Colleen Travers

It can help improve health conditions caused by obesity.

Ditching your comfortable cadence and resistance combo can help you get fitter, stronger and faster.

Chemotherapy is almost always an initial part of treatment for ovarian cancer, but it also plays an important role in maintenance, and in treating recurrences.

If you’ve recently gone through or you are currently going through treatment for ovarian cancer, you may be worried about how it might affect your sex life. It’s completely normal for women who’ve undergone surgery and chemotherapy on their reproductive system to lose interest in sex.

Although chemotherapy may be an essential part of ovarian cancer treatment, it also can cause side effects–setbacks ranging from nausea to numbness and tingling from nerve damage (neuropathy).

When it comes to getting ovarian cancer treatment, there’s no one path to the perfect plan.

Getting an ovarian cancer diagnosis can be frightening. Along with the many thoughts swirling through your head, the first and foremost is likely about the outcome, or prognosis, of the disease.

Ovarian cancer can be difficult to detect in its early stages, thanks to vague symptoms like abdominal pain, bloating, upset stomach, and changes in bowel movements.

One of the most difficult aspects of ovarian cancer is diagnosing it in the first place. That’s because the symptoms can often be vague, and may not correlate directly to cancer.

If you're starting to feel the time crunch that often comes with the end of summer, your workouts may be falling by the wayside in an effort to spend as much time outdoors as possible or to get ready to go back to school. But you don't have to skimp on strength training to fit it all in, you just have to train smart.

Your body will reap the benefits no matter which one you choose.

Compound exercises aren't just great for saving time during your workouts. In addition to utilizing multijoint movements that work groups of large muscles, they can be done with minimal equipment, unlike many isolation exercises that only work one muscle at a time.

Free weights have loads of benefits when it comes to strength training, but resistance bands can offer an inexpensive and versatile way to hit both larger and smaller muscle groups at the same time.