If you've been to an aerobics step class you will be familiar with the low platforms that are used in the general step workouts.

When you're starting out, it pays to know the basic terminology of weight training so that you can interpret what you read on About.com Weight Training and the many other ... Read More

About.com Guides produce a variety of newsletter ecourses -- a series of regular, progressive articles on a variety of subjects in wellness, sports and fitness sent to your email box. ... Read More

Dumbbells are very flexible pieces of weight training equipment. You can do a host of different exercises with them; they're compact and easy to store; they suit learners because they're ... Read More

This exercise is from the Exercise Guide, Paige Waehner. It's another great exercise to add to your repertoire for times when you want variety. It's a little more complex than ... Read More

Drop sets are weight training sets in which the weight is decreased in each subsequent set in a group of sets. The first set should be with a weight that ... Read More

Weight loss and fat loss books are everywhere, but very few tackle the obesity epidemic, some would say pandemic, from a causal perspective -- that is, looking at the sociological, ... Read More

To follow up a previous blog piece on what to consider when evaluating dietary and nutritional supplements, here is a study from 2008 that showed just what the problems can ... Read More