Managing extra weight is a fairly new to us, several generations back it was not as widespread as it is today and if you did want to get slimmer at one point or another you just dieted and tracked your overall weight loss. That’s where the “weight loss” term comes from but today it’s more…
If you have to work for home for any reason at all you know that it’s no picnic. We think of home working as stress-free, hyper-productive and totally idyllic. Until we have to do it. Then we realize that our everyday work life has a ready-made structure we fit in and daily rituals[1] that prepare…
When it comes to fitness our minds are the greatest weapon, we’re told. But what does that even really mean? Obviously we all know that part of what we become depends on our ability to keep on going, to will ourselves not to give up, to simply exercise when we don’t feel like it, to…
We obviously believe that exercise is something that you can do on your own, any time, anywhere which is why we have a database of thousands of workouts of every level and category you can focus on and do at home. That doesn’t mean however that gyms are redundant or that a set of exercises…
The first rule of running is anyone can do it. If you can run and if you do run, you are a runner and no one can take that away from you. The best thing about it, is that in order to be a runner you don’t have to apply for a license, pass a…
What if there was a mental exercise you could do that would increase your brain size, make your thinking more efficient, reduce your anxiety levels, increase your productivity and help your body remain younger, longer? With these kinds of claims, if this was a product, we’d all be buying it, but because it’s an activity,…
Home fitness is a challenge. There are a lot of bodyweight exercises that will easily help you build and maintain muscle at home. Starting a home-based fitness regime however and maintaining it long enough to see results is the real challenge. When working (and working out) at home sticking to a fitness routine becomes more…
Running is one of the best forms of exercise there is. It pushes your cardiovascular system to work harder (making your heart muscle stronger and more efficient), it works your body’s ability to use oxygen with every breath you take (your VO2 max), it even helps improve a little on your aerobic capacity (which is…
After the “eat less and exercise more” mantra that’s trotted out every time someone asks about the secret to getting fitter, comes the equally meaningless and overused phrase “listen to your body”. To show just how contradictory that last admonition is consider that we only get fitter, stronger, faster if we put our bodies under…
Physical exercise is not simple. Sure, any of us can do something physical at any time but working out in order to achieve a specific goal is way different. This is because exercise affects the body at many different, frequently overlapping levels. Isolating them in order to study their effects helps us understand how each…
