When’s the best time to take your protein shake? There’s been mixed messages on the topic for a while now, but a new study is claiming that you should be slurping it down right before you settle down to sleep.
Exercise and asthma aren’t mutually exclusive.
Everyone knows how it feels to struggle through a workout when your lungs are basically shrieking that you should just stop and go back to bed. But if working out always makes your lungs feel like you’re in the ninth circle of hell, you might actually have exercise-induced asthma.
Learn How to Fix Muscle Imbalance and Asymmetry: When One Side, Arm or Leg is Bigger or Stronger Than the Other.
If you’ve been working out for any length of time, I’m sure you’ve seen someone who looks like a walking road map. They are so shredded and vascular it’s almost disgusting.
There’s an episode of 30 Rock where Tina Fey’s character, Liz Lemon, lugs around her dirty, rancid gym bag on the subway, creating a protective stink bubble, so people don’t bother her. As a New Yorker who strongly values her personal space—paradoxical, I know—I’ve occasionally considered adopting this method.
Everybody gets sick. But it’s tough to know what to do about it; do you exercise when sick or not?
Should you “sweat it out”? Or get some rest instead?
Walk into any gym and you will automatically be ushered to the segments that are traditionally yours, for women, its aerobics. When women hit the gym most of the time the motive is usually to lose weight, and we have been taught that that can only happen when we do aerobic workouts and dances like Zumba.
Deload week is just taking a break from continuous intensive training. In detail, it is reducing the intensity of weekly training and volume of workouts.
Many women have the expectation of regaining wonderfully looking bodies immediately after giving birth, especially if they didn’t add excess weight as they ate for two.
I remember a girlfriend’s rant about a relationship that was severed by her short term boyfriend, who happened to be a gym instructor. While our entire clique listened and sympathized, I’m sure there was unanimous relief as we would no longer listen to endless talks about this man that our friend clearly obsessed with.