Running imroves your overall health and can prevent disease. Running can increase your levels of good cholesterol, and can decrease risk of stroke and heart attack. Running can also burn off calories.  Promotes weight loss.  Boosts runner's confidence. Running can also boost self esteem, and builds a sense of empowerment.  Relieves stress. When you run, you exert excess energy and hormones. Running can also decrease chances of a tension headach...

According to the American Osteopathic Association, maintaining regular yoga practice has several significant physical and mental health benefits. Some physical benefits of yoga include:  increased flexibility increased muscle strength and tone improved respiration, energy and vitality helps maintain a balanced metabolism weight reduction cardio and circulatory health improved athletic performance protection from injury  Yoga is also great for stress management....

Source: The National Wellness Institute Here at R.P.T. Physical Therapy, not only do we strive to provide effective physical therapy, we also promote healthy lifestyles through exercise, fitness and wellness. The graphic above displays the six dimensions of wellness. Addressing and striving toward all six dimensions of wellness in our lives builds a "holistic sense of wellness and fulfillment." According to the National Wellness Institute, wellness is a term that can be applied in many wa...

 According to Better Health Channel, the health benefits of pilates include but are not limited to: balanced muscular strength on both sides of your body enhanced muscular control of your back and limbs improved stabilization of your spine improved posture improved physical coordination and balance increased lung capacity and circulation through deep breathing improved concentration stress management and relaxation. The difference between pilates and yoga is that yoga is made u...

Swimming is an overall fantastic workout because you have to move your entire body agaisnt the resistance of water.    Swimming builds endurance, muscle strength, and improves cardiovascular fitness. It helps to maintain a healthy weight, healthy heart and lungs. It also tones muscles. It's a whole-body workout, as all the major muscle groups are used during swimming.  Swimming is a stress reliever, and it improves balance and posture. Most importantly, swimming provid...