Lifting a weight to make your muscles adapt to the resistance it presents them with and therefore grow stronger is such an intuitive thing to do when you do it...

Running for most people comes down to speed or length of time. Sprinters just want to go faster while anyone who runs for more than a kilometer wants to be...

When you are putting your body through its paces what you don’t do is every bit as important as what you do actually do. The amount of rest you get,...

Suppose we were to tell you that your bones will determine how well your memory works, whether you are going to get depressed or not, how overweight you will end...

There are two ways to count the way we age: Chronologically, which is counting the years that have passed since the day we were born and biologically, which assesses our...

High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is probably the only shortcut there is when it comes to building strong muscles and losing weight. But HIIT training is also a high, external...

Sunny days invite running. The mental image of warm weather, sunny environments and a cooling breeze as we run is hard to resist, even if the reality most of us...

The shoulder joint is one of the most complex joints in the body. It is actually made up of two separate joints, the glenohumeral and acromioclavicular joints, which work together...

We know that regular exercise boosts our health because we’ve been told this by virtually everyone since we were born. But how does physical activity do that exactly? Better understanding...

According to a Gallup survey almost a quarter of the world feels lonely. The World Health Organization (WHO) called it a “loneliness epidemic” and the U.S. Surgeon General put out...