Did You Know?

Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Obese people spend $485 more on clothing, $828 on extra plane seats, and $36 more on gas each year than their thinner counterparts.

Eating fruits and vegetables may help the human body make its own aspirin.

A 60-minute nap can improve alertness for up to 10 hours. The most widely accepted record for going without a nap—or any sleep whatsoever—is 264 hours (11 days).

Using a food diary can double a person’s weight-loss efforts.

Regular exercise can lower a woman’s cancer risk—but only if she’s getting enough sleep.

Watching yourself run in a mirror can make a treadmill workout go by faster and feel easier.

Walking against the wind, in the water, or while wearing a backpack burns about 50 more calories per hour than walking with no resistance. People who wear pedometers also tend to burn more calories and lose more weight.

If you are not a regular exerciser, by the time you are 65 you may experience as much as an 80% decrease in your muscle strength.

 

Bodies are creatures of habit. The more you exercise, the more your body learns to burn fat rather than storing it.

 

The top three factors that determine whether or not you will stick to your exercise routine include having support, finding a workout that you like and knowing what you're doing. Your recipe for fitness success just may be working out with a buddy doing something you love after having received formal education on how to do it.

 

People who cross-train with a variety of exercise are more fit and less injury-prone than those who exercise using only one or two exercise modalities.

Muscle is 3x more efficient at burning calories than fat.

Did you know that for every 1 pound of muscle you gain, your body burns an extra 50 calories per day?

Exercise makes you feel more energized because it releases endorphins into the blood.

To address all the components of fitness, an exercise program needs to include aerobic exercise, which is continuous repetitive movement of large muscle groups that raises your heart rate; weight lifting or strength training; and flexibility exercises or stretching.

It takes about 12 weeks after starting an exercise program to see measurable changes in your body. However, before 12 weeks, you will notice an increase in your strength and endurance.