Professional female athletes and ballerinas suffer from serious health issues four times more often than average women do. What is the reason behind this and how can they avoid it? Full story

A pair of comfortable sports shoes is a must to have if you lead an active lifestyle and exercise. So you have to think twice before making your purchasing decision. How not to get lost in a sports store and choose the right pair suitable for the type of sports activity you are engaged in? Full story

Being more physically active means protecting your brain and improve your memory, according to scientists at Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. In their opinion, physical activity stimulates the formation of special agents in the brain which, in their turn, encourage quicker maturation of stem calls into neurons. During the experiment the scientists used running wheel for a group of mice. The mice from the control group were only eating and sleeping. Full story

An interesting fact was recently discovered, which showed that listening to music during a heavy training can increase endurance of your body by 15% and, in addition, it helps enjoy the sport much more. It works even when a person trains on strength training equipment at a very high intensity level. A 20 year study which examined connection between music motivation in sport and work helped establish this fact. The study showed that it is much easier to work out when your favourite tune is on. Full story

Sidney saw another high heel race with the record number of runners – 265 women. Wearing three-inch high heels, ladies competed on a 80 meter race track. Australian Britney McGlone who is a professional 400 meters hurdle runner finished first to take home AUD 5000 prize fund (USD 4267). Full story

As we all know, prevention is the best treatment. This is why it’s possible to struggle against Alzheimer’s disease, moreover, every single person needs to do it. But this should be done ahead of time – in the middle age. Medics claim, the best prevention of Alzheimer’s disease is regular physical exercises. This has been found due to a recently conducted study. Full story

Sneakers were used to be worn only together with a training suit and only for sports before, but now comfortable, stylish and nice sneakers have become a daily accessory of lots of women. At first glance, there’s nothing bad in it, this is due to some fashion trends or to the desire of women for comfort. But in reality sneakers are fraught with some threat to those, who wear them. Full story

A new disease has been found by English scientists. It’s called athletic neurosis. One suffering from athletic neurosis is obsessed about permanently improving their own body. According to the scientists, such a comorbid aspiration for the ideal is due to glossy magazines demonstrating fit and brawny men and women. As a result there are more and more people finding their own bodies imperfect. Such people finding themselves ugly or unattractive spend hours at gyms trying to achieve the ideal body, but they never become how they want to be. Full story

Lots of women having varicose veins on their legs are afraid of exercising, because they believe, that physical exercises could make the problem worse. Exercises actually improve the blood circulation through your legs. Any exercises involving legs are good to prevent spider veins, the best and most efficient is exercising the lower calf muscles. Swimming, walking, bicycling, jogging, aerobics, step aerobics – if you do something from the list regularly, this is already varicose veins prevention. If you already have varicose veins, moderate leg exercises help relieve varicose veins and reduce the aching associated with them. The following exercises improve your leg strength and muscle tone, help promote circulation and, thus, help prevent and relieve varicose veins. Full story

How often do you stand up, after you have been sitting for a long time, and feel low-back pain? Do you sometimes lay on your bed not because you are tired and cannot work anymore, but because of backache? Have you ever been unable to move, because the pain in the middle of the back or lower down was acute? About 80% of adult Americans suffer from chronic or Full story

It was created by NASA a few years ago and served as a trainer for astronauts in space. Now it is the reason of the new world competition, a good gift idea and a great fun maker. Once you try it, you will never want to stop, it becomes a kind of drug (since I brought this miracle home, there has not been a day, when my boyfriend did not murmured with it). But fortunately this addiction is totally healthy: it strengths the fingers, hands, wrists, arms and shoulders. As a pianist, and a badminton player, I find it a perfect trainer. Full story

Do only those having a fat belly can dance belly dance? No, thin women can do it too, even men can. Though belly dance originated in Arabian countries where women have limited rights, have to hide their sexuality, cover their bodies and in some countries - even faces, so that nobody sees their beauty except for their husbands, it IS extremely sexy and fascinating. Below the article you will find a video showing how sexy belly dance is. Full story

Many know badminton as a beach entertaining sport. But real badminton is a serious Olympic sport requiring much tension, agility, good reaction, staying power, perfect coordination. The flight of the shuttlecock (a missile of cork and goose feather that players volley across the net) has been recorded at speeds of 332 kilometers per hour. Badminton is the world’s fastest racket sport. The speed of therally during a professional game reaches 0,7 hits per second. Badminton is included to the astronaut training program. One can spend hours playing this game and not noticing the time – this is how one can fall in badminton. Full story

Everybody knows that jogging is healthy. It provides body weight loss and fat burning, makes your body stronger and enduring, your figure well-set-up and slim, increases muscle bulk and doesn’t let cholesterin deposit on vascular walls. But unfortunately it’s not always fun, because systematical repetition of the same sport activity can bore one. Boredom brings laziness and you train less. Here are some recommendations to make jogging more exciting. Full story

Everyone has ever met this problem. You do understand that sport is very important, you do want to look fit and beautiful, but you do not go in for sport, just because you don’t have enough will-power. At times you get this energy which gives you the force to make exercises. You wake up earlier for jogging. Once. You feel pleased you did this, you feel every muscle of your body. The next day you have such a strong myalgia that there’s no will to do it again. Surely you may even do it the whole week every day, but there will come the day when you stop. Why? Because you don’t like it. Full story