Exercise for Life

Exercise can sometimes feel like a chore. Okay, for lots of us, exercise always feels like a chore.

Four exercises to try next time you’re paddleboarding in calm water.

I get asked what my training philosophy is on a regular basis. My usual response is, “Nothing gimmicky: ‘Don’t Do Anything Stupid.’” That pretty much sums up my approach to my own training and what I try to impart upon my athletes. … Each of these training rules is a direct result of my own stupidity and what I’ve learned from it. I’ve spent my fair share of time making the same mistakes that every runner makes, and I’m not done making mistakes. Hopefully by reading this, some of you out there can either validate what you’ve learned or avoid one of these pitfalls. No matter what, it should be a good reminder of how to train smart.

Use this simple checklist to feel great and see big-time results.

I fold fitness into my life, like blueberries into batter, and it becomes a part of the recipe, not just a topping.

Always be active. It’s not hard, if you do it in tiny bits. You can’t say no to 1 minute, or even just a few seconds. And if you do a thousand of them, you’ll be fit.

When you skip the weight room, you lose out on the ultimate flab melter. Those two sessions a week can reduce overall body fat by about 3 percentage points in just 10 weeks, even if you don't cut a single calorie. That translates to as much as three inches total off your waist and hips. Even better, all that new muscle pays off in a long-term boost to your metabolism, which helps keep your body lean and sculpted.

For more than a decade, neuroscientists and physiologists have been gathering evidence of the beneficial relationship between exercise and brainpower. But the newest findings make it clear that this isn’t just a relationship; it is the relationship. Using sophisticated technologies to examine the workings of individual neurons — and the makeup of brain matter itself — scientists in just the past few months have discovered that exercise appears to build a brain that resists physical shrinkage and enhance cognitive flexibility. Exercise, the latest neuroscience suggests, does more to bolster thinking than thinking does.

This workout, designed by Urban Jungle, a bootcamp program based in New York City, can be done anywhere -- at home, at the park or in a hotel room.

Just as a car can't run without an engine, your body can't run without a heart. And generally speaking, the bigger the engine, the more powerful the car. So upgrade your engine with these five heart-healthy exercises.

The Tibetan Sherpas in the Himalayas have long been admired for their exceptional abilities at high altitude. Their ability to generate high blood-oxygen levels at low-oxygen altitude has been developed over thousands of years and makes them some of the fittest people in the world.

A sports marketing executive, father of one, and fitness blogger provides unique and fun ways for parents to get fit with their kids that you probably never heard of like yurt camping, golf frisbee, ghost town tours, and geocaching all around town.