Have you ever felt like you were doing everything right for your health, but still not seeing the results you want? Here are some common health mistakes.

We’ve looked at the science of walking with weights and enlisted the help of exercise physiologist Bianca Grover to find out how to begin and explore the positive impacts it could have on your health.

What is hypertrophy? If you’ve spent much time in a gym or around people steeped in the world of fitness, the chances are you’ve heard the term hypertrophy, or hypertrophy training. However, while we might often hear about it, many people remain unsure as to what hypertrophy is.

Bianca Grover is interviewed by The Vitamin Shoppe on bad fitness tips to start the year.

All too often, individuals looking to lose weight do not see the results they are looking for because they are approaching it the wrong way. Poor fitness information is readily available and polluting the health and wellness industry.

At the risk of stating the obvious: if you’re trying to lose weight, creating a calorie deficit — in other words, taking in fewer calories than you burn each day — is crucial. What’s not so obvious is figuring out how to create this deficit in a safe and healthy way, to ensure all your efforts don’t backfire.

If you used to have an active lifestyle and now you spend all your time stuck at home it’s difficult to avoid gaining weight. The lack of movement and the non-stop access to the fridge and unhealthy snacks are the main causes for the weight gain that you are so eager to avoid. In this post, you will find solutions to help you keep your current weight and adopt healthy habits.

Exercise: love it or hate it, we can all agree that if you’re going to spend the time to do it, you better get the most from it. The right pre- and post-workout rituals can help you recover, get stronger, and crush every workout. Make these 10 steps an important part of your workout routine:

We get it: when it comes to weight loss, it feels tough to even get started if you don't have access to a gym, home workout equipment, or even a set of dumbbells. Of course, as you probably know by this point, weight loss has a lot to do with your life outside of exercise, too; aspects like sleep and nutrition play key roles in getting after this goal. No matter how hard you work out, it's important to eat nutritious foods, like vegetables and protein-rich items, to see results. Exercise is only part of the equation.

We all know a daily walking habit is well-worth keeping up with for its physical and mental health benefits. You’ve probably heard the advice to schedule your walks in your calendar or set out your sneakers the night before. Maybe you’ve even tried sleeping in your walking clothes, so you have no excuse to skip your morning stroll. But sometimes, despite our best intentions, getting out the door for a walk can feel next to impossible.

Although tight hamstrings are not a cause for concern, it is good to know that unchecked tightness can cause the hips and pelvis to rotate back, flattening the lower back and causing back pain, knee pain or foot pain. Making sure that one’s workout is balanced and targets different muscles in the body equally is very important in preventing muscular imbalances, such as tight hamstrings.

“Using split workouts also allows you to work muscle groups at a higher intensity, compared to consistent full-body workouts,” Grover explains to Lively. If you’ve heard the phrase, “don’t skip leg day,” this is what split workouts are all about.

Ouch! It’s too late. You’ve reached too far and hurt your neck or back, or pulled a muscle while performing the gymnastics we go through to set up camp. Perhaps after driving all day, you are so stiff and sore that you can barely walk normally by the time you reach your destination.