Unlike hearts, heart rate monitors vary in price, size and services offered. As this piece in the Los Angeles Times reports, many trainers swear by the gadgets, which make it relatively easy to stay in a heart rate target zone that is challenging enough to increase  fitness, but easy enough […]

One of them, described as a warren of tent-cottages that overlooks the Caribbean, costs $75 a night, with $12 for each additional person. Another, with marbled baths and ponderosa pine panelling and set in Yosemite National Park, costs $379. Eight other lodges are priced between the two. They include floating […]

It looks like a macho thing, if macho means being emotionally removed from pain. Researchers at Bath University in England have conducted a series of experiments that, they claim, indicates that women feel pain sooner, more easily, and are less able to deal with it, than men. As this piece […]

As Lance Armstrong trains for what he hopes will be his seventh successive victory in the Tour de France, Chris Carmicheal, Armstrong’s very-media-friendly trainer, talks about, well, just about everything. In this interview with FitTV, Carmichael touches on Armstrong’s training during his recovery from cancer, his training from a distance […]

We’re not sure why anyone would aspire to hold the world record in the Highest Drop Off a Waterfall in a Kayak, but apparently, more than one person does. In this short video featured on Outside online, Ed Lucero slips over the lip of Canada’s 105.6-foot Alexandra Falls, and incredibly, […]

Talk about waiting in vain. If we add up all of the 30-minute "no swimming after eating" periods suffered through as children, the sum would probably equal several months in the water. Now, it seems, we were all waiting in vain. In its intriguing "Really?" column, the New York Times […]

Forget the drugs; turn up the volume.  According to this L.A. Times story written by Jeannine Stein, music can improve the performance, reduce the pain, and sharpen the focus of athetes. Stein tells us that the way music affects athletic performance begins with the eighth nerve from the ear, which […]

Most of us have known for a while that a cup of coffee can ratchet up mental alertness and physical quickness, but we’ve never known exactly why. Now we some idea.  Scientists at the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences of the University of Birmingham in England studied a group […]

What makes a great hike great? Backpacker magazine knows the answer: different things for different hikers. So when they asked readers and website visitors to name their favorite hikes, the editors of Backpacker provided several qualities for readers who choose from. Those include scenery, wildlife, solitude, signage, camp shelter, and […]

Remember when alternative medicine was a young person’s preference? Those days are gone, according to a study by Ohio State University researchers. The study, conducted in 2002 and recently reported, found that 71 percent of adults over 50 used some form of alternative medicine, such as acupuncture or herbal medicine. […]