If only keeping up with your workout schedule was as exciting as keeping up with the latest episode of MAFS. According to Nuffield Health’s Healthier Nation Index, psyching yourself up to exercise is ...

Are you becoming increasingly concerned or obsessed with looking good? Do you exercise to enhance your appearance or do you exercise for sheer enjoyment? Are you influenced by the media, which often ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. When it comes to staying active, the biggest challenge often isn’t the workout ...

The mind is a powerful tool we can utilize to jumpstart a new physical activity journey or any new healthy habit. Everyone has days where they struggle to find the motivation to be active and exercise ...

Experts say that strength and energy changes often start earlier for women—especially around menopause—and that targeted ...

Female subjects are excluded from over 90% of studies on exercise performance and fatigability because hormonal changes during the menstrual cycle are thought to affect exercise capability. Peruse any ...

How a seemingly healthy habit can be damaging. — -- Since she was in elementary school, Katherine Schreiber, 28, remembers struggling with body issues. Sometimes these feelings were so severe she ...

If you’ve ever wondered what really gets you moving toward a goal or building a fitness habit, it’s not just one thing. Sure, you might love what you’re doing or crave that feeling of accomplishment, ...

There’s a vision of fitness motivation that many find compelling: You pick yourself up by your own bootstraps and hustle. You just have to want it badly enough. And if you don’t … well, that’s your ...

There is little doubt that many of our physiological systems decline with age. We get more aches and pains, we may need glasses to read, and we forget more things. (Where did I leave my glasses anyway ...