Will You Take the Move More Month Challenge This April 2019?
In April 2019 the American Heart Association celebrates Move More Month with the magic of working out on Monday—when you’re more likely to stick with it all week. Public health researchers at Johns Hopkins discovered that when people add an exercise habit in on Monday,…
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Predict Your Health Risk With These Simple Fitness Tests
Most people have heard of the VO2 max test, often used by athletes to precisely measure their cardiovascular fitness levels by measuring how much oxygen the athlete can utilize during exercise. These fitness tests can also be used by non-athletes to provide an estimate measure…
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Five Ways Your Pup Can Inspire Your Health & Fitness
When it comes to fitness dogs have the best attitude. 12/10 would agree. They’re always ready for a walk, never tired of fetching a tennis ball and always excited about their next adventure. Research shows that just having a dog can improve human fitness levels….
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Find Happiness For Your Healthier Life
The great thing about happiness is that individuals have more power to change how much happiness they experience than external sources. Research in the developing field of positive psychology is helping us to better understand what makes people happy and what changes we can make,…
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Six Tips To Age Better and Healthier By Sleeping Like A Baby
If a drug could help us live longer, lose weight, decrease our chances of chronic diseases, cancer, and dementia, help us recover from exercise more efficiently to improve athletic performance, all while making us smarter, more attractive, and emotionally stronger, it would be considered a…
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Smokers Applying For Life Insurance – A Quitter’s Silver Lining
The data is in, and the research is pretty unequivocal. Smoking significantly shortens your lifespan and negatively impacts virtually every aspect of everyday health. There are exceptions to just about every rule, like the 85-year-old who’s been smoking their entire life and somehow avoided lung…
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Tetanus Shot: Why You Should Stay Up-To-Date At Any Age
The news media recently picked up a CDC report documenting the effects of tetanus on a 6-year-old child in Oregon whose parents declined the tetanus shot. He contracted the disease in 2017. What started out as a simple cut on the forehead from playing on…
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Keep Your Fitness On Track As You Spring Forward
While many people look forward to the extra hour of sleep when we “fall back,” keeping a positive attitude can be difficult in the groggy days after we “spring forward.” It might seem tempting to sleep in and skip your Monday morning workout, but disturbing…
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Benefits of Yoga: A Weightlifting Cyclist Explains Five Unexpected Ways Yoga Helps
After a few months of regular yoga practice, it’s the unexpected benefits of yoga that I’m loving most of all.
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Which Yoga Class Style Is Right For You?
If you are new to yoga, choosing a class can seem just as overwhelming as an hour-long downward facing dog. And while yoga and yogic philosophy is a rich, varied science that can take many forms—not just physically—we’ve compiled a list of some the most common yoga classes you’ll find at your local gym or studio.
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