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Healthy body, healthy mind! Physical Exercise, Fitness, Running, Jogging, Gym and Activity. Twitter Hashtag: #GymEd Curated by Peter Mellow |
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Research shows they can indeed deliver fitness benefits while you work — but only if you use them wisely.
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TikTok fitness trends deserve skepticism. But walking pads can have real benefits for mood and focus.
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Treadmills injure more people than any other piece of exercise equipment, according to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission. Experts share top safety measures.
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After Taylor Swift shared her intensive training regiment, numerous Swifties and our own reporter tried it too. It’s not for the faint of heart.
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We talked to experts about how to run on treadmills, the kinds of workouts you should do and how to make it less boring.
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When the weather gets worse, and those cold runs don’t seem so appealing, there are reasons to give treadmill running a go.
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It's not always possible to take your daily walk outdoors. When weather or other factors drive you inside, consider a treadmill workout instead. Before you hop on a treadmill, however, think about a workout where you change both the pace and incline.
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Your clients likely include deskbound workers who feel they can’t exercise. Well, maybe they can! A recent research review found that cycling
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Did you know treadmills were invented as prison torture machines? Modern exercise is confusing. Harvard professor Dan Lieberman sets it straight.
Today, most of us tend to medicalize exercise, turning it into something that we “have” to do. Case in point: the treadmill. If our main goal was enjoyment, there’s no way we’d regularly spend 45 minutes walking in place on these expensive machines.
But our relationship with exercise — or, more generally, physical activity — was not always so discrete and joyless. For much of human history, people got plenty of physical activity by not only walking long distances, but also by doing activities that were both necessary and socially rewarding, like hunting, dancing, and sports.
Harvard biologist Daniel Lieberman argues it’s time to rethink our relationship with exercise, and to understand physical activity as a complex and integral part of human evolution. After all, while walking thousands of steps through the environment to find our next meal was a major part of our evolution, walking on the treadmill was not.
Read the video transcript â–ş https://bigthink.com/series/the-big-think-interview/rethinking-exercise
0:00 Treadmill torture (really)
1:54 Exercise vs physical activity
2:40 Why exercise stresses us out
3:12 “Medicalizing” exercise
3:48 The 10,000 steps myth
5:02 Warrior origins of exercise
6:12 Aggression: Proactive vs. reactive
7:15 The anthropological view
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About Daniel Lieberman:
Daniel Lieberman is Edwin M. Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences and a professor of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He received degrees from Harvard and Cambridge, and taught at Rutgers University and George Washington University before joining Harvard University as a Professor in 2001. He is a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Lieberman loves teaching and has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers, many in journals such as Nature, Science, and PNAS, as well as three popular books, The Evolution of the Human Head (2011), The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health and Disease (2013), and Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is Healthy and Rewarding (2020).
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Read more of our stories on exercise:
When is the best time to exercise?
â–ş https://bigthink.com/health/when-best-time-exercise/
This molecule may be the “secret sauce” of exercise — but it won’t work as a pill
â–ş https://bigthink.com/health/lac-phe-exercise-pill/
How exercise changes your brain biology and protects your mental health
â–ş https://bigthink.com/health/neurobiology-of-exercise/
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The do’s (start slowly) and don’ts (watch television) of treadmill safety.
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“My calves were screaming,” Katie Tahere said on Sunday, the day after her charity effort.
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US regulators are investigating the firm after customers reported accidents on its exercise bikes.
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Peloton's lower-priced and smaller treadmill is finally going on sale.
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Peloton at first refused to cooperate with a recall, even attacking the agency after the CPSC took the unusual step of warning the public about the dangers.
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Peloton is recalling its Tread+ and Tread treadmills after a child's death and multiple injuries.
Just a reminder that ALL treadmills contain potential risks, as do many other pieces of gym equipment. Think of your own safety as well as children and others around you. Please take care.
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In a stunning reversal after fighting regulators, Peloton agrees to voluntarily stop selling its Tread Plus.
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Lauren Giraldo, creator of “12, 3, 30,” says the incline walking workout helped her get healthy and stop feeling overwhelmed at the gym.
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Growing popularity gives exercise machines new luster in gyms and classes and at home.
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Internet users are posting videos of themselves exercising using nothing more than soap, water, a slick hard floor and maybe a lack of common sense.
Not a smart idea! I wonder when we will see videos of some of these people falling over and breaking there teeth on the windowsill or other falling injuries?
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Some love them, some loathe them, but is treadmill training as effective for runners?
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A reader asks why treadmill walking seems so much harder than walking around the block.
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Want to run the Boston Marathon from the comfort of your own home (or gym)? How about a jog across Tibet?
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Runners have always had a view on whether treadmill running is easier. Michael Mosley weighs up his options.