The long-standing assumption has been that masturbating impairs performance – but one study is here to challenge that ...

During the study, participants tracked and reported how much time they spent exercising each week. They categorized the ...

A recent study from Australia suggests that high intensity interval training may be optimal for body composition in older adults, by helping to lose fat while preserving muscle.

After adjusting for health and lifestyle variables, the authors found that those who engaged in the highest variety of exercises had a 19% lower risk of premature death than those who engaged in the ...

In a recent study, researchers found that adults who engaged in 12 months of regular exercise showed reduced brain-predicted ...

Is living in a leafy neighborhood enough to improve your mental health? Not necessarily. What matters most is frequent ...

The benefits of exercise are limited, disappear if discontinued, and should be an adjunct to talk or drug therapy.

Harvard scientists find that exercise variety is good but not too much and only certain types. Take the findings with a grain ...

Taking between 5,000 and 9,000 steps per day is associated with a lower risk of developing 13 different types of cancer, according to one study. The reduction in cancer risk was independent of ...

Another layer emerged when the team measured VO₂ peak, a standard assessment of aerobic fitness. Fitness level sometimes ...

A new study suggests that those with long-lived families probably have the best prospects of making it to a very old age.