Tai Chi is an ancient and amazing mind-body exercise and energy building practice. But you don’t have to do an entire Tai Chi session … doing only portions of it also bear excellent healthful fruit.

There are many benefits to the martial arts, especially the arts that focus on deep stances to train and strengthen the legs. Not only can stance training condition your legs, it also develops overall stamina, endurance, cardiovascular conditioning and spiritual fortitude.

Sit-ups have been the old standby of abdominal strength exercises for years, but the jury is still out on whether all those crunches are really giving you the body of your dreams. However, the classic exercise could set you up for serious injury…

Abdominal or “core” strength is essential to good posture, body coordination, and overall fitness. While you might be familiar with the standard “stomach crunch”— where the feet are flat, knees bent and head raises to contract the stomach muscles — you might not know that doing those isn’t enough.

Stress is a slow and silent killer. Pent up anger and frustration and anxiety wreak havoc on the body and mind, stealing joy and happiness from daily life and shortening life span. But a heart that exercises joy and love is a happy heart.

If the last time you ran a mile was in your high school gym class, it might be time to dust off your running shoes. But only if you’re interested in running away from one of the most deadly and widespread diseases of the modern age…

Can you imagine competing in track and field championships in your 80s and 90s? If you answered no, I’m here to tell you that people do it. You don’t have to — but you may want to share their strength and stamina…

Long hours of work, endless loops of mental clutter, sitting more than moving, and especially travel take their daily toll on our minds, bodies and energy systems. Today’s video will share with you powerful yet simple eight movement exercises to help rejuvenate the body.

Your body gets compressed all day between stress and poor posture — then again at night with repetitive sleeping positions. You end up with headaches, neck pain, back pain and more. But with just a few simple stretches, you can re-energize your body…

Most of what we do happens right in front of us and in a range of motion of about 60-degrees. The problem is, life goes on eventfully in the other 300 degrees.

Weekend warriors need to find time during the week to elevate their heart rate, work their cardio and move their muscles. This can help keep the body primed for more vigorous physical activity on the weekend — and help avoid injury.

They’re not a traditional “cardio” exercise… in fact, they may seem a little old fashioned. But if you want an intense upper-body workout that gives you real world strength using only your body weight, it’s hard to beat…