When people talk about exercise, they often mean high-impact cardio workouts or gym sessions that focus on lifting bigger and bigger weights. Strength, speed and endurance may get more attention than flexibility, but without flexibility, you won’t have any of those other things. Flexibility is about the range of motion in your joints and your […]
Whatever sport you practice and whatever your level, your biggest goal is probably going to be improvement. You want to be better tomorrow than you were today, whether that’s to beat a competitor or just to challenge yourself. There are so many factors that affect sports performance, and some of them are easier to measure
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One of the great frustrations of age is how it damages mobility. You get slower and stiffer until activities that you used to enjoy easily become dreaded challenges to avoid. Luckily, if you start taking care of your mobility while you are still young, getting older will hopefully be less of a burden. Think about
One of the most basic measures of your health and fitness regimen is your daily performance. You’re not going to achieve anything without a plan, and that plan is probably going to involve tracking what you do on a day-by-day basis. This doesn’t mean you have to do something every day. Rest days are just
You don’t have to be one of those people who ties their whole body in knots to be flexible. You just need to keep your joints moving. Everyone struggles a bit as they get older, but there are ways you can improve your flexibility and slow down the effects of aging. The joints are the
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Sport comes with a natural sense of competition. Even if you don’t have an opponent, you’re always being challenged to beat your own previous best. I know I’m always trying to figure out how to improve my own performance and realizing just how many factors need to be considered. Of course, some of it depends
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Ah, mobility. It’s something most of us have in youth but then slowly erodes as we get older. Muscles and joints become stiffer, and we can’t move in the way that we used to. For other people, such as those with injuries or disabilities, mobility is always going to be difficult. If you can, you
Every day’s a new challenge when you have a health and fitness regimen. How do you get better each time? How do you measure it? What do you need to do to make sure you can keep it up day by day? Routine. It’s a hard thing to get into, but once it’s there, it
Any article about staying healthy is probably going to start with diet and exercise. We all know by now that these are two of the most important things to get right, regardless of any more radical steps we take to try to improve our health. What may not be as obvious is how living better
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Now, I’m sure we all know that water is important. Just look at how intensely scientists have searched for evidence of water on Mars – it’s because water is the first thing you need for life. Look at an oasis in the desert, and how people and animals from miles around – even those that
