Running, swimming, cycling and other aerobic exercises that move the body's largest muscles have long been considered the best activities to reduce blood pressure. But new evidence shows that simple ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Low-intensity or Zone 2 cardio has big benefits for fitness and health, a doctor said. Easy runs can help you improve your ...

On a fateful skiing trip this winter break, I tore my anterior cruciate ligament — more commonly known as the ACL — on a sharp turn and had to be transported down the slopes in a snowmobile. It wasn’t ...

"EXERT is a landmark study because it's the largest rigorous trial of exercise ever conducted in adults with mild cognitive impairment," Laura Baker, Ph.D., principal investigator of the EXERT study ...

Heart rate training has increasingly become a preferred method of monitoring – and managing – exercise intensity, particularly when running. It helps with everything from workout efficiency to ...

Low intensity heart exercising can help improve your endurance, though it may take longer to achieve your fitness goals than traditional high heart rate training. You may have read or heard that to ...

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a known risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia. Two new studies have found that low and moderate-high-intensity exercise was correlated with ...

When it comes to exercise, my aim is usually to get the most out of each workout, pushing myself to my max. No gain without pain, right? But maybe that isn’t always the case. In the past few years, ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego and Wake Forest University have found that both low and moderate-high intensity exercise could be valuable tools in the fight against Alzheimer's.