[ad_1] Exercise will make you stronger and fitter. According to the latest scientific research it will also make you smarter. We’ve had research that showed combat moves help raise your cognitive fitness and even turn back the biological clock of your body and brain. What we’re seeing now are studies that look at more traditional…
When it comes to reducing stress and losing weight, exercise has been a key go-to route. In the United Kingdom, for example, General Practitioners routinely prescribe exercise as a means of treating depression, amongst other conditions, and finding a way to exercise more has always been at the front of every weight-reduction program. We live…
Working out twice a day sounds like one of those solutions to the problem of fitness that is theoretically possible but practically improbable. We all think that if we could train twice a day we’d get fitter, stronger and healthier twice as fast. Fitting a twice-a-day training habit in our lifestyle however is something that…
Most people go through their physical training life thinking that running and big muscles are completely incompatible. The popular images that support this misconception come from media reports that show musclebound bodybuilders only engage in lifting heavy weights and seemingly bone-thin marathon runners doing nothing but run long distances in incredibly fast times. Science however…
In looking for the best time of the day to exercise we are really looking to answer the question “How can I achieve more with less effort?” This is both natural from a human perspective and desirable from an evolutionary one. If we can, somehow, get more health and fitness benefits from exercise we are…
When it comes to running on a treadmill the one question that really matters is: how close is it to running outside? Hardcore runners who don’t ever go near a treadmill have maintained that there is a distinct difference which makes treadmill running not “real” running. Most times they base their assessment on the obvious…
[ad_1] Healthy ageing and longevity are distinct from each other. Of those of us who end up living a long life at least a third appear to have inherited the trait from our ancestors.[1] To some extent, obviously, there is an overlap in the two that stems from lifestyle choices made early in life and…
Let’s start with a truism: if you don’t feel some anxiety, an enhanced sense of uncertainty about the future or, even, a little bit of depression in this early part of the 21st century the chances are that you’re not quite human. The external world is beyond our control. But that doesn’t have to mean…
The difference between walking, jogging and running hinges on two very specific, related things: energy cost and muscle load. Basically walking, jogging and running are ways we transport our body from one place to another, under our own muscle power. While walking is fairly easy to distinguish from the other two, there is a lot…
We all want a long, healthy life. These two things however don’t always go together. As life gets longer, if it does, health becomes harder to retain. This is the struggle between lifespan and healthspan. Given a choice, of course, we all want as much as possible of both. It is of little use, after…
