Staying active will help you look and feel better. Here you’ll find the latest news on fitness trends, exercise and sports along with professional advice and tips from Activebeat’s own set of fitness experts.
Do you exercise mindfully? By that I mean tuning into the thoughts going through your head, and how the exercise physical makes you feels? The following infographic from MyFitnessBoutique.co.uk shows that when we exercise mindfully, we end up getting a lot more mind and body benefits out of physical activity versus if we just performed the exercise absentmindedly. Being mindful […]
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The advantages of fitness trackers seem clear: they help you monitor the number of steps you take and, in some cases, can help track heartbeat, distance run, even the amount of quality sleep you get. But there are some significant drawbacks to wearing a fitness tracker and you should be aware of these issues.
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By now, we all understand that regular physical activity has some pretty profound effects on our bodies. However, the positives don’t stop there. It never ceases to amaze me how far a mere 30-minutes of exercise can go—particularly when it comes to the brain.
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There are lots of other activities aside from running that incorporate cardio benefits, but you might not even notice that you’re breaking a sweat with some of these activities because they’re also entertaining. Let’s take a look at eight fun alternatives to traditional exercise choices.
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Fitness trackers can measure our every step, so that must be a good thing when it comes to reaching health goals, right? Not necessarily. New studies have shown that fitness trackers can actually make us take a step backwards when it comes to setting targets and reaching them. There have been questions raised about the […]
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