Category: Myths and Facts

What are the myths and facts about health and fitness? We bust these myths here and provide the facts.

Sedentary Lifestyles Cost Almost As Many Lives As Smoking: Report

We all know that living a sedentary lifestyle is seriously bad for us —  but you may not have realized it was this bad. Signup & Get Early Bird Access To Our Personal Training App A recent series of studies, which looked at more than one million people, found that physical inactivity causes more than 5 million deaths a year. That’s almost as many as smoking, which the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates kills 6 million a year. Whoa. In addition, researchers found that physical inactivity costs the global economy nearly $67.5 billion a year in healthcare and productivity losses. Meanwhile, just one our ... Read more