Pratik Thakkar specializes in fitness, providing tips on exercise routines, nutrition, and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. After an injury, two things happen almost definitely. One is that you cannot ...

Incorporating regular weight training into your running schedule is key if your goal is optimal performance and reduced risk of injury. Moreover, strength workouts can help refine your mechanics and ...

This piece is part of Franciscan Health and Fitness Center newest line of strength equipment out on the fitness floor. Ask staff for specific location. • Sit on seat and select proper weight for your ...

When you’re using machines, you also reduce the recruitment of the surrounding stabilizing muscles. Take bench presses: With ...

When you work out at the gym, you usually have the choice between free weights or machines for strength training. Machines use cables and stacks of weight to provide resistance. These provide some ...

Your feet stay planted on the two footholds. Instead of an impact when your foot hits the ground with walking or running, you complete more of a gliding motion. Some ellipticals have hand bars. Moving ...

There are stretches for flexibility and then there are their lesser-discussed counterparts: mobility exercises. Just like we need our joints and muscles to be loose and pain-free for good-quality ...