Home Workouts: Are They Really Worth It

The DVD is loaded in the player, you have the TV turned to just the right angle for viewing, you have a cold-water bottle strapped to the side of your exercise bicycle, and you’re ready to begin your home workout. But can you really gain as much benefit from workouts...

Why Eat Genetically-Modified Foods

There are people who become defensive when the subject of genetically-modified foods comes up. Some believe that it’s wrong to genetically “modify” natural foods such as fruits and vegetables. But if you think about it, much of what we eat has been modified in some...

Just Because You’re Retired…

…doesn’t mean you can also retire from exercise.  If you do, woe to you!             If there’s one group of people that doctors and medical practitioners like to watch closely, it’s the elderly.  Health experts are particularly concerned about older people who have...

Exercise: Any Age is a Good Age

“When we were kids, I remember my mother chasing us out of the house telling us to play outdoors in minus 20 degree weather saying the fresh cold air would do us some good.  She didn’t want us staying indoors even if it was blowing snow outside.”   This comment came...

10 Myths About Fitness Training

Everyone has heard about the myths associated with the fitness industry. Even people who don’t work out have heard most of them. Statements like “Athletes like baseball players and soccer players shouldn’t lift weights because it will make them slow and tight.” “You...

14 Top Exercise Myths

1.     Fat can Turn into muscle, just like Lead can not turn into gold they are two different chemical compounds and one can’t turn into another. So never worry about your muscle turning into fat and unfortunately fat can’t turn into muscle so you got either lose your...

Top 20 Myths about Nutrition

You rely on nutrition information to help you achieve your health goals Here are twenty top myths about nutrition that can help you weed out the good information from the bad. 1.      All fats are bad. Unsaturated fats like Omega-3’s found in fish and monounsaturated...

Arizona Strongman Competition

The Arizona Strongman Competition has long gathered the attention of macho men and the media alike, for their unconventional competitive events, which are a sheer test of one’s strength, endurance, and lifting skills. In other words, the Arizona Strongman...

History of Bodybuilding

It is a bit impractical to draw a starting line for the history of bodybuilding, but it is believed that serious athletes have indulged in various muscle building exercises even centuries back, in India, Rome and Greece in order to improve their performances on the...

Bodybuilding Figure Posing Routines

Developing a great physique is the aim of many health enthusiasts. Lifting weights, combined with aerobic exercises are very effective in developing a strong body. However, it is not enough to just develop a great physique, when entering the world of competitive...