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Ab Workouts at the Gym: 23 Creative Exercises to Target Your Core
Why should you train the core muscles? A stronger core can help boost performance, increase injury resilience, and help maximize your ab appeal. Below are four main benefits of training the core muscles with resistance bands, weights, and body weight. Improved balance and stability A strong core is necessary for stabilization during any…
What Are the Benefits of Tennis?
What are the benefits of tennis? Are you considering starting a racquet sport? If so, this is something you might be curious about. It has been said that cardiovascular health can be improved by it, and also that it can be beneficial for weight-loss. But did you realize it has also been demonstrated to…
How to Optimize Meal Timing for Gaining or Cutting
What is nutrient timing? Nutrient timing is a way of changing how much of different kinds of nutrients you eat, in order to improve your health, how well you do during workouts, and how much body fat you have. One important nutrient timing principle is that it is best to eat most non-fruit and…
What Running Does to The Female Body
What does running do to your body when you first start running Although you may feel out of breath and your heart rate will increase, do not worry as this is normal. But what exactly is happening? Each breath of oxygen that comes into your lungs is pumped by your heart to all the…
How To Do an Elimination Diet
Elimination diets are tricky, but they can help you figure out which foods your body doesn’t love. Food allergies, intolerance, or sensitivities can cause bloating, gas, severe diarrhea, constipation, unexplained changes in weight, or nutritional deficiencies, says Maxine Yeung, RD, CPT, the founder of The Wellness Whisk. Kerry Clifford, RD, LDN, with Fresh…
Powerful Bone Broth Health Benefits
What is Bone Broth? This type of broth is made specifically by cooking only bones. This results in a more intense flavor since there’s no meat or vegetables to dilute the taste. SIMMER: Regular broths are simmered for anywhere between 45 minutes and two hours. Bone broths, on the other hand, take significantly longer…
14 Simple Weight Loss Strategies
Do you find it difficult to lose weight, even when you consume a few calories? Do you have trouble with your digestion, even when following your doctor or dietitian’s suggestions? For athletes, losing weight is more complicated than examining the food they eat and how it is prepared. We need to look more…
What Do Olympic Athletes Eat, and Are Their Diets Healthy?
In 2008, it was rumored that Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps consume 12,000 calories a day while training for that year’s Beijing Olympics. He later debunked the statistic in a June 2017 interview with Men’s Health, saying his caloric intake was realistically somewhere between 8,000 and 10,000 per day — but that did nothing…
Self-Care: How to Do It Right Now
Although it may seem counterintuitive, Christine Carter, PhD, a sociologist and senior fellow at the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California in Berkeley, explains that self-care is not selfish. She says that focusing on what makes us feel nourished and what gives us meaning is part of easing feelings of…
How Rheumatoid Arthritis Affects the Whole Body
A message from Ailsa Bosworth (National Patient Champion) At the time, I didn’t even know anyone with RA, so I had no one to talk to about it. If you’ve just been diagnosed with RA, you might be feeling lots of different emotions. You might be feeling emotional, anxious, or afraid of what the…
