Fitness and Exercise - Exercise for Beginners

Firm Your Trouble Spots

Can you focus your workout right on your trouble areas? Yes and no.

Deal With Gym Intimidation

These 5 tips will take you from gym-phobic to gym-savvy.

How to Start Exercising When You re Seriously Out of Shape

Everyone at every stage benefits from exercise, but it can be intimidating and overwhelming to take the first step. First things first.

Know Thy Fit Self

The key to making an exercise program stick is to find the reason why you want to get fit.

Speed Walking: Take Your Walk to the Next Level

Walking is great exercise. Here's how to turn up the intensity to burn more calories with every step.

Is Muscle Weakness Causing Your Pain?

Even when pain feels like it's in your bones or joints, the root cause might be located in your muscles.

Minimalist Running Shoes: Best or Worst Choice?

"Barefoot" running shoes are gaining popularity. But do they benefit your body or cause more strain?

How Yoga Can Damage Your Body

While it's praised for its meditative approach to exercise, some experts are critical of the high incidence of injury.

Everyday Fitness

Follow these easy tips to make exercise part of your daily routine.

Get in Shape With the Latest in "Exergaming"

Get in shape, and have fun doing it, with video gaming systems that incorporate active fitness.

Time to Get Fit? Do This, Not That

Bump up your fitness level with these 10 simple adjustments to your daily habits.

How to Make Exercise Fun

When you consider all the different ways you can add exercise to your life, it's really not difficult to make exercise fun, easy, and motivating.

No Time to Exercise? Try This

If you can barely find the energy to get yourself and your kids out the door in the morning and you're too tired to do anything at all after work, you probably feel that you don't have even a sliver of time to devote to exercise. Here's how to fix that.

Jackie Warner: Exercise With The Skin You're In

QualityHealth sits down with fitness expert Jackie Warner to discuss her initiative to give people with psoriasis a renewed resolve to get fit and feel great in their skin.

Lose Weight and Reduce Pain: An Action Plan

Losing that excess weight and becoming active can reduce and even eliminate your pain. But how can you safely get started? Our plan will get you exercising at almost any weight and with nearly any condition.

8 Ways to Raise Your Heart Rate

When you strengthen your heart to function more efficiently, you increase the ability of your heart and respiratory system to deliver oxygen and nutrients to tissues and to remove wastes.

5 Inexpensive Workouts

Try these creative ways to exercise that are good for your body and easy on your wallet.

Teen in Need of Losing Weight? Get a Dog

A new study finds that teens with dogs log more exercise per week as compared to their canine-free counterparts.

Headaches During Exercise: Causes and Fixes

A lot of people think exercising is a headache, but for some people, it actually causes headaches. What causes exercise headaches and how can you stop them?

Get Heart-Healthy Without Joining a Gym

Who needs a treadmill? Here are 10 smart ways to build exercise into your day with no special equipment needed.

Secrets of the Superfit Elderly

No matter your age, you have peers out there who push fitness to a new level. Here are the secrets they already know.

A Double Dose Diabetes Workout

This exercise combo is proven to make the biggest positive impact on your blood sugar.

Had a Heart Attack? Activities to Avoid

Exercise is the best medicine for almost everything that ails you, but what should you know to make sure you don't push yourself too far if you have heart disease?

Unlikely Source for Senior Fitness

Here's a new idea that just might be the best way for aging people to get fit.

Winter Family Fitness

Here are 10-plus-one ways to keep your family moving when it's too cold to play outside.

5 Diet Busters

Trying to lose weight but can't? Well, before you place the blame on this or that, it may be time to take a good look at what you've been doing.

Is Your Workout Too Wimpy?

To find out if your workout is tough enough, ask yourself these five questions.

6 Truths About Exercise and Weight Loss

Many people are frustrated however; when after months of exercise classes, miles on the treadmill, and lifting the equivalent of the Empire State Building they still haven't lost an ounce. So, what's the truth about exercise and weight loss?

How a Fitness Role Model Can Help You

It's hard to reach your goals when you can't see them. That's where a fitness role model comes in.

How to Turn Your Walk into a Workout

What's the least expensive and most convenient way to get a total workout? Lace up your sneakers and walk out the door. Turning your walk into a workout is easy. Just follow these steps.