Fitness & Health Articles

The Fitness & Health category provides aggregated articles from Coach Rich Dafter to help you not simply to live longer, but to stay stronger, more capable, and energized for the years ahead.

Continue to enhance your knowledge about fitness and health with the strategies that Coach Rich Dafter personally uses and researches while continuing to train, run, hike, walk, and stay active after 43 years of coaching. Go to the Fitness & Health category on my Coach Blog for more articles.

Fitness

• Unsupportive Partners: 7 Ways to Placate Your Mate
• The Parent Trap: Fitting in Time for Fitness
• Stay Fit This Holiday Season
• Test Your Military Fitness Knowledge With These Military Fitness Standards
• 5 Tips to Get Fit at Home
• Five Minute Morning Workout Routine
• How Often Should You Change Your Workout?
• Drills For The Core And Extremities
• Women's Fitness Needs, Milestone By Milestone
• Aquatic Exercise Heart Rate Zones - Heart Rate Monitors Make a Splash
• Aquatic Exercise Class - Heart Rate Monitors Make a Splash
• Training Tips for Adventure Racing
• 6 Reasons to Cross Train
• Sugary Drinks: You Are What You Drink
• Fitness Tips: 10 Fitness Facts That in Reality are Fitness Myths
• Workout Tips: How to Make Working Out and Fitness Fun
• Workout Tips: Tony Horton's 11 Laws for a Lifetime of Fitness
• Health Fitness: Health and Fitness Is Not Just A 12 Week Fitness Program
• Fitness Tips: 5 More Fitness Myths and the Fitness Facts Behind Them
• Physical Fitness: 50 Secrets Of The Fittest Fitness Tips
• Workout Routine: 20 Minute Age Eraser
• Beginner's Guide To Fitness
• Exercise Fitness: What Are the Specific Benefits of Exercise
• Home Exercise: What Are the Benefits Of Home Exercise
• Thai Boxing: 4 Steps To A Body Of Steel With Thai Boxing
• Body Statistics: Fitness by the Numbers
• Body Weight: Energy Zen Body Weight Solution
• Working Out: Boot Camp Workouts
• Healthy Weight Loss: It's Easy To Burn Calories All Day
• Home Exercise: How to Buy a Piece of Exercise Equipment
• How To Choose A Health Club
• Four Must Ask Questions When Choosing A New Fitness Activity
• Exercisers Most Common Fitness Myths
• Exercise Consistency For Lifetime Fitness
• Definition Of Physical Activity
• Double Your Exercise Time U.S. Health Panel Says
• The Aerobic Exercise Effort Equation
• Elliptical Trainers Are More Than a Craze
• Tips For Exercise After Pregnancy
• Staying in Shape During and After Pregnancy
• You've Got to Step Up Your Exercise Intensity and Time to Stay Slim and Healthy
• The 9 Attitudes & Mental States of Ferocious, Eye of the Tiger Motivation
• Exercise Options To Work Out At Home
• Family Fun Fitness
• Fit Or Fat - Fit Beats Thin, in a Heartbeat
• Building Your Endurance Base As A Foundation For Fitness
• How Fitness Goals And Methods Change as People Age
• 7 Tips When Creating a Home Gym
• Fitness On The Road - Tips for Frequent Flyers
• Fitness Pro Workout For Weight Loss
• Fitness Programs For New Moms
• Avoid 5 Reasons Fitness Plans Fail
• Physical Fitness: Glossary of Fitness Terms
• Lunch on the Run - Fitting a Workout Into Your Workday
• 5 Tips to Get Fit at Home
• Morning Workout Routine: Good Day Sunshine Workout Routine
• Kick-Start Your Marriage with Fitness
• As In Running, So In Life: Lessons From the Road to Fitness
• Look Great At Any Age
• Diet and Exercise Can Spare You the Midlife Spread
• In Shape In 8 Minutes: Jorge Cruise
• Climb to Health With Stair Climbing
• President's Plea For Better Fitness
• Exercise and Sex
• The Shape of Your Life - A New Strategy
• Time To Start a Fitness and Self Improvement Program
• Start It Up - The Shape of Your Life
• Six Great Ways to Stay Fit While on Vacation
• Staying Fit While On The Road
• Fitness Tips: Seven Ways to Stay on Track and Fit Workouts into Your Busy Schedule
• Top 10 Fitness Tips
• Train For Soccer Endurance to Give Your Team the Edge
• Weekend Warrior: Sports Injuries Are Weekend Warrior Woes
• What is Fitness and Why is Aerobic Fitness So Important
• Working Out in Moderation
• Ten Ways to Accessorize Your Workout
• Workout Timing: When to Train
• Five Great Workout Tips For Women

Health and Wellness Resources

• Old Fashioned Cold Remedies
• Boost Your Metabolism All Day Long
• The 10 Commitments of Healthy Living
• Test Your Brain Facts IQ!
• Your Brain and Exercise
• Is Beer the Healthiest Alcohol
• 10 Ways to Put Your Appetite on Cruise Control
• Achilles Tendonitis
• Exercisers Should Acclimatize to Avoid Exertional Heat Illness
• 12 Ways to Go Green
• 10 Reasons to Fast
• Seasonal Affective Disorder: Are You Feeling the Wintertime Blues - Ten Easy Steps to Turn Them Around
• Stress Reduction: The 15 Minute Stress Reliever Routine
• Eating Disorders: Athletes' Hunger to Win Fuels Eating Disorders
• Childhood Obesity: Weight Needs to be Tackled Early to Avoid Lifelong Child Obesity
• Good Nights Sleep: 10 Tips For Better Sleep
• Free BMI Calculator: How To Determine Your Body Mass Index
• Food Poisoning: 10 Foods That Kill
• New Study Shows How Exercise Lowers Cholesterol Risk
• 6 Ways To Avoid Colds and Flus Over The Holidays
• Coping With Menopause Naturally
• Cost Of Obesity In The U.S.
• 7 Tips on Dealing with Exercise Induced Pain
• Exercise Can Cut Breast Cancer Risk in Women
• Dangerous Supplements
• Tips on Dealing with Arthritis
• Recognizing and Dealing With Fatigue
• Diabetes and Its Awful Toll Quietly Emerge as a Crisis
• Heading For An Early Grave? Test Reveals Your Fate