In today’s computer-reliant, technologically-driven world, you may find yourself seated at your desk, in front of your laptop for hours, making it hard to engage in any form of physical activity. Your body is adapted in such a way that if you do not exert it, it tends to become weak and sluggish. Hence, it […]

Life, they say, is a journey and in this journey you have just one vehicle and that is your body. A healthy body ensures that you enjoy the journey called life and are able to live each and every moment to the fullest. The two most important aspects of maintaining a healthy body are diet […]

Physical fitness means different things to different individuals. In general, it refers to the ability of the body to perform day to day activities with ease and still have enough reserves of energy to combat stress or emergency situations. Each of us has our own perceptions of what physical fitness actually means. Some people measure […]

Complete body fitness can be successfully achieved by incorporating a healthy blend of cardiovascular training and strength workouts in your daily regime. Cardio activity helps increase your lung capacity and stamina, while strength training boosts your metabolism that stabilizes your BMI to ideal levels so that you could attain a lean, muscular body. These workouts […]

Men and women have always, very controversially, been thought to be different. While differences in temperament may be vague and ill-defined, differences in fitness needs are well established. An outdoor fitness program will be very different for a woman from that which is designed for a man. What are a woman\’s fitness needs? An outdoor […]

Body building is the process of developing a proportioned and muscled physique mainly for aesthetic and competition purposes. Body building uses hypertrophy, which is basically enlargement of cell size, and reduction of fat tissue to achieve the same. In body building physical appearance is of key importance. Fitness is not much of a criterion. Strength […]

If you are a fitness enthusiast, you are probably involved in doing extensive workouts. You may be busy doing cardiovascular workouts and planning how to go about your resistance training. Both these forms of exercise are essential if you want to improve your health and maintain the right body composition. However, when you are planning […]

An outdoor fitness program must be carefully thought out before it is put into practice. Brain and brawn, despite popular belief, are not very different from each other. Brain comprises of muscles while brawn works at the commands of the brain. Therefore, it is a good idea to put some brain into your physical workout […]

Metastasis is the pathological process by which a disease, especially cancer, spreads from one organ of the body to the other. The word metastasis, having its origin from a Greek word, means ‘displacement’. In situ cancer cells, that is the cells at the original site, have the tendency to break away from the primary tumour, […]

Made by fermenting milk, yogurt is one of the commonly used milk products across the world. Known to be high in nutritional value, yogurt has also proven to help prevent many gastrointestinal related diseases. Yogurt may be made at home, or picked up at a supermarket close to you. Greek Yogurt is one of the […]