Working out at any temperature is good, but working out when it’s cold outside (or inside) is better. That, as reported in the Wall Street Journal, is the opinion of Christopher Minson, a physiology professor at the University of Oregon, who studies the body’s response to extreme environments and works […]
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How To Exercise with a Mask
Health experts at the Mayo Clinic have some advice for people who wear a mask while exercising: don’t go crazy. They recommend low to moderate intensity training, the kind of training that allows you to breathe well enough that your body can regulate its temperature. What kind of mask is […]
Anthony Fauci on Running
Electrolyte Supplements Don’t Help Runners
Electrolyte supplements, often taken by marathoners and ultra-marathoners to keep sodium levels in balance, don’t do the trick, according to research conducted at Stanford University. A Stanford news release reports that when researchers at the school analyzed data from 266 ultra-marathoners after a 50 mile run, they found that 41 […]
Exercise Keeps Old Muscles Young
Sure, exercise keeps older people running faster longer. Everyone knows that. But now researchers at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana have a better idea of how that really works. The New York Times reports that the researchers gathered a group of older athletes, mainly runners in their 70s or […]
For Heart Health, Aerobic Tops Strength Training
Wondering if you should for a run or head to the gym and lift those damn weights? Geezer says run. It’s better for your heart. We know that because Scandinavian researchers recently went to great effort to track the fitness and the healthful metabolites of 580 Finnish men who were […]
What’s Better, Morning or Evening Exercise?
Is it worth getting up early to exercise? Or is an evening run just as good for you? Researchers at the University of Copenhagen were determined to find out, using mice instead of people. Their study, conducted with researchers at the University of California, Irvine, measured a number of effects […]
Marathon Training Reverses Blood Vessel Aging
Turns out that daily running can turn back the clock on our blood vessels. That’s the conclusion or researchers at University College in London, who studied the blood vessels of 139 first time marathon runners, aged 21 to 69, before and after training, which consisted of running 6 to 13 […]
Get Up. We Sit Too Much
Just when you thought Americans had learned the value of exercise, along comes a study showing that the amount of time that most of us spend sitting down is increasing, not decreasing. Washington University in St. Louis reports the researchers at the school found that total daily sitting time increased […]
Danger in Trendy Workouts
Trendy intense workouts come with risks.