Exercise
You don’t need to walk 10,000 steps to benefit from your walk
New research shows that several factors may play a role in determining how walking benefits your health.
Exercise
Skip scrolling before your workout: It can affect you like 3-4 cigarettes
Social media can affect how well you perform during exercise and in other demanding situations.
Strength Training
Want to strengthen your core after 60? Trainer recommends six exercises
Keeping your stomach firm can become more difficult with age, but doing more abdominal exercises does not necessarily produce the results many people hope for.
Exercise
Just 2.5 hours of moderate exercise a week may make your brain look nearly a year younger
A 12-month randomized trial in midlife adults put a specific number on that payoff.
Exercise
Aerobic exercise may outperform every other treatment for chronic knee pain
A large new BMJ review ranked simple aerobic activity above every other exercise type tested.
Exercise
You don’t need to walk 10,000 steps to benefit from your walk
New research shows that several factors may play a role in determining how walking benefits your health.
Exercise
Skip scrolling before your workout: It can affect you like 3-4 cigarettes
Social media can affect how well you perform during exercise and in other demanding situations.
Strength Training
Want to strengthen your core after 60? Trainer recommends six exercises
Keeping your stomach firm can become more difficult with age, but doing more abdominal exercises does not necessarily produce the results many people hope for.
Exercise
Just 2.5 hours of moderate exercise a week may make your brain look nearly a year younger
A 12-month randomized trial in midlife adults put a specific number on that payoff.
Resistance bands vs. free weights: which actually builds more muscle?
A new trial in older adults finds elastic bands hold their own against dumbbells.
20 minutes a day could make a difference to bowel cancer risk
New British research suggests that everyday exercise may have an impact on the risk of bowel cancer.
How fast should you walk? The speed by age that predicts your health
Your everyday walking pace is one of the simplest health signals you can measure at home.
How much should you be able to lift? Squat, bench and deadlift by age
A study of 809,986 powerlifting entries shows what strong looks like at every age.
Your fitness tracker may be giving you the wrong calorie number after every workout
A new study finds four popular smartwatches missed calorie burn by 15 to 25 percent.
How much should you be able to overhead press? The standards by age and sex
The overhead press is one of the classic tests of upper-body strength. Here is where you stand.