Staying active is one of the most crucial components of healthy aging. For women, especially as they grow older, regular physical activity is essential for maintaining strength, flexibility ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo Monday ordering men and women to meet the same physical fitness requirements if they want to serve in combat roles, saying the Pentagon had “allowed ...

Peer reviewed research has found scant evidence that traditional military physical training — aimed at improving performance on the physical fitness test — improves combat readiness.

Strength training after the age of 50 gets a lot of love these days—for good reason. But aerobic exercise—continuous physical ...

Weekend-only exercise can still offer major health benefits, study finds Women are getting more bang for their buck than men when they exercise, researchers said in a new study published Monday.

The new test comes three weeks after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the elimination of lower physical fitness standards for women in combat positions.

The Army now requires men and women to meet the same standards of physical fitness for combat roles to make soldiers as effective as possible.

Women already must pass gender-neutral physical fitness requirements for combat posts, but Hegseth contends the standards for women are lower.

Women in midlife who consistently exercise have better health-related quality of life than their peers who don’t consistently exercise, according to a new study. Researchers reported that the ...

A focus group approach is used to explore ecological factors influencing physical activity of women living in a predominantly African American community.

The Army has approved a series of revisions to its physical fitness test, recalibrating performance benchmarks in a modest and symbolic move that reflects mounting internal and political pressure ...

Physical activity was inversely related to the depression risk in women. However, the link with depression in males was not statistically significant (odds ratio, 1.0).