How To Get Rid Of Loose Skin After Weight Loss
Skin is the body’s largest organ by volume.[1] As adults we carry, on average, 8 pounds (3.6 kilograms) and 22 square feet (2 square meters) of it. It has the capacity to stretch and grow as we do and it keeps our other organs safe from potential threats…
How To Choose Dumbbells
Lifting a weight to make your muscles adapt to the resistance it presents them with and therefore grow stronger is such an intuitive thing to do when you do it that it is hard to imagine that you may need help to start. Yet, most of those of us who…
How to Run Faster or Run Longer
Running for most people comes down to speed or length of time. Sprinters just want to go faster while anyone who runs for more than a kilometer wants to be able to do it for as long as possible. From a bio-physiological point of view running appears…
Rest, Recovery and Overtraining
When you are putting your body through its paces what you don’t do is every bit as important as what you do actually do. The amount of rest you get, the recovery time you allow and what you do to make sure you do not overtrain are every bit as important…
Bone Strength and Brain Health – How To Improve Both
[ad_1] Suppose we were to tell you that your bones will determine how well your memory works, whether you are going to get depressed or not, how overweight you will end up being and even if you will suffer from dementia as you get older? Yet, this is…
How To Age Slower
There are two ways to count the way we age: Chronologically, which is counting the years that have passed since the day we were born and biologically, which assesses our mobility, strength and aerobic capacity alongside a host of other fitness attributes…
The Benefits Of Low Intensity Interval Training (LIIT)
High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is probably the only shortcut there is when it comes to building strong muscles and losing weight. But HIIT training is also a high, external stressor that tires us out significantly, makes it harder to be able to…
How to Run in Hot Weather
Sunny days invite running. The mental image of warm weather, sunny environments and a cooling breeze as we run is hard to resist, even if the reality most of us face is somewhat different. Running in the sun however is a challenge. The skin heats up…
How to Recover from a Shoulder Injury
The shoulder joint is one of the most complex joints in the body. It is actually made up of two separate joints, the glenohumeral and acromioclavicular joints, which work together as one to produce the most flexible joint in the body. Both the…
How To Boost Your Health With Regular Exercise
[ad_1] We know that regular exercise boosts our health because we’ve been told this by virtually everyone since we were born. But how does physical activity do that exactly? Better understanding of intuitive truths helps us better regulate our own…
