When beginning an exercise program, many medical conditions are taken into consideration by the exercise professional.  One commonly overlooked medical condition is that of a Gastro-intestinal (digestive) disorder.

Diabetes is one of the fastest growing chronic medical conditions sweeping the country.  Approximately one out of every four Americans has diabetes.  So what exactly is diabetes?

People who maintain physically active and healthy lifestyles are known to have a reduced risk of chronic disease.  Exercise is viewed as a primary reason for this reduced risk.

Change is defined as to make different or cause a transformation.  When someone decides to exercise, they are doing so in order to change something about their body.

Contrary to popular belief, it is possible to exercise too much.  This is called over-training.  It is a point in which a person is exercising so hard that their body does not recover.

Now that many of you have started that exercise routine, you may be wondering why your muscles are sore.  To begin with, this is a normal occurring part of starting an exercise program or having a dramatic increase in duration or intensity of ones current exercise routine.  Now this may discourage some people from starting [...]

Exercise is a component in the lives of many women.  However, what should be done in the case of pregnancy.  There is always going to be the safety factor that must be addressed.  Each pregnancy has its own degree of risk so there is no general rule that fits.  Though exercise during pregnancy has shown [...]

Lifting weights to lose weight?  This might not make sense to a lot of people, but it is true.  Losing weight is a combination of eating right (improving the quality of your food choices) and exercise.  More specifically in regards to the exercise, it is more than doing cardiovascular or aerobic workouts to burn the [...]

With the warm weather upon us, many move to the outdoors for exercise.  Staying adequately hydrated is an important factor whether jogging a few miles or playing a pick-up game of basketball.  Any activity that is done in hot weather puts a demand on the body.  To begin, most people are naturally dehydrated.