Safe and Effective Winter Exercise

Winter comes as a challenge for people who work out. The cold requires special care to be taken while exercising. Here are some tips to be kept in mind while exercising in winter. Wear Proper Clothing Wearing proper clothing is one of the prerequisites of good winter...

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...

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...

The Facts About Over Training

To be a great athlete (and even just to be a good one), you need to train, and when you train, you are putting your body under stress. This is the only way that we as human beings know of that allows us to develop muscles, speed, strength and everything else an...

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...

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...