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The Carb Controversy

There are as many diet fads under the sun as there are crazy people dreaming them and desperate people willing to try anything to lose weight. Unfortunately that means that a lot of bad science gets preached as true, and a lot of good science gets twiste... Read >

The Importance of Timing Your Meals

If you sit down and try to figure out what your optimum caloric intake should be, if you factor in your weight, height, exercise level and all the other factors that count, you will end up with a total number of needed calories that probably range from 1,... Read >

The Value of Hydration

You’ve heard no doubt that our bodies are composed of about 70% water, haven’t you, and this should give you a good idea as to what this article is going to be about. Whether you’re working in the sun and sweating profusely, whether you’re exercising dail... Read >

Exercise and Food: Timing Your Meals

If you’ve been to the gym, you’ve seen those big guys lifting iron. They pump a few reps, and then some of them scramble desperately for their gym bags, sobbing inconsolably over ever second wasted, fumbling for their squeeze bottles which they then upend... Read >

Knowing Your Limits

There I was in a yoga class, and the instructor had told us all to assume plank position. That’s when you’re in a pushup position, but instead of straight arms you’re resting on your forearms, body stiff, core engaged. Our instructor told us to hold it fo... Read >

Stay Healthy Avoid Injury

We human beings are filled with ego and pride, which unfortunately often results in our attempting extreme exercises that our bodies are not prepared to handle. Whether that means attempting to run too far, lift too much, or punish our bodies with extreme... Read >

The Value of the Perceived Exertion Test

There are many ways to determine whether you are pushing yourself too hard or not hard enough. When athletes begin to train in earnest they want to know how hard they are pushing themselves, whether they are crossing into the danger zone, the red zone, or... Read >

Willpower and Exercise

Most of us have spent our whole lives living in comfort. We have been driven everywhere, we have worked desk jobs, we sleep in expensive, soft beds, we eat delicious food that it takes moments to prepare. We’re simply not used to pain, discomfort, intensi... Read >

What Is the Running Talk Test?

Many people are training today for running competitions, seeking to extend the distance they can cover through incremental gains, looking to improve the strength of their legs, their cardiovascular system, seeking to ever improve upon their current condit... Read >

General Tips On How to Avoid Injury

Everybody wants to work out, but unfortunately most of us when we decide to get back into the swing of things demand too much from our body. We want to go extreme right from the get go, to run that marathon in only two month’s time, to go straight to the ... Read >

Serious Exercise Plans: No Dreaming

We all want great results. The most competitive of us are goal oriented, and the key to success has always been to fixate on your goals, to post images on your dream board, to remain inspired by never forgetting what we’re striving for. However, we often ... Read >

How Yoga can Help Release the Energy of Your Spine

The human body is a marvelous thing, and our spines are feats of mechanical wonder, composed of dozens upon dozens of vertebrae, all of them interlocked and then held together by cartilage and ligaments. Of all the mammals, we have the smallest base of su... Read >

How To Stay Motivated In Your Exercise

It’s easy to decide to get into shape, to explode up from the couch one day and declare to the world that from now on you will be a fitness maverick, you will exercise right and eat right until you look like an Adonis, that nothing will hold you back. But... Read >

How To Stand Up In the Squat

The squat is universally admired for being the most complete single exercise one can do in the gym. Other than its main competitor, the deadlift, there are no other exercises which call into action quite so many muscle groups and demand as much improvemen... Read >

How to Control How Much You Eat

Our bodies evolved during a time when food was often scarce, a time of feast and famine, so that when there was plenty to be had we would glut ourselves, growing fat so as to ward off the dangers of imminent famine. We have retained those instincts, but n... Read >