Monthly Archives: December 2017

Here’s how to be fit AND hip in 2018

Smartphone exercise apps and dance cardio are so last year. A worldwide survey states the top two fitness trends for 2018 are high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and group training. The survey‚ now in its 12th year‚ by ACSM’s Health & Fitness Journal‚ spans the globe and includes respondents from South Africa. Its editors note that […]

Women Are Naturally Fitter Than Men, Study Says

Conventional wisdom holds that men have the natural advantage when it comes to physical ability. But in one key measure of fitness, women actually come out on top, finds a small new study published in the journal Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism. Researchers from the University of Waterloo in Canada directed nine women and nine men—all 18-30 year […]