Fitness Tip: Rounding your back can seriously damage your spine. Remember to engage your core muscles & keep your back straight before lifting a heavy weight.

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 warmup that gets your body ready for exercise with exercise, increasing your heart rate, firing up your nervous system and muscles.

Fitness Tip: To increase strength, implement “progressive resistance.” This means “do more work as time goes on” – e.g. lift heavier weights or do more reps.

Fitness Tip: To get the greatest benefits when lifting weights, lift at least 60% to 70% of your one-rep maximum – e.g. 8 out of 12 reps – for each exercise.