Health experts have long known that exercise can help relieve depression, but what about people who aren’t depressed? Can exercise make them more happy or content? The short answer, from researchers at the University of Michigan, is yes. A U of Michigan news release reports that researchers at the school […]
Fitness
Best Exercises For Calorie Burn
Top calorie burning exercises, according to the National Institutes of Health: Running at 8 mph, jumping rope: 861 calories. Tae kwon do: 752 calories. Vigorous lap swimming: 715 calories. Stair-stepping: 657 calories. Running at 5 mph: 606 calories. Basketball, singles tennis, football: 584 calories. Rollerblading: 548 calories. High-impact aerobics: 533 […]
Caffeine Boosts Performance, For Some
The good news from researchers at Dublin City University is that yes, coffee does enhance athletic performance. The bad news is that it does so mainly for people who don’t ordinarily drink coffee or tea. Science Daily reports on the research, which gave caffeinated gum equal to two strong cups of coffee […]
No, Cycling Won’t Hurt Your Sex Life
For years, male cyclists have worried about reports that too many hours on a bicycle seat could lead to erectile of urinary problems. Now comes a report from researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, with some good news, kind of. The researchers found that cycling doesn’t harm the […]
Exercise Changes Gut Bacteria For Better
Researchers have known for a while that the microbiomes of endurance athletes are different from the microbiomes of the rest of us, but they haven’t known if exercise if responsible for that. Now they do. The New York Times reports on a study by researchers at the University of Illinois at […]
Exercise Increases the Size of Your Brain
Glutes and biceps aren’t the only things that are pumped up by exercise. A new study by Australian researchers finds that exercise can increase the size of our hippocampus, the part of our brain that is critical for memory and other brain functions. A news release from Australia’s National Institute […]
Exercise Can Increase Artery Plaque
The general assumption among health experts and exercise advocates is that exercise is if good for heart health, then more exercise is better. But now comes research from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Kaiser Permanente suggesting that a great deal of active exercise may actually increase the risk […]
Coming Soon: Breath Sensor With Fat Burn Read
How do you know when exercise is burning fat? You don’t, actually, but soon you may. Researchers at ETH Zurich, Switzerland’s federal institute of technology, have developed a breath sensor that measures biomarkers (mainly acetone) in our exhalations, a reliable indicator of the amount of fat being burned. Futurity reports […]
The Problem With High-Intensity Workouts
It sounds good: go all out for one or two minutes and you don’t have to spend 45 minutes doing something you don’t like to do. But now comes Panteleimon “Paddy†Ekkekakis, a professor of kinesiology at Iowa State University, who says the whole idea of high-intensity workouts is a bad one. […]
More Intense Exercise=More Endorphins
OK, this may not be the most surprising news… In fact, for those who do high intensity interval training, it may not be news at all, but researchers at the University of Turku in Finland have determined that high-intensity interval training (HIIT) leads to an endorphin release in the brain, which […]