How To Stay Healthier Longer
We all want a long, healthy life. These two things however don’t always go together. As life gets longer, if it does, health becomes harder to retain. This is the struggle between lifespan and healthspan. Given a choice, of course, we all want as much as…
How To Start With Exercise If You’re Overweight
The paradox of exercise becomes immediately apparent the moment you need to use it to lose weight and feel healthier. It then becomes obvious that exercise is easier to start, do and maintain when you’re already fit. The reasons exercise feels so…
Running and a Healthy Brain
We all know that exercise is beneficial for the brain, helping increase oxygen levels, blood volume, IQ points and better connections between its different segments through a process known as neurogenesis. It now appears to also help improve memory and…
Rest Days
Your muscles need recovery time to be able to repair, change and function properly before your next training session. Overworked muscles, damaged muscles and muscles that have been through hell and back will need some kind of downtime, but most of the…
How to Build Up Your Immune System
[ad_1] The body’s immune system is a complex network of interactions that take into account hormones, neurotransmitters, physical health, emotional state, psychological state, environmental stress, emotional stress and emotional…
How To Have More Energy
There’s no question about it. If we each started each day with more energy than what we currently experience we’d get more done. We’d be more productive in our work, we’d have more energy for our friends and family and the upkeep and maintenance of the…
How To Improve Grip Strength
If there was to be a single, across the board, test that would quickly reveal how strong, fit and healthy you are and how long you are likely to remain like this in your lifespan, then the grip strength test is exactly that test. Studies show that grip…
How to Run Faster and Jump Higher
The explosive speed of Usain Bolt and the jumping ability of Michael Jordan are the stuff of legend. One is the fastest man in the world and the other has the highest vertical jump in NBA history, measured at 46 inches. Both men work at their skill,…
Muscle soreness and recovery
We push ourselves, we do our best and we feel like the kings and queens of the world… until the next day that is when an 80 year old granny can beat us up, everything hurts and crawling out of bed classifies as “achievement unlocked”. When you exercise…
How to Boost Your Immune System With Exercise
[ad_1] The immune system is a complex network of organs in the body that provide resistance to infection and toxins. When Saiyan Goku loses to Frost in the legendary Dragon Ball series it’s because his system can’t fight off the toxins of the poison…
