The health benefits of a daily walk are well established; a constitutional walk reduces the risk of heart disease, lowers blood pressure and LDL (the “bad” cholesterol), reduces stress, boosts ...

Strength training for seniors helps boost stability, mobility, and confidence by targeting major muscles to support safety with everyday activities.

Poor form can make planks less effective and slow your progress toward your strength training goals. To add insult to injury, doing planks incorrectly can lead to an actual injury. Let's avoid that.

If we’re lucky, we age. If we’re active, we may be able to avoid getting old. Increasing our physical strength and flexibility while improving posture and balance can pave the way for aging well and ...

Build lean muscle after 60 with 4 simple moves like squats and RDLs that train more muscles than machines and boost strength fast.

In a recent Instagram post, Joy Bhat, M.D., shared insights into how her 79-year-old father, Naras Bhat, M.D., became a "super ager" by staying strong, sharp, mobile and independent. "It's not luck," ...

When Linda Steinworth returned to the gym this summer, she chose to drive about 20 minutes to the Woodbury YMCA because she could join the SilverSneakers program for free through her health insurance.

Making exercise resolutions for 2024 is easy. It’s much harder to follow through. These seven tips offer some surprisingly simple and practical ways to establish exercise habits that stick. Perhaps ...

It can look almost too easy: athletes gliding along on a bike, runners shuffling at a pace slower than most people’s warm-up, or someone strolling so gently it barely seems like exercise at all. Yet ...

Prolonged desk work can lead to musculoskeletal problems ranging from annoying aches and pains to injuries. We consulted doctors, personal trainers and others to devise short, easy exercises for your ...

Research shows that simple, practical strategies can help people stay active through Christmas and into the new year ...