ACE Healthy Living Blog

Worried you aren’t getting enough sleep? Wondering if you should get up earlier? New understandings of sleep may be pleasantly surprising—and a welcome relief to those feeling pressured to adopt the mythical “early bird” lifestyle dogma so commonly promoted in health circles.

If you find yourself fueling up in airports, hotels and drive-thrus, eating healthy can seem nearly impossible. However, with some preparedness and planning, you can keep up your healthy eating habits on the go. Check out these common-sense tips for travel dining success.

You know exercise and eating nutritious foods is important for a healthy body, but what about cognitive health—the ability to remember things, the capacity to easily access, retrieve, interpret and articulate stored information from our brain? When that declines, can regular exercise and healthy eating help that, too? New research suggests that it can.

If you are looking for a way to improve your health, enhance your quality of life and increase your overall lifespan, consider adding more resistance training to your current level of physical activity. And if you’re still unconvinced that resistance training is important, here are nine reasons why you should reconsider, especially if you are over the age of 50.

Military-inspired training methods that use total-body exercises to complete high-volume, low-intensity sessions can be an effective way to build muscle endurance and change body composition for the better. Read on to learn more about how to incorporate this style of training into your exercise program.