It’s early, it’s dark, it’s freezing cold, and all you want to do is pull up the covers and go back to sleep… but your alarm is insisting that it’s time to get up for your Tuesday morning Zumba class.

Here's a simple strategy I use with my personal training clients to help boost their exercise motivation in each session and ...

Exercise has a lot of important benefits. But most people don’t exercise or don’t do it consistently or long enough to get those benefits. If you ask people why they dropped out of their program, I ...

Need a little push to get you moving? Fitness experts share their tips for staying motivated. (Getty Creative) We all need exercise — at least 150 minutes a week, in fact — but let’s face it: Working ...

Fitness expert Betsy shares simple, practical tips for staying motivated to work out during dark, cold winter months in this ...

Olfaction may play an important role in the motivation to seek voluntary exercise, according to a new study. The University of California, Riverside (UCR) researchers speculate that "individual ...

Researchers have found that when mice are provided with limited access to food, the levels of food and satiety hormone ghrelin rises. This causes increase in motivation to exercise. This may translate ...

A recent study suggests that resistance training improves exercise motivation and contributes to making exercise planning among older adults. Exercise motivation and exercise self-efficacy are key ...

Feeling unmotivated to exercise? It might not be your fault but in fact gut microbes in your body, according to a recent study published in Dec. 2022, by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania.

You’ve vowed that 2021 will be different. This will be your year: You’ll walk a 5K, or you’ll lose 25 pounds, or you’ll improve your overall wellness. But as anyone working toward fitness goals knows, ...