Circuit Training Exercises: Excellent way to develop strength and endurance at the same time! Find sample exercises which can be built into a highly effective routine. These are high-intensity weight exercises to give you a Total Body Workout. Are you looking for an effective way to get your body into shape? Don’t have much time […]
Happy camper’s (trekkers’) health guide
For the trekking season, we got 3 mountain lovers to tell us how they coped with nagging health issues Last month, a day before Juhu resident Nihar Mehta set off on a 12-day Himalayan trek to Har Ki Dun, a valley in Sikkim, he went for a medical check-up as per mountaineering norms. The doctor […]
Strawberries for Good Health: Boosts Immunity
Top 10 health benefits (and nutrition facts) of Strawberries and why you must include them in your diet. Strawberries are to winters what mangoes are to summers. Loaded with antioxidants, the super-fruit helps in boosting immunity to improve your overall health. Here’s how are strawberries healthy for you: Its considered to be a superfood because […]
India’s Top Fitness Instagrammers that You Need to Follow Now
The top fitness guys and gals regularly share their successful mantras for health and fitness by sharing videos and photographs, along with how and when they do their exercise. They even profusely thank their trainers, and in turn, make celebrities out of them too. Well, if you are helping celebrities like Deepika Padukone stay in […]
Top Health Benefits Of Blueberries: Juicy Fruits Packed with Nutrition
Blueberries are small yet juicy fruits that, besides tasting good, offer several health benefits. If you’ve been ignoring them till now, start including them in your diet on a regular basis to lead a healthy life. Look for Blueberries that are smaller in size (these are the wild ones) compared to the bigger ones (these […]
Choose Wholegrain Over White bread for Weight Loss
The benefits of wholegrain bread (over white bread) are well known. However, many continue to eat white bread because they are accustomed to the taste. But if you still haven’t made the switch to wholegrain, you should read the several benefits of ditching the white bread and opting for the wholegrain instead. New studies are […]
Top (Surprising) Health Benefits of Pumpkin
Here are the top, and lesser known, health benefits of eating pumpkin (known as Kaddu in the hindi language). Pumpkin is one of the more commonly cooked vegetables in India, its another thing that most kids and youngsters make faces while eating it. But do you have any idea about the health benefits of pumpkin? […]
Science links brain disease to repeated head blows, an almost unavoidable part of contact sports
A degenerative brain disease (chronic traumatic encephalopathy – CTE) has been detected in the brains of nearly 200 football players after death, and the suspected cause is repeated head blows, an almost unavoidable part of contact sports. The disease was found in the brains of football players at the youth, college and professional level, all […]
High-performance facility for fitness-training and sports science in Bengaluru
The Abhinav Bindra Foundation Trust (ABFT) will establish and operate a high-performance rehabilitation, fitness and sports science facility in Bengaluru (Bangalore). A high-performance facility for rehabilitation, fitness-training and sports science (“Facility”) is being setup at Yelahanka in Bengaluru, at the Centre at the Padukone-Dravid Centre for Sports Excellence. Badminton great Prakash Padukone and Creicket legend […]
Cool Games to Say Fit & Lose Weight
Fitness games (Wii Fit Plus, Kinect Sports) for those who do not like to exercise. Not everybody loves to hit treadmills and elliptical machines at health clubs, nor is grunting and sweating away in boot camps lifting 25-pound kettle bell weights their thing. However, you still need to exercise to stay fit. Here are some […]