workouts

5 Ways To Survive Your First Try At Yoga

5 Ways To Survive Your First Try At Yoga

To the uninitiated, yoga is an unapproachable Jedi dojo of spandex-wearing gymnasts with the flexibility of rubber bands. Attempting your first class can be intimidating, so it helps to tag along with someone familiar with the discipline. [More]

Exercise Science Shocker: Regular Exercise And Diet Are The Best Ways To Lose Weight

Exercise Science Shocker: Regular Exercise And Diet Are The Best Ways To Lose Weight

Are you sitting down? Of course you are, that’s why you were interested in a lose-weight-quick scheme to begin with. Well, bad news. Exercise physiologists took at look at several six-week weight loss programs and determined that no, those products don’t work, and that if you want to stop looking like a “dumpling,” it’s going to take at least six months of actual effort.

10 Secrets About Personal Trainers

10 Secrets About Personal Trainers

It’s that time of year to pretend to care about your body for a few weeks before you give up in despair and realize it’s your parents’ fault for not having better genes. SmartMoney has published another one of their “10 Things” articles, this time about the common workout hobo, or as they prefer to be called, “personal trainers.”