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.
While making small changes in one’s diet and activity levels can bring increased energy and lasting weight loss—fad or crash diets that promise unrealistic weight loss by restricting food, fat, or calories can be dangerous and short-lived. Here are 8 obvious signs that you’re in fad diet territory.
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Even though our minds are eager for the warm weather ahead, our bodies are oftentimes still weighed down by the sluggishness of winter. Luckily, these eight detoxifying yoga poses can cleanse the body—by stimulating the lymphatic, circulatory, and digestive systems—to help rid the body of the toxins and waste that accumulated over the long winter.
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When you think of the most intriguing Guinness World Record holders, the titles range from strange (the world’s tallest Mohawk, which at 44.68-inches belongs to Japan’s Kazuhiro Watanabe) to outright bizarre (like the adult German woman, Bettina Dorfmann, who owns 15,000 Barbie dolls). However, the fitness- and physical-oriented records are always my personal favorites. So […]
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We look into all the common myths and misconceptions about meditation.
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Recent research credits a regular yoga practice with more than blissful zen and a buff bod— but it turns out that getting downward dog also makes us better human beings! Here are eight ways that yoga makes us nicer, kinder, and more self-aware.
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