Feeling your head pound during exercise can be alarming, but it is not always the result of a serious condition. Dehydration can cause a pounding sensation in the head or a headache, as can fatigue or lack of nourishment.

Exercise-induced nausea is a fairly common phenomena, even though everyone may not experience it. A lot of anecdotal evidence suggests that for those who do not exercise regularly, nausea and vomiting after exercising are especially common.

Gait exercises help develop or maintain a functional walking pattern. According to a May 2003 “Clinical Rehabilitation” study led by Hiroyuki Shimada, M.D., of the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, performing gait exercises improved walking patterns in elderly individuals within 12 weeks.

Rock-hard knuckles make your punches strong and prevent injury. Wolff's law -- pressure on bones makes them adapt and become stronger -- means that boxing training can lead to hand hardening, if you do it the right way. Work on hand conditioning as a regular part of your boxing or martial arts workout.

The groin area is composed of muscles known as the adductors. These consist of the adductor brevis, longus and magnus, in addition to the pectineus and gracilis. A groin strain takes place when the adductor muscle fibers tear from overtraining or exercising beyond your capacity.

Reducing your waist circumference has nothing to do with hundreds of crunches and sit-ups. To remove fat from your mid-section, you must change your eating habits and increase the amount of physical activity you get each day.

Blood vessels become more prominent during and after exercising as a result of normal physiological processes; swelling decreases after you're done working out. If swelling does not subside, you may have varicose veins, which can cause pain and ulcers. In contrast, blood vessels that "pop"

Depending on the reason you are undergoing your physical exam, the instructions from your doctor about what to eat may vary. Follow your doctor’s orders about what to eat before your health checkup.

Many factors contribute to the amount of fat burned during a weightlifting exercise. The intensity of the exercise is a significant factor determining the amount of energy used to perform the movement and whether or not the energy burned primarily comes from carbohydrate or fat stores.

The clean and press involves most of the major muscles of the body to move a weight from shin-level all the way over your head.

Interval training, which is characterized by periodic increases in effort followed by timed stretches of recovery, is a proven method for developing walkers into runners and improving overall running speed.

The first form of circuit training was a short, intensive strength training workout that consisted of no more than 12 resistance exercises performed for just under a minute each, with minimal rest between.