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Physical and Mental Health - Exercise, Fitness and Activity
Healthy body, healthy mind! Physical Exercise, Fitness, Running, Jogging, Gym and Activity. Twitter Hashtag: #GymEd Curated by Peter Mellow |
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Ironman competitions attract athletes from across the world keen to push their body to its limits, but could you make it to the starting line with just help of an AI program?
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BlazePod is a smart light-based reflex training system that brings an element of competition to your workouts, offering a fun way to improve your agility, balance, coordination, reaction time, strength, and more. www.blazepod.com
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Retired teacher and baseball fan Leta found corrective exercise and functional aging specialist Damien Joyner to help her with her fitness.
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The cellular events underpinning exercise adaptation have long been studied since Holloszy's novel findings in rodents over 50 years ago (Holloszy, 1967). Contemporary advances in laboratory techniques have allowed researchers to further explore physiological adaptations to physical activity, and much attention has been given to elucidating the distinct biochemical responses to exercise of varying intensities. More specifically, comparison of high intensity interval training (HIIT) or sprint interval training (SIT), to moderate intensity continuous training (MICT) has been an area of great interest among exercise physiologists. Spearheading these investigations, Burgomaster and colleagues provided evidence for robust and comparable metabolic adaptations when 6-weeks of low-volume SIT was pitted against conventional MICT, despite markedly reduced total training volume in the SIT group (66% less time, 90% less energy expenditure) (Burgomaster et al., 2008). Follow-up studies supporting these findings has provided continued enthusiasm for HIIT/SIT as a time-efficient strategy to improve cardiometabolic health (Gillen and Gibala, 2014;Gillen et al., 2016;Wolfe et al., 2020). HIIT has since become one of the most popular fitness trends as reported by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) (#5 in survey) (Thompson, 2021). While we acknowledge these findings and are advocates for HIIT, we feel as though it is also important to appreciate the discrepant nature of HIIT an
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If you've never lifted weights in your life — and many people haven't — why should you start now? The answer is simple: Muscle tissue, bone density, and strength all dwindle over the years. So, too, does muscle power. These changes open the door to accidents and injuries that can compromise your ability to lead an independent, active life. Strength training is the most effective way to slow and possibly reverse much of this decline.
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New research shows that strength training, like aerobic exercise, may be an effective way to prevent or alleviate depression.
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With restrictions imposed in their countries to slow the spread of Covid-19, athletes from the canoeist Mallory Franklin to the runner Valeria Nazarova have found ways to train at home.
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In this talk, Dr Seiler explains in words and pictures how modern exercise physiology laboratories reveal the body’s remarkable capacity for adaptation. He also tells us about the “laboratories” developed by athletes and coaches since the start of the Cold War in the 1950s. The laboratory of the scientist and the laboratory of the coach/athlete come together as Dr. Seiler describes his own journeys back and forth between them. By connecting the power of both, we have learned why “no pain no gain” is a slick slogan, but a fundamentally flawed approach to getting faster and fitter over time. Stephen Seiler has spent years studying the training habits of great endurance athletes. What he discovered has shattered the myths he grew up with in the US. Let him tell you why going “green” is also important for building endurance sustainably.
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Exercise, especially interval training, encourages your cells to make more proteins for their energy-producing machinery and this stops the aging process, a study finds.
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A recent study found while parents are positive about their children engaging in aerobic activities (running, playing sports), they have much more negative views when it comes to strength exercises.
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Focus on training your functional strength daily, and make sure to stretch, in order to have the best workout as you age
She suggests taking up tai chi,Pilates, or yoga, all of which can improve stability; Really that sounds so girly.
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Experts are urging pregnant women not to do exactly as Michelle Bridges does when exercising, or they risk developing rectus abdominus diastasis.
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If you're nursing a running injury, get creative to stay in peak condition.
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As we head into the festive season, get familiar with how alcohol affects your muscle growth, fat loss and training motivation.
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Most of us know that strength training (with free weights, weight machines, or resistance bands) can help build and maintain muscle mass and strength. What many of us don’t know is that strong muscles lead to strong bones. And strong bones can help minimize the risk of fracture due to osteoporosis.
At age 69, I use a combination of weights, treadmill, yoga, and resistance bands for my own personal workouts. I am pleased, not only with the results in strength, but in cardiovascular ability as well.
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Shana Verstegen started logrolling when she was 7. She's now a six-time world lumberjack champion with six-pack abs.
Scripted exercise is the way to go for most people, but some activities are good too.
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Strength training, traditionally favored by body builders seeking to bulk up, has become the go-to regimen for athletes, weekend warriors and exercise enthusiasts determined to slim down.
Remember ACSM's guidelines"
"The American Council on Exercise recommends a minimum of one to two days of strength training per week, Ratliff said, but she cautions that metabolic strength training is a high intensity activity that needs to be monitored and programmed correctly to avoid injury.
"This is not something you would start someone on who is very new to exercising," she said."
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The debate is over - the key to health and fitness is to get moving, whether you are three or 73.
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Exercise is healthy, right? But too much of the right stuff can put your health at risk.
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We hear it time and time again, the more exercise you do, the better it is for your metabolism, your body and your mind. Now, that's all well and good but what is less frequently discussed is the fact that many of us are training poorly - so poorly in fact that our exercise may not really be doing much at all. So, here are some of the most common exercise mistakes women make, and the easy ways to fix them.
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Galen Rupp continued his long and impressive career Saturday night in Boston with a training session of 5 x 1 mile in 4:21, 4:20, 4:20, 4:16, and 4:01. A nice piece of work.
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The new training guides will provide you with expert advice tailored to your distance and fitness level. Each 10 week program includes a daily calendar of training and rest days, weekly recipes, goals, motivational quotes and training tips.
Some great training guides for:
• 4km
•12 km
• Half Marathon
• Marathon