According to a new examination of the Copenhagen City heart study, jogging less than two hours per week can add years to your life. Living longer because of some jogging? Sounds like a good deal.

The study started in 1976, and that's around the time that jogging began to boom, and the study followed 20,000 men and women aged 20 to 98. 1,116 male joggers and 768 female joggers were in the sample size of the study. Comparing their mortality rates to the main group, the men lived 6.2 years longer than non-joggers, and women lived 5.6 years longer.

Most people tend to take up a sport to get in shape, but they forget they should also be in shape in order to play their sport of choice. One example: Skiing. It’s all fun and games sliding off a powdery mountain, until you wake up the next morning so sore that you can’t even walk properly.  So if you’re planning on hitting the slopes soon, here are a few moves that you might want to add to your workout 3 to 4 times a week:

Stairs aren’t just for escaping burning buildings. It's actually a great way of slipping in some exercise in to your daily routine. Think of taking the stairs as a short workout spread through the workday. This type of short, high-intensity activity is just as effective at improving your aerobic fitness as doing cardio at a long, low-intensity.

But just because you’re not built like Usain Bolt,  doesn’t mean you should throw in the towel on your high-intensity workouts. Here’s how to increase your speed and performance when sprinting.

According to a new study noted in PloS ONE, researchers at UCLA monitored learning-related brain waves called gamma rhythms in mice found that the waves got stronger as the mice ran faster. Turns out that when we learn, certain chemicals get released into our brains to help speed up the gamma rhythms, and these very same chemicals may also be released when we run.

Ever try a weight-lifting routine, ending it by stretching all your muscles and then waking up the next day feeling sore all over?

The thing about stretching is that whether it’s before or after a workout, it doesn’t actually prevent or reduce delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS) like many people think, according to a review in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. This practice exercise may have started in the 60s and 70s when people mistakenly thought muscle soreness was due to muscle spasm. While that idea has since been discredited, the belief about stretching still remains.

For those of you who think running around all day is a great way to boost your cardiovascular health, think again.  While there’s no denying running a marathon is to strengthen your cardiovascular system and extend your life, some high-risk runners who are unaware of any pre-existing heart conditions could actually be putting themselves at risk.

There’s nothing quite as bad as having to deal with a burning sports injury, but is putting it straight on ice going to help you to get back in the game? Well, that all depends on the execution of what’s known as the R.I.C.E. technique.

While running shoe manufacturers across the world would swear that their shoes "gives you wings," some experts speculate that they're really doing more harm than good. Here's an infographic from xraytechnicianschools.net to explain the cons of running with running shoes: