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Dehydration is a serious health risk during exercise, particularly when working out for long periods of time, in conditions of high heat or high humidity. During physical activity, the body cools itself and regulates your temperature through sweating, resulting in fluids being directed toward the skin and away from vital functions. Sweat on the...

We all know people (and maybe we are those people) who make a fitness plan every summer, every New Year, or every birthday. But, statistically, 90% of those people do not maintain their fitness plan for longer than 3 months. If the goal is to look a little bit better on the beach for spring vacation, that might be adequate; but if the goal is to...

The core muscles are the muscles in the torso and trunk of the body. Not only the major muscles of the abdomen in the front, and the spinal erectors in the back, but also the smaller, stabilizing muscles, including the obliques, the lateral muscles in the back, and the trapezius. Working together, this group of muscles surrounds, stabilizes, and...

Strenuous exercise raises your core body temperature, and activates the natural cooling system. While there are many processes involved in regulating the body temperature, to put it simply: the body begins to sweat, and the process of sweat evaporating off the skin lowers the skin temperature. This lowered skin temperature cools the blood as it...