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6 Tips to Start Working Out — at Any Age
Here are six ways to get over the mental barriers to working out.
Fit for Life: You’re Never Too Old to Get Moving
One of our greatest misconceptions is that we reach peak fitness when we’re young, and then it’s all downhill. Here are fitness tips for life — no matter your age.
Stay in the Game
The benefits of playing sports are as true for adults as for kids. Explore the perks, and get tips for finding the game that’s right for you.
How Fitness Can Improve Your Brain and Mental Health
Moving your body can help you sharpen your focus, improve your mood, and more.
The Powerful Benefits of Moving Your Body
The benefits of physical activity can be felt in every part of the body, making you stronger, smarter, healthier, happier, and even more gorgeous.
6 Tips to Build Grip Strength
Here are six grip strengthening exercises to enhance your grip for improved joint health, athletic performance, and longevity.
How to Improve Your Grip Strength
Train your grip strength for joint health, athletic performance — and your own longevity.
The Low Impact HIIT Workout
Get all the benefits of a high-intensity workout with this five-move, dumbbell-based routine.
The Low Impact HIIT Workout
Get all the benefits of a high-intensity workout with this five-move, dumbbell-based routine.
Can Exercise Prevent Vision Loss?
According to a recent study, even moderate exercise can help slow or even prevent vision loss.
6 Hip Stretches to Improve Mobility and Strength
Keep your hips strong, mobile, and fit for a lifetime with these stretching and strength drills.
How to Strengthen Your Pelvic-Floor Muscles
Strengthen your pelvic-floor muscles with these two simple exercises.
8 Ways Exercise Makes You Gorgeous
Regular exercise also gives you a healthy, glowing look and an unmistakable va-va-voom that you just can’t get any other way.
The Blue Zones Habits for Longevity
Buettner joins us to talk about the Blue Zones — places around the globe with the highest populations of longest-living individuals — and the Power 9 healthy-lifestyle habits they have in common, plus ways we can begin to incorporate these behaviors in our own lives for increased longevity and vitality.
Does Muscle Mass Equal Heart Health?
Greater muscle mass is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a recent study.
How the Ancient Practice of Tai Chi Enhances Your Health
Whether recovering from an injury or making a first foray into fitness, folks of all ages have found that tai chi delivers dramatic results for body, mind and spirit.
9 Strength-Training Benefits For Health, Fitness, and Anti-Aging
Strength training benefits all ages and fitness abilities. Here’s why I consider it the most important type of exercise.
Power Aging
The older, the better? You bet! These age-specific strategies will help you get off on the right foot.
14 Boomers Who’ve Got Game
These senior athletes may inspire you to rethink your perceptions of aging.
How to Build Your Balance
No offense to your wobble board—but the best way to improve your balance may be to keep at least one foot on solid ground.
The Case for Communal Sports
Sports, like tennis, that involve more social interaction may help longevity, according to a recent study.