When it comes to the fat on your body, there are actually two types that can cause huge differences in the way you burn fat and maintain weight. Numerous studies have corroborated that brown fat cells actually burn more calories than white fat cells, making them the more desirable of the two types of fat to have.

A recent study actually showed that mice who have higher concentrations of brown fat over white fat cells burned more calories and maintained a trimmer physique than the mice that had more white fat cells.

Going green is all the rage now.  It’s not even just a fad, thankfully. It’s a realization that we are all growing in population, taking over much more of this green earth and polluting it, and we really need to start thinking of how we are taking care of the earth.

We also need to be more mindful of our energy and water consumption, as these are not completely infinte resources.  Another consideration is gas or fuel for our cars. Many people consider gasoline an infinite resource, but really it is what is called a fossil fuel, and there is only so much of it under the ground.

Well, getting away on a relaxing vacation can certainly put a kink in your “on a roll” status with working out. I think that virtually everyone who works out on any type of regular basis has experienced slumps in their routines due to life demands, commitments, getting sick, feeling lazy and a gazillion other excuses.

However, vacations are one of the wores for working out to take a dive for the worse. When people go on vacation, they typically look at it as a vacation away from most of the doldrums of their normal lives. They look at it as a vacation from their commitments. And guess what one of people’s least favorite commitments tends to be?

Yoga has many health benefits. However, regular cardio and weight exercise also has tremendous health benefits. The difference between yoga and more traditional exercise is that yoga can be modified to be much more gentle to people who may not be able to handle a lot of risk or strain on their body. Yoga also has other benefits such as stress reduction and depression lifting, however, these benefits are also shared between all types of exercise.

Top 10 Gym Mistakes

They always say that the hardest step toward a new healthy life and exercise program is the first step to begin it in the first place, but sadly this is not the only step. Workouts and gym regimes are challenging to say the least and mistakes in various areas of the gym are hugely common. It is important to ensure that not only are the best efforts being involved, but also an awareness of some of the most common mistakes that could be standing in the way of excellent results:

1 – All or Nothing

I love when studies like this come out. The results seem so jarring, so incomprehensible, that we immediately go into denial. It can’t be right, because then we’d all be dead now.  Well, that was my reaction to a seemingly alarmist study released that stated boldly that we can expect about 22 minutes to be shaved off our life span per hour of television we plop ourselves down to watch.

Doesn’t it feel great to get a massage after a hard workout may have left some of your muscles a bit bunched up and aching?  It feels good to get some of the knots out that you may have put in your neck, back, shoulders and legs when you’ve hit the gym particularly hard, and that often goes with seeking out a massage either from a loved one, a professional, or a machine.