America has an obesity problem. The National Institutes of Health estimates that two in five adults are overweight and one out of every three adults are obese. Though a healthy diet has the biggest ...

If you’ve ever held a plank, paused at the bottom of a squat or pressed your palms together in front of your chest, you’ve ...

As for how often you should be doing cardio, the ACSM recommends 150 minutes every week, which you can split up into 30 minutes, five days a week. Cardio has numerous benefits, from burning fat and ...

Isometric, isotonic, and isokinetic exercises can all help you progress toward better physical fitness, but through very different techniques.

The word "eccentric", you’ll know, is most commonly used to describe someone or something unconventional – but in the world of fitness, it means something quite different. Thankfully, eccentric ...

A Harvard University study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that regular exercise can improve the ...

If you have SPMS, there are safe, simple, multiple sclerosis-friendly physical activities, as well as exercise routines for MS, you can try.

Yin yoga is a style of yoga that includes specific passive poses (called yin poses) that are held for an extended time, usually 3 to 10 minutes. Although this type of yoga was developed in the 1980s ...

There are three pathways that fuel the body during exercise: the immediate, intermediate, and long-term energy pathways. In the immediate and intermediate pathways, creatinine phosphate and ...

On TikTok, VO2 max is going viral as the key to improving your endurance during a workout. In short, you can think of this metric as the maximum amount of oxygen your body uses during exercise – V ...

Aerobic exercise, also known as cardio, "involves activities that use large muscle groups rhythmically and continuously, raising the heart and breathing rates," explains Gontang. He says that the word ...