

Flexibility is an important aspect of overall fitness, and it gets more important as we get older. We improve flexibility by stretching, and the primary purpose of stretching is to…

An exercise program has three measures: frequency (how often you exercise), duration or time (how long you exercise) and intensity (how hard you exercise). It’s easy to measure frequency and…

Your muscles do work; they use energy to move your body. Resistance is a force that opposes work. When you do resistance training, you apply a force against your body’s…

Physical fitness is one of those hard-to-define concepts; we know it when we see it, but how, exactly, do you define it? Instead of a definition, let’s look at some…

Barbells are standard weight lifting equipment and are an excellent way to increase muscle strength; it’s the only piece of equipment many people need. Designing a barbell workout involves seven…

Those big exercise balls are a great addition to your workout. You can use them in several ways, depending on your exercise goals. Exercise balls are most often used for…

Joint pain after a workout is nothing to sneeze at. You don’t want to brush it off or tell yourself, “No pain, no gain.” Joint pain may be caused by…

Aqua training is basically running in water. It’s a great way for injured athletes to maintain conditioning, and for uninjured individuals to improve their fitness. Aqua training is a no…

Boxing is, indeed, a high energy aerobic sport, and competitive cyclists do, indeed burn up the calories. When training and sparring, boxers can require 5,000 or 6,000 calories a day…

Obesity has reached epidemic proportions not only in the United States, but also throughout the world. The World Health Organization says obesity is increasing rapidly even in very poor countries,…