Over-training or over-exercising can be counterproductive to achieving your fitness goals. Over-training usually occurs when you do not allow your body to adapt, adjust, and recuperate in response to an exercise training regimen. Signs that you are … [Read more...]
Exercise
A Popular Supplement May Reverse the Effects of Exercise
Resveratrol, an antioxidant compound found in red grapes and known for many health benefits, appears to negate the effects of exercise, according to the results of a recent double-blind study. Researchers found that after a four-week exercise trial, … [Read more...]
Sports During Adolescence Has Mental Health Benefits During Young Adulthood
Participating in school sports during adolescence appears to have a protective effect on mental health in young adulthood. Researchers surveyed 850 students for five years about their participation in school sports such as basketball, soccer, track … [Read more...]
Daily Moderate Exercise Reduces Disability Risk in Seniors
Daily moderate exercise can mean the difference between becoming housebound or keeping up with everyday activities later in life. Researchers found that daily moderate exercise among participants ages 70 to 89 reduced loss of mobility by 28% and … [Read more...]
Exercise Curbs Nightly Trips to the Bathroom for Men
If you’re a male and you have to get up in the middle of the night to urinate, you may want to engage in more activity during the day. Compared to men who were inactive, those who were physically active for one or more hours per week were 13% less … [Read more...]
Sit Less!
Shortening the amount of time spent sitting can protect your aging DNA. A newly published study looked at how physical activity affects telomere length. Telomeres can be found on the ends of chromosomes and stop them from unraveling or clumping … [Read more...]
Exercise Improves Motor Skill Development
Researchers have demonstrated that a single bout of acute cardiovascular exercise can improve an individual’s ability to learn new motor skills up to a week after performing the activity. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, August 2014 … [Read more...]
Exercise While Watching Television
The American Council on Exercise offers these suggestions to get some exercise while you watch TV: ditch the remote and change the channel yourself, walk around the house or up and down the stairs during commercials, perform resistance exercises … [Read more...]
Improve Your Workout By Exercising with Someone More Fit Than You
Researchers from Kansas State University claim that individuals who exercise with a teammate or partner whom they perceive to be in better shape increased their workout time and intensity by as much as 200%. The research team found that partners who … [Read more...]
Small Amounts of Exercise Protect Against Memory Loss in Elderly
An animal study involving rats found that small amounts of exercise protected older rodents from memory loss and exaggerated inflammation in their brains following infection. This is the first study to show that voluntary exercise reduces … [Read more...]
Exercise Positively Impacts Anxiety
New research sheds light on how exercise and relaxation activities can positively impact people with social anxiety. Researcher Dr. Adam Heenan found that exercise and activities like yoga can change the way people perceive the world and change it … [Read more...]
Survival More Likely with Exercise-Related Cardiac Events
According to new research, individuals who have a cardiac arrest during or shortly after exercise are three times more likely to survive (45% survival rate) compared with those who have a cardiac arrest that is not related to exercise (15% survival … [Read more...]
Walking
Women who walked more than 3 hours a week were 43% less likely to suffer a stroke compared to those who didn't do any physical activity. Stroke, January 2013 … [Read more...]
Not At School!
In the 1920s, 97% of US college students were required to take Physical Education (PE); today, that number is at an all-time low of 39%. 34% of adolescents and teens ages 12-19 are overweight and 17% are obese. These rates have roughly doubled since … [Read more...]