Today is National Exercise Day, a day to encourage and celebrate physical activity. The sun is out, temperatures are rising and many of us are embracing the outdoors after being cooped up all winter.

Liao encouraged people to focus on attainable behavior-based goals rather the outcomes. Instead of aiming to lose 20 pounds, ...

A person’s physical activity requirements depend on a number of variables, including their current health status and personal goals. The simple answer is that some is better than none, and more is ...

You can think about this as investing in habits, not equipment. Small goals help people increase confidence, and confidence ...

A strategy that combines wearable monitors and “gamification” of physical activity, along with encouraging participants to pursue their own goals, may help motivate people at risk for CVD to get and ...

The effectiveness of an intervention depends on its dose and on moderators of dose, which usually are not studied. The purpose of the study is to determine whether goal setting and theorybased ...

Corneel Vandelanotte receives research funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian Research Council, the National Heart Foundation of Australia, and the Medical ...

Insurance models that offer members financial incentives for meeting fitness goals are proving successful at encouraging sustained levels of physical activity, according to a new report from health ...