Fitness trends come and go, but the struggle of knowing which ones are worth your time, money, and effort never seems to end. Here’s a list of 20 popular fitness trends and whether or not they can help you reach your health and fitness goals:

Staying strong and active is critical to our vitality as we age. But what about the quality of those later years? Are they spent traveling, playing with grandkids, and enjoying hobbies? Or are they spent in a long-term care facility, hostage to a plethora of illnesses and medications?

We’ve compiled 10 key habits for living longer and stronger at any age. Where do you stack up?

The same exact stressors — job pressure, kids, money, and, yes, an intense exercise and eating regimen — can energize and inspire you or sap your will and your mojo. Reaching your potential is about finding your stress sweet spot and using it to propel you to your goals.

Here’s how.

If you begin a conversation about alcohol, you’re likely to get a chorus of varied opinions.Your one friend swears that her daily glass of red wine will ward off cardiovascular disease, even if it’s at the expense of her six pack abs. Meanwhile, your gym buddy has a zero alcohol consumption policy in an effort to remain as lean as possible and avoid the dreaded “beer belly”.

Is it really possible to enjoy your social drinking and still maintain a healthy body weight and composition?

The answer is somewhat complicated and likely depends on your ultimate goals…

Exercise can be a good way to “blow off some steam” but some findings show that it can be beneficial for helping us better regulate our emotions proactively.

Sometimes you might think we’re crazy people given our training style at Sota, but the research shows that there’s a method to the madness when it comes to HIIT and high intensity strength training…

We know that inflammation is bad, and we know that feeling stressed and upset is bad, but a new Penn State study shows how these can be linked and how the chronic effects of the two can be devastating.

Rolling through Instagram or Facebook, we find narratives and interventions claiming to improve something called “mobility”. We can select from options including stretching, foam rolling / body tempering, lacrosse ball smashing, voodoo flossing, power tools converted to guns being sold as therapeutic, and the list goes on. The level of marketing would make even Donald Draper of Mad Men proud.

Whether you’re starting the first 2019 challenge group or just looking for some tips to clean up your diet and help make that healthy lifestyle a little easier, this article combines useful information from some of the most popular meal preppers out there. Now, you don’t need to do ALL of these, and many of them may not work for or appeal to you, but check them out and see what ones you can implement in your life! Prepping your food is 90% of the dietary battle, may as well gather all of the tips and tricks you can…

We do it every night, and over the course of our life we will spend approximately a third of our time doing it: sleep. But what is it? Doctors and scientists are really just beginning to understand all the important ways that sleep affects our health and well-being — and all of the reasons we do it…