Exercise

Include Stretching into your Fitness Training Routine

Are you stretching regularly as part of your fitness training? Stretching is just as important as exercising and shares many of the same benefits as fitness training. Stretching may increase your joint range of motion, which may improve your athletic performance and also decrease your risk of injury. Other benefits include better posture, fewer aches …

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Senior Fitness Training Makes Staying Healthy Possible at Any Age

As we age, we naturally lose muscle mass faster while our bone density and flexibility begin to decrease. However, many of the symptoms of age that people experience are actually side effects of a sedentary lifestyle. The members of the senior fitness classes from Mile High Fitness in Denver, CO, know the importance of maintaining physical …

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Physical activity linked to greater mental flexibility in older adults

One day soon, doctors may determine how physically active you are simply by imaging your brain. Physically fit people tend to have larger brain volumes and more intact white matter than their less-fit peers. Now a new study reveals that older adults who regularly engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity have more variable brain …

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Use Your Smartphone to Take Your Fitness to the Next Level

Want to lose weight? Monitor your heart rate? Count the number of your steps you walk? Your smartphone helps you do all of these things. With various apps and advances, smartphones remove the guesswork and create fitness tools to help you take your health seriously. Over half of adult smartphone owners use them for medical …

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