Tag Archives: Strength training

Exercise as a powerful health drug

If you look at all the different ways you can work up a sweat, each of them falls into two categories.  The first, and most popular, is aerobic exercise, which gets your heart pumping and shoots oxygen out into the tissues of the rest of the body.  Strength training is the other less popular category, […]
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Exercise explained

Common exercise questions listed in Time magazine’s The New Science of Exercise (Sept 1/Sept. 19, 2016) by Mandy Oaklander: How much exercise?   The World Health Organization WHO, Center for Disease Control CDC, along with Prevention advise adults to get 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic activity each week along with 2x weekly muscle strengthening. What counts?  […]
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