Physical Health
- American Heart Association: No Time for Exercise? Here Are Seven Easy Ways to Move More! – This article outlines seven stress free ways to move more in your daily life and spread that activity throughout the week, to still get the health benefits of exercise.
- American Heart Association: Recommendations for Physical Activity in Adults and Kids – The article outlines several ways to begin or increase physical activity in children and adults based on different intensity levels, according to the recommendations of the U.S Department of Health on how much physical activity we need to be healthy.
- PubMed: Strategies to Increase Physical Activity – This article outlines five strategies to increase physical activity in Americans and increase the number of people who exercise for 30 minutes a day, to reach the recommended minimum of 150 minutes per week.
- The New York Times: When the Last Thing You Want to Do Is Exercise – This article offers encouraging recommendations to keep readers motivated and remind them of the fruitful benefits of physical activity.
- Better Health Channel: Physical activity – Staying Motivated – This article offers strategies for maintaining steady motivation to workout, and how to do so while overcoming disruptions to your routine and keeping your physical activity interesting.
- Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer and Justin Andrews: The Mind Pump Podcast – A health, fitness and wellness podcast dedicated to providing truthful fitness and health information.
- BarBend Podcast – Editor and Co-Founder David Thomas Tao sits down with the strength community’s smartest and strongest minds to with a focus on their learnings through training, competition, and coaching.
- The Stronger By Science Podcast – In each episode, the Stronger By Science team delves into exercise and nutrition research, health and fitness trends, and listener questions.
- Aisha Zaza: The Mindset Mile – To help others build better habits towards living their best and healthiest life.
- RP Strength Podcast – Co-founders Dr Mike & Nick Shaw break down tons of hypertrophy training, nutrition, and other fitness related topics.
- The Prehab Audio Experience – An educational platform that teaches people how to take control of their own health through online physical therapy.
- The Strength Running Podcast – Running and coaching tips for beginner and advanced runners with Coach Jason Fitzgerald.
- Huberman Lab – This podcast discusses neuroscience — how our brain and its connections with the organs of our body control our perceptions, our behaviors, and our health.
- Make It Simple – Andrea Allen aims to simplify health and fitness while creating a welcoming, realistic and empowering space for like minded women.
- Eric Helms and Omar Isuf: Iron Culture – This podcast focuses on dispensing practical, useful information to the listener, bouncing from history to science to teach the audience about lifting, programming, nutrition, supplements/PEDs and the history of lifting culture
- The Revive Stronger Podcast – This podcast delves deep into everything related to training, nutrition, bodybuilding and much more, and hosts the brightest minds in the fitness industry, elite coaches, top tier athletes to dispense their knowledge to the public.
- Barbell Medicine Podcast – The vertical integration of medicine, lifestyle modification, and strength and conditioning.
- Elizabeth Scott: The Running Explained Podcast – For new and experienced runners, from training to racing, nutrition, recovery, gear, and more, there’s always something new to learn about running.
- Westside Barbell – Strength and conditioning based education aimed at coaches, athletes, and fitness enthusiasts.
- Explained: Why Diets Fail – Experts look at marketing, food environments and genes to explain why diets are often unsuccessful.
- On Yoga: The Architecture of Peace – The film follows acclaimed photographer Michael O’Neill in understanding the philosophy and spirituality of Yoga.
- The Illusionists – A documentary about the commodification of the body and the marketing of unattainable beauty around the world.
- American Weightlifting – The story of a sport in turmoil and the athletes and coaches whose passion drives them to succeed despite the odds.
- I Am Maris: Portrait of a Young Yogi – Tormented by anxiety, depression, and a life-threatening eating disorder, a teenage girl copes with her buried emotions and finds her own path to healing and self-acceptance through yoga.
- Too Big For the World – A film about passion, determination, strong women, discrimination and society’s fear of strong and muscular women.
- The Dawn Wall – In an unbelievable story of perseverance, free climber Tommy Caldwell and climbing partner Kevin Jorgeson attempt to scale the impossible 3000 foot Dawn Wall of El Capitan.
- Through My Father’s Eyes – From humble beginnings living in a car, UFC Hall of Fame fighter Ronda Rousey moves from winning an Olympic bronze medal in Judo to becoming an icon in a male-dominated industry.
- Resurface – A 2017 short documentary film about a veteran who was on the verge of suicide before finding an outlet in the form of surfing.
- Limitless – Chris Hemsworth explores groundbreaking scientific theories in how pushing ourselves to our physical limits may in fact extend our life (and quality of life) into old age.
- Born Strong – Four of the strongest men on the planet compete in the Arnold Strongman Classic, which crowns the winner in the purest test of strength on the planet.
