One of the best ways to motivate yourself to be active is to focus on how exercise makes you feel better immediately. In this article, I'll outline all the amazing ways that exercise can improve your ...

Here's what you can do now to protect your brain in your 40s, 50s, and beyond.

A sweeping review of global research suggests that exercise—especially aerobic activities like running, swimming, and dancing—can be one of the most powerful ways to ease depression and anxiety.

Ever blurt something out and instantly wish you could take it back? That kind of impulsivity is totally normal—but it’s also something you can train. New research in Medicine & Science in Sports & ...

An exercise science degree can lead to careers in healthcare, fitness, public health, and human performance. At Willamette, you'll study how the body moves, how people stay healthy, and how to turn ...

A study finds that people who did one specific form of brain training in the 1990s were less likely to be diagnosed with dementia over the next 20 years.

Adults who did regular aerobic exercise for a year had brains that appeared about one year younger on MRI scans than people ...

People often complain—and rightly so—that the typical exercise science study involves a half-dozen male undergraduates who follow some sort of workout routine for a couple of weeks. So you can imagine ...

A series of recent studies has pinpointed the specific molecules and biological pathways through which physical activity protects the brain from aging, disease, and toxic protein buildup. Researchers ...

A study of data including more than 111,000 adults concluded that people who did the highest variety of exercises had a 19% lower risk of premature death compared to those with the least amount of ...