A recent study suggests that resistance training improves exercise motivation and contributes to making exercise planning among older adults. Exercise motivation and exercise self-efficacy are key ...

Eating a healthy diet and being active are essential elements of any weight loss or weight maintenance program. The science is pretty straightforward: when we burn more calories than we eat, we lose ...

Q. Will a fitness tracker help me get more exercise? A. Maybe. Snapping a trendy tracker on your wrist that monitors your steps taken and calories burned may help with exercise motivation because it ...

Carol Maher receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council and the National Heart Foundation. Tim Olds receives funding from the ARC and the NHMRC. This article is part of our ...

For many, finding the motivation to start and sustain an exercise regimen is like the search for the holy grail. Despite countless attempts to find their way to regular physical activity, Americans ...

Motivation is different for every person. Finding what motivates you is the key to creating habits, especially in exercise routines. With a consistent exercise routine, the results can be very ...

TEL AVIV — Vanity trumps health when it comes to why people start exercising. This surprising finding emerged when Tel Aviv University researchers took an unconventional approach to studying fitness ...

(HealthDay News) — For breast and colorectal cancer survivors, the level of exercise participation is significantly increased for those receiving an oncologist’s exercise recommendations with an ...

You know exercise is good for you, but your brain still resists it like it’s punishment rather than reward. The problem isn’t willpower or discipline – it’s that your neural pathways haven’t learned ...

A new study published in the journal Mental Health and Physical Activity has shown that a combination of step tracking and mindfulness training could improve motivation to exercise. The randomized ...