Exercise lowers blood pressure by making the heart stronger and increasing the elasticity of blood vessels. It can also help lower the risk of heart disease.

According to the WHO, 31% of adults fail to engage in the recommended daily physical activity. And as a result, they sometimes face multiple health issues like heart diseases, a decrease in energy ...

Understanding your heart rate is crucial for more than just reaching optimal fitness–it can also help to reduce injury and ...

An international team of researchers is studying how vibration applied to tendons influences how people experience physical ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Balance. Statistics show that most Americans spend an average of 10 ...

Certified trainers said the best time of day to exercise for weight loss is the time you’ll stick with Morning exercisers may be more likely to stick to their routine. Evening exercisers may benefit ...

Exercise changes your body in complex ways. Discover what happens to your muscles, heart, and mind when you start working out consistently over time.

Let’s start thinking differently about exercise. Here’s how we know. Animal exercise studies typically run rats for weeks on running wheels. The animals gleefully run every night, sprinting several ...

Most people who enthusiastically begin fitness journeys abandon them within two months. This discouraging statistic isn’t about laziness or lack of commitment – it reflects a fundamental ...

The health benefits of exercise are well known: it helps you sleep better, improves mood and anxiety, it helps with your metabolism, and (my favorite benefit) it can be really fun. I started ...

If you’ve been diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, you probably have shortness of breath during physical exertion. Regular exercise may seem intimidating, but it’s actually ...

This is part three of our four-part series of stories exploring stress, the nuances that come with the psychological and physiological response and its relationship with running. Read part four here.