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The History of TabataTabata training was discovered by Japanese scientist Dr. Izumi Tabata and a team of researchers from the National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Tokyo.Tabata and his team conducted research on two groups of athletes. The first group trained...

Americans generally believe that they need to “deserve” their vacations—that they should work hard, even push themselves, before they actually take a break. Consider these statistics:   • Although Americans have fewer vacation days than people...

It is the position of the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA) that massage therapy can improve health and wellness through its effects on the physical, mental and social well-being of an individual.According to the World Health Organization (WHO), "Health...

For this report, UCLA scientists recruited 35 adults ages 45 to 75 and had them detail their physical activity levels, as well as how many hours a day they sat in the previous week. Each study subject also had specialized brain scans zeroing in on a region of the...

It is important to educate both women and men on the importance of reading labels—not just food labels, but beauty and personal care product labels as well. Here’s why: An average woman uses 12 products with more than 168 chemicals in them every morning. Research...

This vegetable is actually loaded with significant amounts of vitamins (A, B, C, K), calcium, magnesium, and potassium. But if celery were to have an elevator pitch, the hook would be its phytonutrients. These chemicals are used by plants to keep insects and...

Are you new to yoga? A new survey conducted by Yoga Alliance and Yoga Journal reports that the number of Americans doing yoga has grown by over 50% in the last four years to more than 36 million as of 2016, up from 20.4 million in 2012. More than a third of...

Cardio. For some it's a dreaded word and for others it's a passion they can't get enough of. Either way you look at it though, cardiovascular exercise is one of the key components that should never be left out of a fitness plan.Cardio, short for cardiovascular...

     21st Century Fitness is the first evidence based anti-aging formula of exercise and nutrition in the U.S. specifically designed for staying young or returning to youth.  This formula, FOR ALL AGES, breaks the cycle of stagnant thinking that...

Wait, what exactly is a compound exercise?Compound exercises recruit multiple muscle groups while isolation exercises (like a bicep curl) concentrate on a single muscle group. There are benefits to both, but when it comes to doing more in less time, compound...