Fit Facts: Exercise Programs

Fostering a Workplace Culture of Physical Activity

Whether you’re a small business owner, a corporate human resources manager, or a front-line supervisor, promoting physical activity on the job makes sense. More opportunities for physical activity at work leads to healthier employees, stronger job performance, and a boost to the business bottom line via decreased health care costs and improved productivity.   A Happier, Healthier Work
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Start a Workplace Walking Group

Would you be more likely to partake in a lunchtime walk if your co-workers joined in? Workplace walking groups tap into the power of social support to help employees get active and stay active. And they’re popping up at job sites everywhere.   Ask Around Conduct an informal survey of employees — find out just how many are interested, when they’re available to walk, for
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Time-Saving Tips for On-The-Job Fitness

A long commute doesn’t just eat up your time — it can also sap your energy and leave you wondering when you’ll ever be able to squeeze in a workout. Weaving physical activity into your daily work routine enables you to enjoy the health benefits of exercise while living in the real world.  Getting There Walking or bicycling to work is your best bet for workday fitness. St
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Travel Fitness: A Plan of Action to Keep You Active

It is easy to let a vacation or business trip destroy your fitness schedule and eating habits, but why let something as rewarding as a vacation or as exciting as a business trip leave you feeling unhealthy upon return? With a little research and proper planning, you can create an easy-to-follow plan to keep you fit and healthy no matter where you travel, and you can come home feeling more healthy
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Warm Up to Work Out

Suppose you were told that you only had to add an extra five to 10 minutes to each of your workouts to prevent injury and lessen fatigue. Would you do it? Most people would say yes. Then they might be surprised to learn that they already know about those few minutes, which are called a warm-up. If done correctly, a pre-exercise warm-up can have a multitude of beneficial effects on a person’
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Three Things Every Exercise Program Should Have

A complete, safe and effective fitness program must include aerobic exercise, muscular strength and endurance conditioning, and flexibility exercise. Aerobic exercise does good things for your cardiovascular system and is an important part of weight management. Muscular conditioning can improve strength and posture, reduce the risk of low-back injury and is an important component of a weight-mana
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Periodized Training and Why It Is Important

You have the best intentions regarding your workout, but find that your motivation has been sapped. Lately, no matter how hard or how often you work out, you just can’t seem to progress any further. You’re stuck on a plateau. It turns out that the exercise you’ve been doing has worked so well that your body has adapted to it. You need to “shock” or “surprise&r
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If You Don’t Use It, Will You Lose It?

If you’ve been sidelined by an injury, or you’re considering taking a break from exercise, you might wonder if you’ll lose your hard-earned strength and endurance. Some loss of fitness is inevitable, but there are ways to help minimize it. Here’s what happens to your body when you take a break from exercise. Matters of the Heart The degree to which cardiovascular fitnes
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Everything in Moderation

When it comes to exercise, we each determine what we can or cannot do, and how hard we push ourselves. Some follow the all-or-nothing principle, believing that if exercise is going to be good for you it has to be hard, even painful. This is a myth and far from the truth. In the 1990s, a shift occurred with exercise recommendations, as experts began to recognize the benefits of “moderate-inte
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Flexible Benefits

Most people take part in aerobic activity to improve their cardiovascular endurance and burn fat. People weight-train to maintain lean muscle tissue and build strength. Those are the two most important elements of a fitness program, right? Actually, there are three important elements. Regrettably, flexibility training is often neglected. Flexibility training: Allows greater freedom of movemen
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