- Nerd Fitness – This blog helps desk jockeys, nerds, and average Joes level up their lives through workouts, nutrition guidance, and habit-building.
- Fit Bottomed Girls – This blog focuses on alternative wellness and mindful exercise and aims to provide a fun, fresh and no-diet approach to being healthy.
- Born Fitness – Science-backed tips every week on how to live a healthier life.
- Love Sweat Fitness – Fitness, nutrition, lifestyle, and wellness which focuses on the belief that women who feel good, do good.
- Breaking Muscle – This blog is for scientific fitness enthusiasts & bodybuilders and provides workouts, information on fitness, exercise guides, and reviews on the best products and equipment.
- Jessi Kneeland – This blog focuses on body neutrality, and how to overcome body issues and prioritize your psychological and physical wellbeing.
- Trainerize – A guide to fitness and the business around it, targeted towards fitness founders, enthusiasts, and trendsetters.
- Bad Yogi – This block discusses yoga and includes tips for functional flexibility to help with everyday pains.
- Keep It SimpELLE – Professional insight into health & fitness that focuses on celebrating your body.
- Vincent Lam: Power of Fitness – This episode delves into how and why exercise is an important part of a healthy lifestyle.
- Christine Carter: The 1-Minute Secret to Forming a New Habit – In this episode, sociologist Christine Carter shares a simple step to shift your mindset and keep you on track to achieving your grandest ambitions.
- Malachy McHugh: How Stretching Actually Changes your Muscles – This episode explores the finer points of flexibility and answers the question of if stretching actually prevents injuries like strains and tears, and if so how long the benefits of stretching last.
- Krishna Sudhir: What Yoga Does to your Body and Brain – This episode discusses the unique set of health advantages that are the result of yoga and examines how this ancient tradition impacts the body and mind.
- Leah Lagos and Jaspal Ricky Singh: How Playing Sports Benefits your Body… and your Brain – This episode takes a closer look at the effects of playing sports and what science has to say on the matter.
- Wendy Suzuki: The Brain-Changing Benefits of Exercise – This episode discusses the science of how working out boosts your mood and memory, and protects your brain against neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s.
- Increasing Physical Activity: A Practical Guide by James M. Rippe
- This book proves inactivity is a stronger risk factor than other lifestyle factors for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and many other diseases. It provides evidence-based information on the role of physical activity in preventing and treating chronic conditions and includes practical strategies for healthcare practitioners to prescribe this powerful method to enhance both short and long-term health and quality of life.
- Built to Move: The 10 Essential Habits to Help you Move Freely and Live Fully by Kelly Starrett and Juliet Starrett
- Simple but powerful physical practices to dramatically improve the way your body feels and prolong your lifespan, no matter how you spend your time.
- Exercise is Medicine: How Physical Activity Boosts Health and Slows Aging by Judy Foreman
- In this book, investigative health journalist Judy Foreman suggests that we actually can lengthen our life span and slow the effects of aging, and the key element is exercise, through its myriad effects on dozens of molecules in the brain, the muscles, and other organs.
- Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free by Caroline Williams
- An eye-opening journey into the power of human movement and how we can harness it to optimize our brain health, boost our mood and improve every aspect of our lives.
- The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage by Kelly McGonigal
- The author shows how movement is intertwined with some of the most basic human joys, including self-expression, social connection, and mastery–and why it is a powerful antidote to the modern epidemics of depression, anxiety, and loneliness.
- Rethink Your Position: Reshape Your Exercise, Yoga, and Everyday Movement, One Part at a Time by Katy Bowman M.S.
- Learn how to support your health by making small changes in how the individual parts of your body are positioned and how they move—not only at the gym, but at the office, in the kitchen, on a walk with friends, even while you’re sleeping.
- The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Longer by Gretchen Reynolds
- This book explains how groundbreaking scientific discoveries can help each of us achieve our personal best.
- Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson, Foreword written by Malcolm Gladwell
- This book explores the limits of human endurance, challenging the idea that our physical limitations are predetermined. Through scientific research and stories of extraordinary athletes, Hutchinson delves into the power of the mind-body connection in achieving feats of physical endurance.
- Increase Your Physical Activity
- Let’s get moving! – WHO’s Global status report on physical activity 2022
- Commit to Health: Easy Ways to Increase Physical Activity
- Five Ways To Improve Your Physical Activity
- Increasing Physical Activity: Working Towards Wellbeing
- Guidelines for Physical Activity
- Increasing Physical Activity
- Step by Step Beginner Gym Guide (Full Training Plan + All You Need To Know)
- 30 MIN FULL BODY WORKOUT At-Home Beginner Pilates (No Equipment)
- 15 MIN TOTAL BEGINNER FULL BODY WORKOUT (No Repeats, No Equipment, No Jumping)