An important and often overlooked component of fitness is stretching. Stretching before and after a workout can offer numerous benefits, including stimulating blood flow and cooling down. Jose Bravo, personal training manager at Equinox, joined 'beWell' to talk about the benefits of stretching and to show us a few moves we can use on our own.
The planet's temperature spiked on Tuesday to its hottest day in at least 44 years and likely much longer, and Wednesday could become the third straight day Earth unofficially marks a record-breaking high, the latest in a series of climate-change extremes that alarm but don't surprise scientists.
The only break much of America can hope for anytime soon from eye-watering dangerous smoke from fire-struck Canada is brief bouts of shirt-soaking sweltering heat and humidity from a southern heat wave that has already proven deadly, forecasters say.
