If you can’t start an exercise program because you’re overwhelmed by the mere thought of spending hours every week, it doesn’t take that much time at all to achieve perhaps the greatest health benefit of all: a longer life.
Tag Archives: Exercise
Plant the Seeds for a Lifetime of Bone Health
- 28
- Dec
Want to help convince your kids why they should be exercising every day, rather than gluing themselves to the couch or bed for endless hours of sedentary screen time? How about better bone health when they get older. Research suggests kids who participate in moderate- to high-intensity exercise as young as age 12 have a […]
Two Minutes of Exercise = Two Hours of Brain Health?
- 19
- Oct
As few as two minutes – is that all it takes to optimize your brain for up to two hours? If what you’re doing is aerobic exercise, then the answer appears to be a resounding yes, according to a new research review. In evaluating 13 studies that investigated the influence of aerobic exercise on memory […]
Cancer Loves When You Sit Around
- 24
- Aug
Unfortunately, the world is collectively spending more time sitting around these days, and as you might expect, COVID-19 is the culprit. When gyms, parks, athletic facilities close; when all but essential workers stay at home all day; and when constant media reports keep us glued to our proverbial seats (in modern terms, our cellphones, computers, […]
A Great Time (and a Great Reason) to Vary Your Exercise
- 17
- Aug
Your initial reaction when COVID-19 prompted stay-at-home orders and shuttering of non-essential businesses such as your local gym may have been, How am I possibly going to maintain my exercise routine? Hopefully by now, you’ve figured out a few workarounds; here’s a simple suggestion that can reap big fitness benefits, now and in the post-COVID […]
