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A simple five-step wake-up routine — set intentions at night, move the alarm across the room, hydrate, and get dressed to move — that makes early mornings

Five health myths revisited with current evidence: exercise and the brain, the wine debate, how much exercise is enough, potatoes, and brown vs. white sugar.

Obesity is linked to poorer memory and cognition in animal studies — and chronic inflammation may be the bridge. What the research says about fat, the

A 2014 Garvan Institute study found shivering and moderate exercise both trigger irisin release, nudging white fat toward energy-burning brown fat.

Stability balls are great fitness tools — but used wrongly with heavy weights, they can explode. A trainer explains the Garcia injury and safe ball use.

From a fit-at-60 Pinky Roshan to a 72-year-old doing push-ups: age is just a number, and exercise works at every stage of life.

Celebrity trainer Bob Harper says it's all about diet: you can't out-train a bad diet. How the calorie deficit works — and why exercise still matters.

From clothing sizes to wages to workplace respect, plus-size women face bias everywhere — and exercise isn't the whole answer.

Every minute of exercise may buy you seven minutes of life. How little exercise is enough, and how do you turn it into a habit that actually sticks?

No time to exercise? A 15-minute home workout that mixes cardio and strength can build real fitness. Here's how the 5-4-3-2-1 plan works and why diet still

Slow metabolism or just slow habits? The honest, natural ways to nudge your metabolic rate — strength training, protein, sleep — without gimmicks.

A rodent study reported by the New York Times found that exercise blunted the memory-impairing effects of a high-fat diet. Here is what it did and did not show.

Women were told to fear the weight room. The men had it right all along: lift heavy, eat enough, rest — and stop doing endless cardio.

Ten fitness goals worth chasing — from a 5K to a two-minute plank to a sunrise yoga practice. A bucket list for women who want to feel strong.

A Journal of Labor Research study found regular exercisers earned about 9% more than non-exercisers — likely through energy, cognition, and productivity.

Research complicates the more-is-better view of exercise: excessive training carries real risks, scientists warned, though inactivity remains the bigger danger.

Skip the fad diets: the fundamentals of everyday nutrition — whole foods, hydration, protein, sleep — work for life and for training alike.

What celebrity fitness really involves: hours in the gym, personal trainers, yoga, and strict diets. The honest truth behind the perfect bodies on screen.

Dismissing walking as not exercise gets it backwards. Studies of millions of adults link regular brisk walking to sharply lower risks of death and disease.

Walking or cycling to work is linked to substantially lower obesity risk — because it's exercise built into a routine you already do every day.

Hit a fitness plateau? Progressive overload, cross-training, and real recovery — not more of the same — are what restart progress and redefine exercise.

Professor John Speakman's energy-expenditure research found we are not less active than in the 1980s — we just eat a third more. The fork beats the treadmill.

Fasted cardio burns more fat during the workout — but the long-term fat-loss advantage over fed exercise is far smaller than the myth suggests.

Don't bank calories, savor what's special, and build in movement: practical, non-guilt-laden guidance for navigating the season's abundance.

Should you stretch before exercise? What sports science actually says about static stretching, dynamic warm-ups, and when each one belongs.

Steady-state, intervals, or fartlek — three ways to do cardio for weight loss, and what each is actually good for. On picking the one you'll stick with.

Restarting exercise is harder than starting. On deconditioning, the step-down return, and why identity beats motivation for getting back on the bandwagon.

Longer, harder workouts don't automatically mean more fat loss. What exercise science actually says about intensity, cortisol, and the fat-burning zone.