Most all fitness trainers will have stories about how fed up they are about trying to explain the dangers of not weight training for women. Health and fitness seem to be the only field where there are so many myths that abound and no amount of scientific research and explanation seems to help bust these myths. The myths surrounding weight training for women are always the same too - (i) If you weight train, you gain big muscles or (ii)...
First up: Either one is preferable to not doing anything. Unlike the beliefs that did the rounds in the 90s, diet alone does not constitute healthy living and staying fit. Unless it is complemented with daily exercise, it will not count as living right. Therefore, while running burns more calories than walking, if you are someone who is just starting off and have never worked out before, you should start with walking and then build upwards. It is important to...
No one can doubt the benefits of regular cardiovascular exercise. It's good for the heart, helps build stamina and has also been associated with better focus and concentration, more energy and an overall improved outlook. The idea of too much cardio is bad for muscle growth comes from the body's action of using muscle as cardio fuel when it runs out of carbohydrates and fat stores. The amount of cardio does differ from person to person and when talking of...
Holding your breath and squeezing every last ounce of strength in order to complete the last rep of the last set gives a feeling of accomplishment that undoes all the crap a day in the office brings. Keep in mind though that when you see stars after that last rep, that's your body letting you know how close it was to shutdown due to stress. Nine out of 10 times, you recover in seconds but knowing how to breathe during...
Runners will tell you that the best way to avoid ankle injuries on the treadmill is to get off the stupid thing and run outside. Well, with all due respect to all my awesome runner friends, we're still going to use the damn treadmill but we are going to figure out how to stay safe while on it. Not surprisingly, barely any ankle injuries on the treadmill are due to a misbehaving treadmill, they're caused because of poor form and...
If you go by the description alone, then every weight loss app on iTunes will be the best one. When researchers went about trying to figure out what's the best weight loss app on iTunes, they found close to 1500 apps that claimed to be related to diet and weight loss. Out of that lot, only about 200 were strictly related to weight loss. This included a lose belly fat app that gets you to set your phone to vibrate...
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