Posts Tagged ‘Strength Training’
6 Exercises That Burn Calories In Overdrive (And Are Not Burpees)
If your health, fitness, or body composition goals involve fat-burning or losing weight, after working on your nutrition, you will want to focus on fitness routines tailored to those goals. In most cases, this means regular workouts that involve exercises that burn calories and build muscle. Most people immediately associate cardio with calorie-burning, and they’re…
Read MoreYou Asked: Should I Use a Foam Roller?
Markham Heid After spending decades on the fitness fringes, foam rolling has arrived at center stage. Whole classes are now devoted to the practice of slowly rolling different parts of the body over a tube; it’s thought to improve athletic performance and flexibility, reduce workout-related soreness, slash recovery time, and knock out muscle pain. There’s…
Read MoreWhich Fitness Tracker Is Best?
Fitness trackers are increasingly popular and are even recommended by family physicians as a safe way to get healthy and increase physical activity. When it comes to buying a fitness tracker, however, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach. And, while committing to a gym membership and/or hiring a personal trainer aren’t realistic options for many consumers,…
Read More7 Beginner Kettlebell Exercises To Work Your Entire Body
Beginner kettlebell exercises are an excellent way to add variety to your workout routine, whether you’re new to strength training or you’re just faithful to your trusty 15-pound dumbbells. Using different equipment offers up new ways to work your muscles, which is key to seeing results, and there are endless ways to burn out your entire body…
Read MoreUpper-Body Foam Rolling
Foam rolling your upper body muscles can be tricky. These tips will help you make the right moves. Most muscles in your upper body can benefit from foam rolling, but they’re harder to reach and a little trickier to release than the muscles in your lower back, glutes, and legs. Done right, though, you can safely…
Read MoreThe Protein Snack You Need After a Workout — Only 47 Calories
When you need a quick post-workout snack, something with protein and carbs, look no further. Made with only three ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen, these protein balls couldn’t be easier to whip up. At 47 calories per ball, a three-piece serving is 141 calories and offers 8.1 grams of protein and 24…
Read MoreWhy Sports Nutrition Needs to Look Beyond Proteins
If you go to the gym a couple of times a week and eat healthy, you can’t help but hear the word ”protein” whenever someone talks about their diet. Of course, we all know that protein is required to build and repair muscle, but many have gone a bit overboard with the amount of protein…
Read MoreYou Can Run, But Sitting May Still Increase the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
You may be a beast in the gym or on the track, but if you spend a lot of time sitting, you still may be at increased risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and other diseases. That’s the word from the American Heart Association, which has published a scientific statement about the dangers of too much…
Read MoreU.S. Adults Get Failing Grades in Healthy Lifestyle Behavior
by Shari Barbanel in Top Headlines Only 2.7 percent of the U.S. adult population achieves all four of some basic behavioral characteristics that researchers say would constitute a “healthy lifestyle” and help protect against cardiovascular disease, a recent study concluded. In this study, researchers from Oregon State University (OSU) and the University of Mississippi examined how many…
Read MoreText Neck Troubles
Dr. Kenneth Hansraj, chief of spine surgery at New York Spine Surgery & Rehabilitation Medicine, in Poughkeepsie, New York, wondered why a 30-year-old male patient still suffered from neck pain long after Hansraj had surgically repaired a herniated disk in his back. The man was unable to return to work in spite of months of…
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