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Two consecutive rest days may seem like a luxury, but your fitness lifestyle doesn't end the minute you step outside the gym. It includes rest!...

If you've got your diet and training fundamentals down but are looking to maximize protein synthesis, try these five master-level nutritional strategies!...

This Mother's Day, celebrate fitness! These 5 fit moms share their hints and strategies to help you and your family stay fit, healthy, and happy....

Sometimes plain old yogurt just won't do. Create a creamy, protein-packed treat with this parfait recipe!...

Mother's Day is the perfect time to celebrate moms who balance health and fitness with raising a family. Check out these 35 amazing mamas!...

A study of healthy senior men has found that 'relatively intensive' endurance exercise confers benefits on the heart irrespective of the age at which they began training. The benefits were evident and comparable in those who had started training before the age of 30 or after the age of 40. As a result, said the investigators, 40 is not too old to start endurance training. ...

Rather than smoking or BMI, researchers have found that physical inactivity after 30 is the greatest risk factor for heart disease in women....

Parents, forget the comfort food! It's time to send your college students care packages of fruit, veggies and exercise gear instead....

More support needed for teaching swimming in schoolsDr Craig Avieson and Dr Penny Lamb, of UEA's School of Education and Lifelong Learning, warn swimming provisions are falling to secondary......

When listening to the voices of a sport psychologist, both male and female athletes rate women psychologists more positively than male ones....

Patients who gained weight 18 months after taking Orlistat attributed their weight-loss failure either to the side effects which have prevented them from sticking to the medication or felt that the medication simply had not worked. Orlistat is currently the only prescribed drug for obesity and functions by reducing the amount of fat absorbed from food eaten. ...

A great back workout deserves a complete warm-up. Get your blood flowing from the ground up by combining jogging, pull-ups, and rows!...

With all of his diverse triumphs, it feels like Arnold is five or six men wrapped up into one. Here are the secrets of his unprecedented success, as recalled by his former training partner Ric Drasin!...

Going for a new personal record isn't easy. Max lifts require a lot of training and mental preparation. Here are 5 things you need to know before you attempt a 1RM or new PR....

Feeling unsatisfied with the same old clean/cheat, bulk/cut cycle? There may a better way. Learn the truth about flexible dieting!...

Looking to bump up your protein intake? Trade in the shake and embrace the bake with these 9 recipes from the athletes of Optimum Nutrition!...

One hundred dollars can buy a lot of terrible food, but it can buy an even greater quantity of good food if you know how to do the math. Ride along in the shopping cart with IFBB pro Evan 'Ox' Centopani!...

From the age of 30 onwards, physical inactivity exerts a greater impact on a woman's lifetime risk of developing heart disease than the other well-known risk factors, suggests research. This includes overweight, the finding show, prompting the researchers to suggest that greater effort needs to be made to promote exercise. ...

Brief bursts of intense exercise before meals helps control blood sugar in people with insulin resistance more effectively than one daily 30-minute session of moderate exercise, a study finds. "The notion of doing small amounts of interval exercise before meals is a unique and very important feature of this study," says one researcher. "Sustained hyperglycaemia following meals is an important feature...

A new study of Utah youth with suspected sports-related head injuries found that emergency room visits for children with sports-related head injuries have increased since the state's concussion law......