Quick and Easy Stretches to Warm Up
Power stretching is used when you want to develop quick reflexive responses. The concept behind power stretching is simple – a stretched muscle will respond...
Exercise & Fitness
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Complex Hardware of The Ankle
In order to walk, not only must our feet have the right hardware in the form of muscles, tendons, ligaments, bones, nerves, and energy supply...
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Ankle Bones, Ligaments and Tendons
The ankle is the springboard for human movement. Ever since the day long ago when hominids first made the leap from the trees and stood...
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How to Relax Muscles
How come you don’t fall over when you close your eyes, put your hands over your ears, hold your breath, and stay still? You stay...
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Strengthen Upper Body with Free Weights
The bench press on a pin-loaded or hydraulic machine is a good exercise for the pectoral muscles. It is suitable for a wide range of...
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Muscle Hypertrophy
It is generally true that bigger muscles are stronger muscles. On the other hand it is possible that someone with smaller muscles may be stronger...
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Exercises for The Vertebrae
Exercises of the vertebral column have two functions: to maintain or increase flexibility; and to maintain or increase the strength of surrounding muscles. Flexibility is...
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Cross-Training Plan for Fitness to Enjoy Life
Cross-training is about increasing performance without increasing the chances of injury. It’s an exercise for real life, where you need your body to undertake different...
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Metabolic Rates
Once the fuels are in your body, you have to reprocess them in order to utilize them to provide the energy and building blocks for...
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A Prescription for Endurance
Let’s just pause for a moment and revise the steps in developing your home fitness program. You’ve carefully thought about why you want to get...
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Low-Impact Aerobics
High impact is not necessarily bad. Lots of everyday activities are high impact. Running is a high-impact activity because both feet are off the ground...
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Top 40 Fitness Tips You Need To Know
Fitness is having enough energy to perform daily tasks efficiently, and with enough reserve energy to enjoy leisure activities. Fitness is not merely a measure...
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How to Increase Your Flexibility Without Fatigue
Exercise can be divided into two broad categories: hard exercise and soft exercise. Most people think that exercise and fitness are all about the first...
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How to Get The Most Fitness from Exercise
Fitness is the ability to do exercise, recover from the stress and strain, and then come back and do more work. Increases in fitness depend...
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Effects of Exercise on Bones and Joints
Osteoporosis is a lifestyle disease of sedentary cultures — it is practically unknown in tribal societies where life-long physical activity is the norm. Osteoporosis is...