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 ...

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 ...

You’ve got the new treadmill with all the bells and whistles in a spare room. There’s even a TV on the wall so you can watch the latest episode of Family Guy while you whittle away the pounds. But ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 people, the motivation to exercise fluctuates from week to week, and these fluctuations predict whether they will be physically active, according to researchers. In an effort to understand ...

In addition to its other potential health benefits, intermittent fasting may cause hormone changes that boost one's motivation to exercise. The findings were detailed in a study recently published in ...