Your health should be one of your top priorities. After all, you only get one body, and it can only sustain so much. You need to stay active and eat a healthy diet to ensure your body receives the vitamins it needs. Everyone’s health is of utmost importance. When it comes to June, we take this time to recognize men’s …
Practicing Good Hygiene in the Gym
Millions of people across the country rely on the gym to keep them in shape. However, while at the gym, members are consistently sweating, leaving sweat on benches, the floor, weights, and more. Germs live on all surfaces throughout the gym. While everyone expects gyms to be full of sweaty people, this sweat often leads to the build-up of germs …
Everyday Activities to Help You Stay Healthy
People all across the world are always looking for a way to get active and stay healthy. People often work out at a gym to do so. However, gyms aren’t available all the time. At the time of this writing, the world is faced with a dangerous COVID-19 outbreak that threatens the lives of millions. To slow the spread of …
How to Know If You’re Overtraining
Many people make it their goal to exercise more throughout the year. Whatever their reasons may be, many people often struggle to feel motivated to workout. However, certain individuals have the exact opposite problem. They do not lack motivation and are committed to working out. However, while staying active is always a benefit, for both your physical and mental health, …
COVID-19’s Effect on Gyms
As many of our members are fully aware, Fitness Nation temporarily shut their doors due to the ongoing global pandemic that is plaguing not only our state and country but the entire world. After first emerging in a food market in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, in December 2019, a novel coronavirus, which is now officially being referred to as …
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 …