As a lifelong health and fitness enthusiast with 15 years of experience, Rachel MacPherson is passionate about cutting through fads and noise. Her aim is to clearly communicate health information with ...

High-intensity interval training is important, but coming back to your breath can be crucial to helping you train.

“VO2 max is the best measure of cardiorespiratory fitness,” says Andrew Getzin, MD, head team physician of USA Triathlon and sports medicine physician at Cayuga Health in Ithaca, New York. “To have a ...

Understanding our body’s target heart rate zones and how they change as we age is crucial for getting the most out of our workouts. If your goal is to burn fat, for example, you’ll want to stay in ...

Calculate your target heart rate zone and work to stay in the middle of that zone while you’re doing your cardio. Here’s how you do it: According to the American Heart Association, a person’s target ...

Choosing your pace based on the physiological transition from easy to hard is more effective than calculations based on ...

Your heart rate can tell you a lot about your fitness and cardiovascular health. Your heart beats consistently, day in and day out, but you may not generally pay close attention to it. You might take ...

Any form of cardio, like running, raises your heart rate. But how high is too high? If you look at your heart rate monitor and notice your bpm (beats per minute) has climbed to, say, 170, you should ...