Feeling healthy, vital and energised comprise for us of 3 things: Indoor excercises that are brief with high impact (HIIT) or ones that are outdoor and sheer fun Nutrition that’s both healthy and delicious, opposed to diets with lots of contstraints (we hate diets basically, do you too...

When it comes to calorie burning during exercise, research shows that HIIT training (short, high-intensity interval workouts) burn more calories than longer, lower intensity aerobic workouts. According to the American College of Sports Medicine, not only are more calories burned in short,...

Fire up your engine and burn that excess weight once and for all with 5 metabolism boosters Drink More Water  When researchers measured people’s metabolic rate before and after downing about 16 ounces of water, they found a rise in calorie-burning capability. The water had a lasting...

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Western-trained internist and Yoga Journal medical editor McCall has practiced Iyengar yoga for a decade. In 2002, he traveled to India, where most scientific research on yoga’s medical benefits has been conducted. The results of that visit and...

Heart changes during yoga session consistent with isometric exercises.   Given yoga’s mix of strengthening, flexibility, movement, and breathing exercises, you’d be right to think it affects many of the body’s systems. In terms of cardiac effects, a single yoga...

What is it? A portable suspension trainer, loved by US military types and personal trainers, that tightens the core more far effectively than the bog-standard elbow-to-knee crunch. It also improves functional strength, balance and flexibility. Suspension trainers have been knocking around the...