Category: exercise

If Weight Loss Is Your Only Goal for Exercise, It’s Time to Rethink Your Priorities

As an aesthetic society, we often demonize body fat and stigmatize people with lots of it. There’s often an assumption that people carrying excess weight don’t exercise and must be unhealthy. But that’s not true: you can be fat and fit. In fact, as we age, low levels of fitness can be more harmful to our health than high amounts of…


How You Do One Thing Is How You Do Everything

By Dylan Ogline In a commencement speech at UT-Austin that went viral in 2014, Admiral William McRaven encouraged the graduating seniors, “If you want to change the world, start by making your bed.” Really? Making your bed? That’s it? Maybe a made bed doesn’t change the world in and of itself, but as McRaven pointed…


How to Choose a Home Exercise Machine

Most people don’t need another excuse not to exercise: no time, too hot, too cold, or even pain and practicality can hold people back. Purchasing a home exercise machine can help solve the problem and make exercise much easier. Hopping on an exercise bike for 15 minutes, for example, can help you squeeze in a…


Vigorous Exercise Needed for Later in Life: Study

A study has found that a great impediment to the quality of life of people aged 65 and over is their assumption that they should become more sedentary as they get older. In fact, they can and should be more active. The team from the Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change of Melbourne University found that…


Moving the Body to Ease the Mind

We exercise for a variety of reasons. Some want a healthier heart. Others work out as a way to build strength, endurance, and coordination. Still, others are motivated by image, and a desire to sculpt a fitter-looking figure. All of these pursuits have a physical goal. But for some people, exercise is more of a…


7 Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Must Workout

By Bertrand Ngampa Expectations placed on successful entrepreneurs are steep. Wearing multiple hats, having a hand in everything, and working endless hours combine to make it easy to overlook one of the key aspects of having an accomplished career: overall health and fitness. Innumerable new and veteran business owners experience high levels of unmanaged stress, fatigue, blood pressure,…


Exercises That Are Great for the Outdoors

What better way to combat our growing waistlines from all these summertime grilling get-togethers than to exercise in the great outdoors? Effective exercise sessions don’t require a trip to your local fitness center. In fact, a beautiful outdoor vista might add motivation to move your body. And one of the benefits of a regular fitness…


Afghan Neighbour Tajikistan Holds Largest Ever Military Exercise

DUSHANBE—Afghanistan’s northern neighbour Tajikistan held its largest ever military exercise on Thursday involving the Central Asian nation’s entire army, and President Emomali Rakhmon urged vigilance amid fighting to the south of the border. Insecurity has been growing in Afghanistan in recent weeks, largely spurred by fighting in its provinces as U.S.-led foreign troops complete their…


5 Tips to Start a Healthy Life

Article by Zayda Torres We live a lifestyle where “I’m very busy” is a common everyday phrase. We run from one place to another, we have appointments, events and jobs that demand that we be at full capacity. We already know that the lack of physical exercise in addition to causing significant damage to our cardiovascular system,…


The 3 Things You Can Do Today to Lower Blood Pressure Tomorrow

If you’ve got high blood pressure or are concerned about it getting high, take a bit of comfort in knowing that blood pressure is not permanent. High blood pressure today can be low in the future if you’re willing to put in some work. The three essential parts to managing or reducing high blood pressure…