Ever wondered: how much exercise do you need every day to lose weight? Weight loss is the holy grail – no – a goal that calls for a disciplined and healthy lifestyle. It involves eating healthy and exercising regularly, among other things in order to achieve that goal. But how much exercise do you need every day to lose weight and reach your weight loss goal? Read 100 reasons to…
This post is to help you understand how strength training is different from bodybuilding. When fitness enthusiasts and athletes join a gym or embark on training, they have different goals. The primary goal of a bodybuilder is to increase muscle mass. This involves altering cell physiology to promote growth. Experts say that cells, fluid, and muscle fiber increase rapidly with these workouts, which gives someone a larger physique generally. Weightlifting…
Exercise plays a central role in building the muscles that support the back. This helps prevent back pain. At some point or other in our lives, most of us experience back pain. While the cause for a majority of us can be upper or lower back pain during the course of day to day life, it can also be triggered by an accident, a sports-related injury or a congenital condition.…
Yoga is one of the most accessible ways to stay healthy and fit, as seen in the meteoric rise of this ancient practice in Western society. Of the countless benefits of practicing yoga routinely, one of them is a stronger core. A stronger core helps you prevent lower back pain, improves your posture and stamina, plus benefits your breathing and heart. Here are seven yoga poses that specifically target your…
Seriously, do you really need an incentive to stay healthy? With lifestyle diseases rapidly on the increase, we owe it to ourselves to do everything we can to ensure that we live healthy. I was diagnosed in Feb 2013 with type 2 diabetes. While diabetes runs in the family, and I was at risk anyway, there have been days when I have secretly felt guilty about helping that risk catch…