Educational Articles


Overall Fitness-Exercise
The Best Time to Exercise
Before You Start an Exercise Program
How to Stay Motivated
Women’s Strength Program
How Much Exercise for Weight Loss?
Warm Up to Work Out
Exercise Can Help Control Stress
Interval Training
Making Time for Exercise is Easy
A Walk a Day
The Best and Worst Abdominal Exercises
The Last 10 Pounds

Older-Geriatric Population
Active Seniors Enjoy Life More
Strength Training Update
Fit at Fifty and Beyond
Fitness, Fun, and Friends
Walk Your Way to Fitness
Standing Strong
Function Follows Fitness
Improving Functional Abilities in Older Adults
Exercise Progressions for Seniors

Children’s Fitness
Childhood Obesity: Prevalence, Treatment and Prevention
What is the Youngest Age You’d Train a Child or Teen? Why
Helping Children Exercise
Kids in Motion
Strength Training for Kids – A Guide for Parents and Teachers
Children and Running

Population
Exercise and Type I Diabetes
Exercise and Type II Diabetes
Managing Cholesterol with Exercise
Exercising with Heart Disease
Exercise and Hypertension
Starting a Stroke Recovery Fitness Program
Exercise Helps Battle Effects of Cancer Treatments

General Nutrition
Breaking the Diet Cycle
Don’t Skip Breakfast to Cut Calories
Refueling after Exercise
Helping Kids Eating Healthfully
What’s the Matter with Kids’ Diet Today?
Healthy Hydration
Soft Drinks: Bad to the Bone?

Athlete’s Performance
Supplements Too Much of a Good Thing
The Truth about Steroids
Should you Take Creatine?
Creatine Creates a Sensation
Improving Sports Performance
Protein Nutrition and Endurance Exercise: What Does Science Say?
Sports Conditioning and Fatigue
Caffeine and Endurance Exercise Performance

Injury Prevention
Can Exercise Heal Low Back Pain?
Low-Back Stability Training
Alcohol Effects on Health Performance
Enhancing Low-Back Health through Stabilization Exercise
Preventing and Correcting Excessive Lumbar Lordosis
The Dynamic Warm-Up

Weight Control
Successful weight control
Weight Loss Plateaus and Pitfalls
Dietary Protein and Weight Loss
So, You Want to Spot Reduce? Here’s How