Category: Health Fitness

Exercise is important to our fitness and general well-being as we age. Aging can cause older women to experience decreased muscle tone, flexibility, and endurance. Exercise can help remedy these problems. However, many women don’t exercise because it’s often difficult to get to the gym, or they think the...

How To Lose Weight Fast – What’s The Secret? Everyone wants to know how to lose weight fast. The wedding, the trip to Mexico, or the class reunion may be coming up. Whatever the reason, people always want to know the secret to losing weight fast. Well, maybe you’re...

The main benefit of elliptical training is that you can exercise with minimal impact on your knees and joints. Throughout the entire workout, you won’t actually have to lift your feet off a surface and reposition them. But that’s where some people have trouble with elliptical workouts. Maintaining constant...

You often hear people say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but what are the reasons behind that statement? Many people skip breakfast or substitute coffee simply because they don’t have time to eat properly in the rush to get to work in the morning....

If you are looking for information on apple cider vinegar, you have come to the right place. This type of vinegar is what you get when you let apple cider ferment into alcohol and then let the alcohol ferment into vinegar. The substance left in vinegar is acetic acid...

Vilfredo Pareto was an Italian engineer, sociologist, he was the father of the Pareto principle, now also known as the 80/20 rule. Pareto observed that 80% of income in Italy went to 20% of the population. Pareto later conducted surveys in other countries and, to his surprise, found that...

The knee joint is made up of a number of structures, including ligaments, tendons, cartilage, and bones. When any of these are affected due to injury like torn ligament or torn cartilage or some medical conditions like arthritis, gout and infections or sometimes some hip or foot problem then...

The number of calories you burn swimming depends on your stroke, effort, speed, distance, duration, gender, weight and ability. Since most people swim with a combination of strokes at various intensities, it’s difficult to calculate the exact number of calories. For example, a 150-pound athlete burns about 272 calories...

Losing weight can be really hard; especially since it involves a lot of discipline that can be difficult for some people to maintain. Also, it may take some time. Although there are a plethora of diet, fitness, and weight loss programs available at your disposal that promise to deliver...

Strength shoes are shoes that have raised platforms in the front. They are supposed to increase calf size, strengthen the Achilles tendon, increase fast-twitch muscles, improve vertical jump by as much as 5 to 10 inches, and reduce 40-yard dash time. The theory is that up to 30% of...