Fitness Building muscle is also associated with better brain and heart health, and boosts mood. Having a healthy body may mean you need to gain some muscle while you’re losing some fat. After age 30, you need to work harder at building and maintaining muscle mass. Here are some easy, at-home ways to get stronger: […]
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Fitness Add muscle-strengthening to your aerobic exercises to deliver even more health benefits, like protecting your joints, better balance and more restful sleep. Classes:Take a strength-training class at your local fitness center to learn the basics. Equipment:Use dumbbell or hand/ankle weights, resistance tubes, an exercise ball, and the weight of your own body. At-home gear:Use
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Fitness Speaking of ways to gauge fitness, medical experts say that carrying as little as 5 to 10 pounds of excess fat around the torso may be related to health risk factors like elevated cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood sugar levels. So a potbelly may be an obvious sign that you’re out of shape, outside
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BE FIT Rucking is an excellent cardiovascular exercise and builds strength and stamina. It simply means to walk while carrying weight. All you need is a backpack to hold some weight and a safe place to walk. Here’s how to get started: * Plan a walking path. Depending on your fitness level, beginners should plan
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BE FIT Lifting weights is great exercise. But if you don’t do it properly, you can get hurt. Here’s how you can get started, get stronger and avoid injuries. Learn good technique Have an instructor show you how to lift. You can use books, videos or virtual instruction if you can’t see a trainer in
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BE FIT 1.Sweat.Walking, jogging, stair climbing or biking are aerobic exercises. They get your heart pumping and your body sweating. These exercises are good for heart health and help to shed pounds. 2.Strengthen.You don’t have to lift weights to get healthier muscles. Push-ups, using a resistance band, or lifting cans of soup will help tone
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BE FIT If you want good health, a long life, and feel your best well into old age, the most important thing you can do is strength training, said Dr. Brett Osborn, author of Get Serious, A Neurosurgeon’s Guide to Optimal Health and Fitness. “Our ability to fight off disease resides in our muscles,” Dr.
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BE FIT If you’re lifting weights or doing push-ups, you must want strong muscles, right? Actually, weight-training exercises, sometimes called resistance exercises, are great for your bones too. Men and women of any age can benefit from the bone-building effects of strength training. It’s especially important as we get older, when bones tend to get
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BE FIT “A strong core is key to good posture and for doing most day-to-day activities with ease, such as getting in or out of a car, walking up and down stairs, or reaching for a book from a shelf,” said Michelle Miller, an exercise physiologist at Indiana University. Weak core muscles can result in
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