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The Best Gear for a Portable Workout

If you are often using the excuse that you are simply too busy to workout, that excuse is about to end. The fact is, there are ...

How to Get More Steps in During the Day

Nowadays, it’s becoming easier and easier to track your fitness progress, whether it’s through an app on your phone or a tracker on your ...

How Trends Are Changing the Way We Eat Proteins

Protein is an essential macro nutrient that is the foundation of your cells, building blocks to your muscles and is needed by your tissues and organs. ...

The Pornstar Workout: 3 Pornstars Tell Us How They Stay Fit for the Camera

For most of us, we need a little extra motivation to get in shape. Beyond "it's good for you," things like school reunions, beachvacations,and weddings ...

How Fit Are You? Well, How Many Push-Ups Can You Do?

You've been lifting weights and maintaining a healthy diet for some time now. So, how can you determine your current level of physical fitness? One of ...

Are Your Workouts Hard Enough?

Everyone has their own wellness goals. And no matter your individual aim, whether you're training for competition or weight loss, it's important to gauge the difficulty ...

How to Find the Best Personal Trainer for You

Finding a good trainer is easy, but finding the BEST trainer will take a bit of work. It's all about finding a trainer that knows your ...

5 Exercises For Spring

Understanding how your body responds to exercise is like how it feels when you press on the gas pedal in your car and you get up ...

Weight Loss Plateaus: How to Get Over the Hump

You've put in the hard work. You've overhauled your diet. You've put in countless hours at the gym, sticking to those grueling workouts time and time ...

8 Quick and Effective Band Exercises

Many of us spend endless hours on a computer or stuck behind a desk each day, but our bodies are meant to move! Exercise bands (especially ...

Get Moving! 5 Ways to Work Your Core

Here are fives ways to help you develop the waist that you've been working towards. Once you've already begun to clean up your diet, your next ...

Real FitDay Users Share: What Was Your "A-Ha" Moment?

What sparked you to embark on your fitness journey? For many of us, it was one moment or incident - the "a-ha" moment - that got ...

What's Really In This: Yoplait Yogurt

Yogurt - a snack that is generally associated with health and quality nutrition, and in a lot of respects it is. Yogurt is a great natural ...

You Don't Have to Gain Weight This Holiday Season

The holiday season is slowly creeping upon us. With it brings happiness, gifts, cooler temperatures-- and lots of good tasting food. It is hard to resist ...

Everything in Moderation-- Truth or Fiction?

We've all heard the following phrases, "There are no good or bad foods" and "All foods are okay if you eat them in moderation." But could ...

Low Fitness Level? Try the Rockport Walk Test

Is your fitness level low? The Rockport Walk test was developed for those people who are unable to run a mile to discover their heart rate ...

Evaluating Fitness: The Bruce Protocol Treadmill Test

The Bruce Protocol Treadmill test is mainly used for evaluating cardiac fitness and function. This test was designed by Dr. Robert Bruce in 1963, and was initially ...

Testing Aerobic Fitness: The 20 Meter Beep Test

The 20 meter beep test is one of the most common tests used for measuring aerobic fitness. This maximal running aerobics fitness test is also known as ...

Testing Fitness with Walking: The Balke Treadmill Test

The Balke Treadmill Test is a cardiovascular fitness test that is mainly used by athletes. This fitness test was initially developed for clinical purposes for determining ...