Tag: strength
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When is the best time to start exercising? Now
Historically, humans needed to be active to hunt and gather food, escape predators, migrate from place to place and do strenuous activities for daily living. Over time, the need to be active for basic survival decreased creating the need build activity into daily life. This generally is promoted as exercise- discrete and planned bouts of…
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Can exercise make you live longer?
If you want to live longer and be healthy, you should exercise regularly. Or at least that’s what we’re told. Constant physical activity is one of the hallmarks of the so-called Blue Zones; areas where there more people live past a century than anywhere else. And if you ask anyone over 100 years what’s their…
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Why Strength Training is a Must as We Get Older
When you hear of someone talking about strength training, what do you think of? A bodybuilder? Someone like Dwayne Johnson? Or maybe it’s a young guy in a tank top and sunglasses at the gym grunting hard as he lifts weights with his friends yelling at him. While most people strength training are in their…
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Is stretching good for you?
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been told stretching is good for the body. It’s something we should all do as it increases flexibility. And from high school to university, many of us have been taught flexibility is considered one of the five components of fitness. A quick search confirms this and results…