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A cup of coffee for your muscles?  Scientists at the University of Georgia revealed that taking a caffeine supplement (equal to 2 cups of coffee) after exercise reduces muscle soreness more than pain relievers can.  Caffeine blocks a chemical that activates pain receptors. 
Adenosine is a chemical released as part of the inflammatory response to injury.  […]

Sculpt a stable, injury-resistant core.  Like a baseball team, a healthy body needs to be strongest right up the middle.  Plus, women think a tight midsection is hot.
The core -your abs, hips, and lower back- is the most important area of your body when it comes to injury prevention and overall performance.  For great results, […]

The last place your body deposits fat is in the shoulder, making it one of the easiest muscles to define.  If your shoulders don’t pop after working them out, then that is a sign that you might need to focus more on fat loss.
You may feel tight now, but you were born with tremendous shoulder […]

Do you want a harder core?  Then try a much harder exercise.  Canadian researchers have determined that your abs work nearly as hard when you do a plank on a Swiss ball instead of on the floor.  To perform a plank, get into a pushup position, but place your forearms on the floor or Swiss […]

Summer is already here!  Get out and do some exercise.  There are many things you can do out and enjoy this nice weather.  Jogging for example.  All you need to jog is a good pair of running shoes. You can jog alone, with the dog, with a friend or even the kids and because it’s jogging […]

 
Get a jump on healthy living by incorporating exercise into your everyday life. Staying active reduces your risk of heart disease and can also help prevent heart problems by controlling weight and high blood pressure, keeping cholesterol levels healthy, and preventing and controlling diabetes. You don’t have to run a marathon to get results.
Try:
- Taking […]

If you don’t have time for a 30 minute workout, stop feeling guilty. In a recent study of former couch potatoes, ten minutes of exercise done three times a day lowered fat and triglyceride levels more effectively than the full half-hour blast.
Researchers aren’t sure why, but it may be that short sessions throughout the day keep […]

A University of Helsinki study of 7,000 adults found that those who’d packed on pounds in the previous year were more likely to have logged overtime hours. Lack of time for diet and exercise is most likely the cause, but it’s also possible that work stress has a direct effect on weight gain through changes […]

Weekly weigh-ins are a staple of many popular diet programs, but studies now show that daily weighing is the key to lasting weight loss.  When researchers at the University of Minnesota monitored the scale habits of 1,800 dieting adults, they found that those who stepped on every day lost an average of 12 pounds over […]

It’s no coincidence that your interval workouts often feel easier later in the day.  Researchers at the University of South Carolina found that people swam a 200-meeter time trial nearly six seconds faster in the early evening than they did in the morning.
 “This should hold true for any brief (five-minute) athletic performance, such as sprinting”, […]