Any fitness routine must include core strength exercises to be complete. This is true whether you’re a man or a woman. While most of us tend to focus mainly on the sexy six pack, strengthening your core does so much more than just make you look good, it can affect the condition of your whole…
How to Use Strength Exercise for Healthy Aging
When Judith Salerno, the deputy director of the National Institute on Aging, ran her first half-marathon at the age of 50 after exercising with her personal trainer, 77-year old Dixon Hemphill, she showed once and for all you can stay physically fit well past 40. In fact, a combination of diet and regular exercise is…
A Strength Exercise That Will Improve Your Balance
Poor lower extremity strength is the number one reason that people fall. A sedentary individual loses about 40% of their muscle mass and 30% of their strength by age 70. Unfortunately, the lower extremities are more affected than the upper extremities. One of the most practical and functional lower extremity strength tests is the Chair…
Home Abs Exercises
Exercises That You Can Easily Do People are prone to just sit around on the couch and watch their TV all day. This is also one of the biggest reasons why people are getting out of shape. Instead of just working out for a couple of minutes every day, they will just sit on their…
The Right Abs Exercise
Developing the abdominal muscles is one of the most common goals of fitness enthusiasts, bodybuilders, and people who are simply interested in having a fit body. This may seem easy with proper diet and abs exercise. Still, unknown to many, without the proper guidance and exercise routines, anyone’s effort to develop that much desired six…
Abs Exercises to Get Flat Stomach
No one looks good with ugly flab on their stomach. And who wouldn’t want to show off their nice flat abs! With so much information and exercise routines and thousands of gyms springing up, promising you of firmer flatter abs. Making the right decision in this aspect is definitely a task, something if accomplished is…
Lower Abs Exercise – Finally, Lower Ab Exercises Guaranteed to Work!
Trying to figure out what the best lower abs exercise are is a pretty difficult thing to do these days. There is a bunch of garbage our there that just gives you useless information, or worse yet, they tell you only part of the equation to successful lower abs exercise. In this article I’m going…
How to Properly Perform Abs Exercises
Abs exercises are a part of many of our work out routines, but a majority of us are performing them wrong. Ever wonder why you don’t get six pack abs after doing hundreds of crunches every week? When performing abs exercises, it is important to keep several things in mind. Form, diet, and frequency play…
The Importance of Stretching Exercises
Muscles and connective tissues shorten over time and that results in less flexibility. If your muscles have gone some time without being used, they tend to become weaker and quite stiff. The risk of injury is greatly increased when you start to use those muscles suddenly. If you are doing regular stretching exercises to lengthen…
Lower Back Stretching Exercises
If bodies are considered as machines, the majority of the muscles will be equivalent to the lever systems that push, pull, and rotate the other parts of the machine. The muscles, especially those that are found around the arms, legs, and trunks, pull the bones and make body movement possible. When muscles become weak, moving…