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Keep the tape measure. Toss the scale.

It's about your waist, not your weight. Your height-to-waist ratio is a much better indicator of your health than your height-to-weight ratio (BMI). Keep your waist circumference to less than half your height. Or you'll be at significantly higher risk for high blood pressure, diabetes, heart attacks and strokes.
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So Long

As long as they get. Compared to those short Winter days, these Summer days give you about six extra hours of daylight. You can do a four-hour walk or hike before high noon. Use 'em or lose 'em. Here's how.
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Better Cheaper Stronger: Upper Back

Not strong like Arnold. Just stronger than you are now. So that you can do a lot of things more easily and comfortably. Today's "Reverse Fly" strengthens the back and shoulder muscles you use to prevent rounded shoulders. No machines or weights. You can do this with a resistance band.
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Better Cheaper Stronger: Hamstrings

If you want to increase your leg strength before you start a jogging or running program, today's Leg Curl is a great Way. It'll strengthen your hamstrings before you ask them to go the extra mile out on the street. No weight machine necessary. Just a featherweight resistance tube.
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Better Cheaper Stronger: Hips and Quads

If you want to increase your leg strength before you start a jogging or running program, today's Hip Flexion is a great Way. It'll strengthen your hip flexors and your quadriceps. Before you ask them to go the extra mile out on the street. No weight machine necessary. Just a featherweight resistance tube.
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Jog. Live 6 years longer. Really.

This just in: Regular jogging shows dramatic increase in life expectancy. I thought you'd want to know. How regular? 1 or 2 hours per week. How fast? Slower. "Slow" or "moderate" paces produce the greatest increase in longevity.
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Let’s Do Your Math. Advanced Class.

Actually, let's let a computer at the National Institutes of Health do the math for you. Plug in your age, weight, height and a few other things. Press Play. A second later, you have the answer: Slower. So what's the question?
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The Walk That Ate Chocolate Brussels without sprouts

Brussels, Belgium just might be the best place in the world to enjoy all the health benefits of chocolate. More than 500 chocolatiers make this beautiful walking city a perfect place to burn more calories than you sample in a 10-mile Walk.
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Lean Back

Strengthen your abdominal and lower back muscles. And your hamstrings and quadriceps. And glutes and thighs. All in less than a minute a day.
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Keep it up. At any age.

All you need is frequent exercise - if you want to maintain muscle strength and mass. At any age. Strengthen your upper back, your shoulders and your biceps with this simple exercise: the 1-arm row. Do it with small hand weight. Or a heavy book.
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