America has an obesity problem. The National Institutes of Health estimates that two in five adults are overweight and one out of every three adults are obese. Though a healthy diet has the biggest ...

As for how often you should be doing cardio, the ACSM recommends 150 minutes every week, which you can split up into 30 minutes, five days a week. Cardio has numerous benefits, from burning fat and ...

Anaerobic exercise is similar to aerobic exercise but uses a different form of energy — quickly and immediately. Anaerobic exercises include high-intensity interval training (HIIT), weight lifting, ...

Mandy Hagstrom is affiliated with Sports Oracle, a company that delivers the IOC diploma in Strength and Conditioning. Anurag Pandit is currently on a Research Training Program scholarship for his PhD ...

Isolation exercises can help you build all of them. But perhaps more importantly, performing exercises that allow you to isolate individual muscle groups can help you eliminate muscle imbalances, more ...

For people who don’t already exercise, short bursts of deliberate activity significantly improved cardiorespiratory fitness.

Cardio is good for us. We need both cardio and strength training for basic health, as well as our athletic goals. But what actually counts as cardio? Can you count walking? Lifting weights? Anything ...

Aerobic exercise, also known as cardio, "involves activities that use large muscle groups rhythmically and continuously, raising the heart and breathing rates," explains Gontang. He says that the word ...