Exercise Environment
Exercises
Guidelines
Mind/Body
Just Getting Started
Athlete—From Weekend Warrior to Elite Competitor
Just for Women
Youth Activity
Exercise and Aging
Fitness Rewards
Overcoming Obstacles
Mental Motivation
Fitness Fuel
Personal Stories
Exercise Environment
- Baby joggers
- Bands and balls: when and why to use them
- Finding the health clubs for the 50+ crowd
- Gardening for the health of it
- Go for the cold: staying active outdoors in winter
- Health clubs: getting the most for your money
- Home free: a weight room of your own
- Play ball in the house
- Play it safe in the sun
- Running through the cold
- Six steps to safe hiking
- Snowshoeing: workout in a winter wonderland
- Stairclimbers: stepping up to fitness
- Swim, bike, run...I'll tri!
- Three reasons to try the treadmill
- Ultrarunning: experiences from 100-mile trail races
- What time should you exercise?
- Winter warning: tips for preventing frostbite and hypothermia
Exercises
- Aerobic exercise
- Bench press using free weights
- Biceps curl using free weights
- Break the routine: discover the latest trends in aerobic exercise
- Circuit training: fast, flexible and fun
- Cardio kickboxing
- Climbing the walls
- Crunches
- Exercise that raises more than your heart rate
- Free weights
- Free weights or machines? Which are better?
- Lateral raise using free weights
- Lunges using free weights
- Military press using free weights
- Pilates
- Power through plyometrics
- Sit-ups
- Squats using free weights
- Stair-climbing
- Start a regular exercise program
- Strength training the missing link
- Stretching exercises
- Step-up using free weights
- Take the plunge—try swimming!
- The benefits and risks of walking versus running
- Triceps extension using free weights
- Want to play hard? Try racquetball
- Water training: more than swimming “upstream” for fitness
- Weight-bearing exercise
- What can a personal trainer do for you?
Guidelines
- Heart healthy physical activity
- A safety checkup for your strength-training routine
- Baffling blunders at the gym
- Bike safety tips
- Building sweat equity: how to start—and stay—on the right fitness track
- Do you need to talk to your doctor before you start an exercise program?
- Exercising caution when you have diabetes
- Exercise for chronic disease relief
- How do you choose the right athletic shoe?
- Intensity check: how hard are you exercising?
- Setting fitness goals
- Safety and injury prevention for runners
- Share your personal trainer and save cash
- Start a regular exercise program
- Strengthening your muscles
- The benefits of a fitness partner
- Walk this way to fitness
- What time should you exercise?
- Winter sports safety
Just Getting Started
- A safety checkup for your strength-training routine
- Aerobic exercise
- Bands and balls: when and why to use them
- Circuit training: fast, flexible and fun
- Do you need to talk to your doctor before you start an exercise program?
- Intensity check: how hard are you exercising?
- Setting fitness goals
- Start a regular exercise program
- Strength training: essential for total fitness
- Stretching exercises
- The benefits of a fitness partner
- Three reasons to try the treadmill
- Walk this way to fitness
- What can a personal trainer do for you?
Athlete—From Weekend Warrior to Elite Competitor
- Drug tests: don’t fall victim to a "false-positive"
- Exercise that raises more than your heart rate
- Give your legs a break: try kayaking
- Mountain biking
- Olympic myths, yarns, tall tales, and half-truths revealed...
- Run for someone else's life
- Running injuries: give it a rest
- Safety tips for in-line skating
- Steroids: bigger is not better
- Take the plunge—try swimming!
- The benefits and risks of walking versus running
- The long road to marathon recovery
- The reality of the "runner's high"
- Women running marathons: do benefits outweigh risks?
- Your first marathon: you can do it!
Exercise and Aging
- Do you need to talk to your doctor before you start an exercise program?
- Exercise and bone health
- Finding the health clubs for the 50+ crowd
- Fitness: elixir for the ages
- Gardening for the health of it
- Get plenty of exercise… but don’t forget to stretch!
- Get strong with strength training
- Keep on movin': exercise after 50
- The Senior Games
- Seniors: it’s never too late to start exercising
- Staying in shape as you age
- Staying active to enjoy your later years
Fitness Rewards
- Exercise and asthma: Is exercise jeopardizing your health?
- Exercise and bone health
- Exercise and pregnancy: a healthy combination
- Fitness: elixir for the ages
- Reduce stress: fit fitness into your life
- Staying in shape as you age
- Strong to the core
- The dangers of hidden abdominal fat
- Tips for reducing stress in your life
Overcoming Obstacles
- ACL injury: the scourge of skiers
- Chiropractic treatment: what you should know
- Don't let injuries handicap your golf game
- Don't play through the pain: alternative exercises for injured people
- Exercising caution when you have diabetes
- Female basketball players hindered by ACL injury
- For women only: sports medicine focuses on females
- Football: play like a champion (without getting hurt)
- Hoop hurts: help for common basketball injuries
- Protecting your pearly whites
- Running injuries: give it a rest
- Soothing the pain of bursitis and tendonitis
- Sports-related wrist and hand injuries
- The hard facts about softball injuries
- The long road to marathon recovery
- Tips for avoiding tennis traumas
- Tips for older adults: ways to avoid injuries during sports and exercise
- Top 5 soccer injuries
- Volleyball injuries: block them before they get worse