Category: exercise

Maintain Your Muscle

You’ve likely heard that exercise can help you live a longer, healthier life. When you hear the word ‘exercise,’ you might think of going for a run or hopping on a bicycle. Or maybe playing soccer with your kids or basketball with your friends after work. But these activities don’t include all the types of…


Four Types of Exercise Can Improve Your Health and Physical Ability

Learn about the four types of exercises and how they can benefit you. For workout videos and examples of how to do some of the exercises listed below, visit NIA’s YouTube channel. Most people tend to focus on one type of exercise or activity and think they’re doing enough. Research has shown that it’s important to…


Staying Motivated to Exercise: Tips for Older Adults

Physical activity is a great way for older adults to gain substantial health benefits and maintain independence. Try to make exercise a priority. Remember that being active is one of the most important things you can do each day to maintain and improve health. Try these tips to help you stay motivated to exercise. 1. Find…


Study Shows that High Levels of Exercise Do Not Compensate For a Poor Diet

A long-term research study investigating the independent and joint effects that exercise and diet have on a participant’s risk of death has shown that the detrimental effect a low-quality diet has on a person’s health and fatality risk cannot be eliminated by high levels of exercise. The study by the University of Sydney, which followed…


Social Stress Can Speed Up Immune System Aging: New Research

As people age, their immune systems naturally begin to decline. This aging of the immune system, called immunosenescence, may be an important part of age-related health problems such as cancer and cardiovascular disease, as well as older people’s less effective response to vaccines. But not all immune systems age at the same rate. In our recently published study, my colleagues and I found that…


What Does Exercise Really Do That an ‘Exercise Pill’ Doesn’t?

After Popeye the Sailor Man eats a can of spinach, he can grow strong muscles. Can the rest of us now also take a pill that does the job of exercise? In the June issue of the journal Nature, a discovery caught people’s attention. It has made many people who do not like exercising or…


Want to Live Longer? Exercise Is Key, Study Confirms

Middle-aged people could add years to their lives just by getting off the couch and going for a walk every day — though it wouldn’t hurt to do even more, a large new study suggests. The researchers followed over 100,000 Americans for decades and found what many have shown before: People who exercise as much…


The Gains of Weekend Warriors

Skipping workouts Monday through Friday and working out only on weekends isn’t just practical for those leading busy lives, it also works. A new study of more than 350,000 adults comparing mortality rates in so-called weekend warriors to regularly active people found no significant differences. The study was published on July 5 in “JAMA Internal…


Eliminate Flabby Arms With Correct Nutrition and Exercise

As we get older, we tend to lose more muscle mass, especially in our arms and legs. When muscle is lost, fat and fibrous tissue will rush in to take its place, creating extra loose skin, leading to the development of the notorious “bat wings” under our arms. This is a common issue among women…


Home Fitness Luxury

As the popularity of home fitness products continues to rise, we’ve compiled a selection of luxurious equipment for you to consider, so that exercising can enhance your physical health while the brilliant designs nourish the soul. Four in five people in the United States own at least one home fitness device, according to a 2021…