Fitness Tip: Bed-rest is not the best prescription for sore muscles. You’ll actually reduce pain with a little activity.

Fitness Tip: Do an active warm-up that gets your body ready for exercise with exercise, increasing your heart rate, firing up your nervous system and muscles.

Fitness Tip: Lie on a bench with a dumbbell in each hand and your arms extended to the ceiling. Slowly lower the dumbbells, then push back up and repeat.

Fitness Tip: An effective way to gain strength and improve your fitness results is to compete with yourself by tracking your workouts.

Fitness Tip: Try doing dropsets, which involves completing an exercise at a certain weight before dropping the weight slightly and performing the same exercise.