Fitness Journal

The Benefits of Using a Weighted Vest for Women: Bone Health, Fat Loss, Posture & More

The Benefits of Using a Weighted Vest for Women: Bone Health, Fat Loss, Posture & More

Exercise is among the most appropriate decisions you can make for your health. But there are moments you need that little bit more of a challenge to get some actual results. A Weighted Vest For Women is where a one-piece...

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How to Choose the Right Women’s Weighted Vest for Walking: Fit, Comfort, and Weight

How to Choose the Right Women’s Weighted Vest for Walking: Fit, Comfort, and Weight

When paired with a weighted vest, walking — one of the most basic yet effective types of exercise — becomes an even more potent weapon for enhancing strength, burning more calories, and improving endurance. Choosing the appropriate vest is crucial...

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Can Running with a Weighted Vest Improve Your Performance?

Can Running with a Weighted Vest Improve Your Performance?

Runner's World has long been a staple of information and guidance on running and walking. This article covers some of the basics of working out with weighted apparel. Amy Schlinger When the coronavirus outbreak forced gyms and fitness studios to...

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Vitality Isn't Just Fitness

Vitality Isn't Just Fitness

Increasing our fitness level is only one component of overall well being.

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Life After Covid

Life After Covid

Leadership is a function of behavior and behavior can be modified. Don’t let this crazy time dictate who you want to be and how you’re going to proceed.

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Start Taking Advantage of the Power of Incremental Progress

Start Taking Advantage of the Power of Incremental Progress

When it comes to getting in better shape, small steps are the name of the game. Trying to change almost anything overnight can result in disappointment. Steve Jobs once said, "I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've...

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Are you Fit to Survive or Fit to be Tied

Are you Fit to Survive or Fit to be Tied

Are you mentally, nutritionally, physically, financially, and environmentally fit to survive?

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Take Charge of Your Body and Your Future

Take Charge of Your Body and Your Future

With all the responsibilities of adult life, it's the easiest thing in the world to just go with the flow and settle for mediocrity or half-hearted acceptance in an area of our lives that couldn't be more important: our fitness....

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Gym Etiquette Don'ts

Gym Etiquette Don'ts

Some great tips we found in an article from editor Nicole Dossantos of The Active Times entitled “16 Things You Should Never Do at the Gym” (March 2017). We didn’t include all 16, but you’ll find plenty of food for thought.

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Shaping Reality Means Shaping Self-Perception

Shaping Reality Means Shaping Self-Perception

Author, consultant, runner and coach, Brian Sabin wrote an excellent article for Under Armour's MyFitnessPal blog 9/17. We all know that getting started with any plan of action is perhaps the biggest obstacle. One of the main points of his...

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Challenge Yourself to Get Off Your Workout Plateau

Challenge Yourself to Get Off Your Workout Plateau

Vary your routine and move off that workout plateau.

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Increasing Your Intensity Level Is One of the Keys to Increasing Results

Increasing Your Intensity Level Is One of the Keys to Increasing Results

In the Fitness section of the Daily Burn (4/18/17), we found an excellent article called Design Your Own HIIT Workout with This Perfect Formula by Mallory Creveling. In it, she says, "Science and experts alike say high intensity interval workouts...

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