How to Stay Active and Healthy While Self-Isolating - Fitness Nation

How to Stay Active and Healthy While Self-Isolating

The world is currently facing an unprecedented crisis, as the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19, the novel coronavirus originating from Wuhan, China, a worldwide pandemic. This virus continues to threaten the lives of millions across the globe. WHO has confirmed over 600,000 cases. And the virus has taken the lives of over 30,000 people, as of March 30, 2020. …

March is National Nutrition Month - Fitness Nation

March is National Nutrition Month

Being healthy and in-shape is a goal for millions of people across the country. At the start of the new year, many people set New Year’s Resolutions for themselves with the hopes of improving their overall physique, health, and well-being. They set out to exercise more and lose weight. Physical fitness becomes a passion for many people. They set fitness …

Static Stretching vs. Dynamic Stretching - Fitness Nation

Static Stretching vs. Dynamic Stretching

One of the biggest mistakes people beginning their fitness journeys make is skipping warm-ups before a workout. While warm-ups don’t particularly seem like a major part of working out, they are vital to improving your performance, as well as keeping you safe from injury. The main goal of warm-ups is to get your body ready for physical activity. Regardless if …

Fun Couples Exercises for Valentine’s Day - Fitness Nation

Fun Couples Exercises for Valentine’s Day

As we move further along into 2020, we inch closer and closer to the extremely popular Valentine’s Day. This holiday is synonymous with romance and celebrating the love felt between two individuals. People give each other roses and chocolates, share glasses of wine or champagne, and eat extravagantly cooked meals. Love letters are shared, and gifts are given. It’s a …

Lifting Weights vs. Cardio - Fitness Nation

Lifting Weights vs. Cardio

As we are almost finished with the first month of 2020, many people are already in the middle of their New Year’s Resolutions. It’s well-know that the most common resolutions around the world are to exercise more and to lose weight. Often, these two go hand in hand. It’s hard to lose weight without exercising. And losing weight enables you …

Starting Your 2020 Fitness Journey - Fitness Nation

Starting Your 2020 Fitness Journey

At the beginning of every new year, millions of people see this time as a clean slate. A clean slate can be a state where you feel like starting over or turning over a new leaf. Clean slates are powerful foundations for people to build new habits. This makes perfect sense as millions of people across the globe create New …

Sticking to Your Fitness New Year’s Resolutions - Fitness Nation

Sticking to Your Fitness New Year’s Resolutions

As the year comes to a close, millions of people all across the country are preparing themselves for the start of a new year. As has been the case for years, Americans use the new year as an opportunity to start fresh. Millions of New Year’s Resolutions are set with the hopes of improving someone’s life. Arguably the most common …

How to Ease Your Gym Anxiety - Fitness Nation

How to Ease Your Gym Anxiety

Everyone Has Been Nervous in the Gym As the year comes to a close, more and more people will set New Year’s Resolutions for themselves. For many of them, this means making their personal fitness a priority. While your health should always be a priority, not as many people make it one. The start of a new year is the …

How to Stay Lean Over the Winter - Fitness Nation

How to Stay Lean Over the Winter

Winter Causes Our Bodies to Retain More Fat The holiday season is officially here, which means the days are much shorter and far colder. Thanksgiving and Christmas are two holidays that can wreak havoc on your dieting, as well. These are two days that put a heavy emphasis on eating lots of food. While this overindulgence is essentially a holiday …

Staying Healthy This Thanksgiving - Fitness Nation

Staying Healthy This Thanksgiving

The days have gotten shorter. The weather has gotten colder. We have officially entered the start of the holiday season. With Halloween already out of the way, the next holiday on the way is Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a time to get together with friends and family to indulge in delicious foods and drinks. It’s a time to share fun memories …

How to Break Through Your Fitness Plateau - Fitness Nation

How to Break Through Your Fitness Plateau

Though Frustrating, Fitness Plateaus Can Be Overcome We have all been there before. We are constantly in the gym, eating right, and lifting weights, crushing your healthy lifestyle. However, as time passes, you notice that you aren’t making the gains like you used to. The pace at which you lose weight has slowed down or halted completely. In some instances, …

The Importance of Breathing When Lifting Weights - Fitness Nation

The Importance of Breathing When Lifting Weights

The vast majority of people go to the gym to push themselves. Often, they have a fitness goal they wish to reach and are set on reaching it. When you’re in the gym lifting weights, there is so much to focus on. You want to make sure that you’re doing the correct lifts, lifting the appropriate weight, and keeping a …