Helping your nervous system exhale is just as important as moving your body daily. These bed-friendly somatic moves get the ...

A study exploring the mechanisms behind why cognitive performance improves in response to exercise, has found that dopamine plays a key role. A study exploring the mechanisms behind why cognitive ...

It's been well known for many decades that exercise provides many benefits to our health. But a new scientific consortium is revealing new insights into just how profound exercise can be for the human ...

Your body changes during the menopause transition. So should your fitness routine. By Christine Yu When Alison Gittelman turned 49, she found that she couldn’t run as fast or as long as she had before ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. When it comes to staying active, the biggest challenge often ...

The benefits of exercise are so great that if it were a drug, it would be a miracle cure. But what is the optimal dose for better health: are people who run ultramarathons, lift weights every day or ...

Physical therapist and strength coach Susie Spirlock, DPT, played sports and exercised her whole life. “I placed a large part of my identity in what I could do in the gym,” she tells SELF. But after ...

Let’s start thinking differently about exercise. Here’s how we know. Animal exercise studies typically run rats for weeks on running wheels. The animals gleefully run every night, sprinting several ...

Exercise can’t cure Alzheimer’s, but it can slow its progression and improve your quality of life. And while there’s no definitive way to prevent Alzheimer’s, exercise may reduce your risk. Aerobic ...

This is part three of our four-part series of stories exploring stress, the nuances that come with the psychological and physiological response and its relationship with running. Read part four here.

Exercise has long been recognized by clinicians, scientists and public health officials as an important way to maintain health throughout a person’s lifespan. It improves overall fitness, helps build ...

Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Creative portrait of a woman lying in a blue suit on a pink sofa. Fashion concept. Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. If the benefits of physical activity were ...