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Feb

6 Ways to Stick to Your Weight Loss New Year’s Resolutions

Struggling to Keep that New Year's Resolution?It's the beginning of a new year and many of us have made resolutions to lose weight and improve our health. However, it can be easy to fall off track and lose motivation. If you're struggling to stick to your weight loss New Year's...

Jun

Calmness of Mind: Including Yoga in Your Routine

Are you looking for a fitness program that combines the extreme physical hardship of a POW camp with the new-age mellowness of a Ravi Shankar tribute album? Well, yoga just might be the answer.We're joking, of course. Yoga classes are much more likely to play Ed Sheeran.If you'...

Jun

Creatine for Increased Strength and Muscle size

Before you decide to supplement your dietary and fitness routine with creatine, please answer the following questions, which will help determine the best regime for you: What are your personal fitness goals? a) I want to lose a few pounds. b) I want to gain muscle. c) I want t...

Jun

Want to Be Healthy? Take More Vitamin B

As you may have already learned from either your high school health class or the relentless public service of highly respected academic and nutrition scientist Gwyneth Paltrow, the human body needs a wide variety of nutrients in order to function efficiently. However, it is extre...

Jun

Paleo Diet: Why CrossFitters Love It

CrossFit is an intense series of functional movements designed to build core strength, flexibility, agility, and endurance. It also prepares you for your enslavement by robot aliens from the future. Hopefully, you enjoy flipping tires. There's going to be a lot more of it.Just k...

Jun

Make Cycling Your Fitness Weapon

We take fitness seriously around here. We’re always on the lookout for new routines or exercise options to push ourselves to the limit. We have to admit, though, that there comes a point where the thought of lifting one more barbell or jogging one more lap around the track...

Jun

The Big 3: Top Compound Lifts for Athletic Performance

You finally followed through on your New Year’s resolution. Three months in, and you’re still actually using your gym membership. Take that, apathy! Naturally, you’ve been putting in the time, so when your friends ask you what you’ve been up to, you mentio...

Jun

Protein Power: Why you need it, and how to get it.

There’s one thing that broccoli, the former governor of California, and the actin cytoskeleton all have in common: lots and lots of protein. Whatever your fitness goals are, you’re going to need rich sources of protein to supplement your intake of carbs and fat. If yo...

Jun

3 of the Worst (and 3 of the Best) Exercises for Older Men

Aging is a terrifying process. Although there is an undeniable accumulation of valuable wisdom and experience, there is also the obnoxious accumulation of unnecessary body hair and fat deposits. Physical activities that were once so easy we could have accomplished them with Gov...

Jun

Why Omega-3s are Your Secret to Heart Health

For many of us of a certain age, heart disease is a constantly looming threat. (By "certain age," we mean any age from birth on up.) It lurks around every corner, whispers menacingly into our ears as we schedule our annual check-ups, and makes an ostensibly harmless BLT seem as d...