Fitter – Health

The case for getting fitter — not slimmer: Why our obsession with weight could be a mistake

“There is a general consensus out there that a fat person is basically a premature death waiting to happen.” Dr. Glenn Gaesser is on the phone from Arizona State University in Phoenix, where the professor, exercise physiologist and author of Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight and Health is known for challenging the… Read More »

This 18-Minute HIIT Miracle Workout Will Help You Get You Fitter, Faster

The latest sweat science is dragging us to the age of high-intensity interval training, or HIIT. This involves bursts of intense exercise broken up by brief rest periods, and it improves everything from metabolism to cardiac endurance to brain health, says Mark Peterson, C.S.C.S., Ph.D., an assistant professor of physical medicine at the University of… Read More »