As a person ages, it is important to stay as physically active as possible. This helps maintain muscle mass and improve overall health. Certain exercises, such as walking, cycling, and yoga, are low ...

Getting back into fitness in your 40s and 50s is less about recreating the past and more about discovering a sustainable, ...

You’ve probably heard of high intensity interval training (a.k.a. HIIT), but have you heard of high impact training? Though they sound similar, these two types of exercise are a little different. Like ...

Doctors and fitness experts alike have been raving about the perks of strength-training at every age. But just because you can benefit from strength-training at 50 doesn't mean you should be doing it ...

High-intensity interval training (otherwise known as HIIT) may sound, well, intense. And it can be. But it can also be highly beneficial, including for women over 50. The training modality has other ...

A unique fitness initiative is helping older adults to stay active, improve their heart health, and build their strength from the comfort of a chair. The Salvation Army's weekly chair-based exercise ...

As many women of a certain age will tell you, menopause isn’t a cakewalk. This natural transition in a woman’s life, when the body no longer creates high levels of estrogen and progesterone hormones, ...

For most of his 81 years, Frank Vivona, of St. James, considered himself a full-blown couch potato. “I didn’t exercise and, in fact, I never liked exercise,” said the retired schoolteacher. But after ...