If you want to stay healthy and maintain a proper body weight, then your exercise routine is going to be a central part of that. The odds are that you know that and you may be trying very hard to keep up with an active lifestyle. However, exercising takes more than just knowing that you should do it. Your enthusiasm and motivation need to stay high or you won’t get yourself out the door anymore.

There are times when you can have been very successful with a certain exercise routine for quite a while, but when it suddenly seems to be failing you. Continue reading →

We all know that if you want to be able to lose weight, exercise is going to become a regular part of your life. However, what isn’t quite as obvious is how much exercise is necessary in order to be able to drop the pounds safely and in a healthy way, but still in a way that is appropriate for an individual’s own unique fitness level. But how much exercise do you need?

The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has recently updated its recommendations for healthy regular exercise and has said that its old guidelines – which had said that 30 minutes, five days per week – should no longer be considered to be accurate. So, the answer to the question, “How much exercise do you need?” has changed.  Continue reading →