exercise
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How Can Jumping and Skipping Exercises Improve Your Strength and Fitness?
It’s recommended that people get 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity a week. But the part of this advice that people often ignore is that we should do muscle strengthening exercises twice a week. When we think of muscle strengthening exercises, we often imagine people lifting weights in the gym. But there are…
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5 Unexpected Health Benefits of Singing
Singing with others feels amazing. Group singing promotes social bonding and has been shown to raise oxytocin (the “bonding hormone”) and decrease cortisol (the “stress hormone”). But it’s not just about singing in groups. There are many unexpected ways singing is good for you, even if you’re on your own. Singing is a free and…
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These Exercises Will Help Reduce the Damage Living At Your Desk Does
If sitting at your desk for hours on end has your posture all kinds of messed up, here’s an exercise expert’s advice on what to do.
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Turns Out Standing on a Vibrating Platform Might Actually Work as Exercise
As we get older, many of us find we can’t walk or move the way we used to. While this can be partly explained as an inevitable symptom of ageing, a range of diseases – including Parkinson’s disease, sarcopenia and osteoporosis – can also make it more difficult for us to move. Rather paradoxically, people…