Fitness Articles & Tips

Achieving optimal health is a personal journey that may include improving your physical fitness. Signos encourages a balanced approach to exercise and fitness that includes cardio workouts, resistance training, and frequent bouts of movement spread throughout each day. Our fitness articles are intended to provide you with valuable material, tools, tips, advice, support, and information—all backed by science—to help you start, continue and achieve your fitness goals.

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How to Calculate Your Target Heart Rate for Weight Loss

Learn how to calculate your target heart rate and uncover the best exercise intensities for losing fat and burning calories.

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man wearing CGM riding exercise bike

man wearing CGM riding exercise bike

Why Is My Blood Sugar High During or After Exercise?

Your blood sugar might be high during or after exercise. Leann Poston, M.D., explains why glucose spikes during or after a workout typically aren’t a bad thing.

A man and woman doing lunges in a park just after sunrise

A man and woman doing lunges in a park just after sunrise

Should You Exercise Before or After Breakfast?

Ashley Pitt, CPT, Pn1, helps you choose between fed and fasted morning workouts based on your performance and weight loss goals.

Woman putting chalk on her hands before picking up a kettlebell

Woman putting chalk on her hands before picking up a kettlebell

Using Metabolic Workouts to Speed Up Your Metabolism (And Training Time)

Learn how to use exercise selection, intensity and rest to improve your immediate and post-exercise benefits with metabolic training.

Women working out in a gym; slightly out of focus

Women working out in a gym; slightly out of focus

How to Calculate Your Target Heart Rate for Weight Loss

February 22, 2022

Learn how to calculate your target heart rate and uncover the best exercise intensities for losing fat and burning calories.

Woman wearing workout clothes and wearing apple watch

Woman wearing workout clothes and wearing apple watch

Can You Lose Weight Without Exercise?

January 12, 2022

Can you lose weight and keep it off without exercising? Diet and exercise are both important to your long-term health goals, but let’s see what the research says.

Woman powerlifiting a heavy barbell over her head. This is an example of anaerobic exercise.

Woman powerlifiting a heavy barbell over her head. This is an example of anaerobic exercise.

14 Health Benefits of Anaerobic Exercise

December 2, 2021

All exercise does your body good, but anaerobic exercises are short and spicy efforts with myriad benefits.

A man bending down to pick up a barbell, a weightlifting exercise that burns calories

A man bending down to pick up a barbell, a weightlifting exercise that burns calories

How Many Calories Are Burned Weightlifting?

October 29, 2021

Discover how to maximize fat and calories burned weightlifting plus tips for a well-rounded workout routine.

Woman wearing grey leggings and a sports bra holding a protein shake

Woman wearing grey leggings and a sports bra holding a protein shake

What's Best? Protein Before or After a Workout?

Sabrina Tillman

Director of Content

September 24, 2021

Do you need that post-exercise protein shake? Read the latest research about protein before or after workouts.

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