exercise

Sitting too much drags down your mental health. Here's how to get moving

Rhitu Chatterjee

A lot of us have been sitting too much, and it's hard on us mentally as well as physically. Research shows breaking up that couch or desk time with short stints of movement can help lift your mood.

Annie Kunz during the Women's Heptathlon 100 Meters Hurdles during the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials in Eugene, Ore., in June. Building her training regimen around recent findings from sex-specific sports medicine research has made a difference in her performance, says Kunz, who won the heptathlon that day and is competing this week at the Olympic games in Tokyo.

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Sports Science Is Changing How Female Olympians Train. It Could Help You, Too

Maggie Mertens

U.S. Olympic heptathlete Annie Kunz says tracking her monthly cycles and learning she needs to eat more and get more naps when she's fatigued has already improved her athletic performance.

For many people, the pandemic has made it harder to exercise, and easier to gain weight and delay routine checkups. All of these factors raise the risk of heart disease.

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Heart Disease Is Still A Killer. Here's How To Reverse It

Kristen Kendrick

The pandemic has made it harder to exercise and easier to gain weight and delay routine checkups, bad habits that can prime your body for heart disease. These tips can help you get back on track.

Gyms are reopening with fewer people and more protocols, and they want to rehabilitate their pandemic-battered image. Although there's not much evidence, they say the science is on their side.

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Making Gyms Safer: Why The Virus Is Less Likely To Spread There Than In A Bar

Will Stone

Gyms are reopening with fewer people and more protocols, and they want to rehabilitate their pandemic-battered image. Although there's not much evidence, they say the science is on their side.

Mice that exercise produce more of an enzyme that can improve memory and other brain functions.

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An Enzyme That Increases With Exercise Can Improve Memory In Mice, And Maybe People

Richard Harris

When scientists revved up the production of an enzyme called GPLD1 in older mice, it stimulated nerve growth in their brains and the animals navigated a maze better.

Gymnasiums, like Crunch Fitness in Clearwater, will be allowed to reopen under orders issued Friday by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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Florida Gyms, Fitness Centers To Begin Reopening Monday

Mark Schreiner

Florida gymnasiums and fitness centers are among the latest places able to begin reopening. Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the latest steps in his plan to...

In a new book <em>The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage, </em>author Kelly McGonigal argues that we should look beyond weight loss to the many social and emotional benefits of exercise.

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Hope, Happiness And Social Connection: Hidden Benefits Of Regular Exercise

Stephanie O'Neill

A new book, The Joy of Movement, offers more motivation to exercise. It's not just about getting fit or looking good: Exercise can give you courage, pleasure and better friendships.

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Study Aims To Answer Why Some People Don't Lose Weight When They Exercise

Abe Aboraya

Why do some people not respond to exercise? A new $170 million study funded by the National Institutes of Health will attempt to answer that question.The…

Winter swimmers enjoyed an icy dip in Poland's Garczyn lake last February. Recorded air temperature was around 14 degrees Farenheit, and a large ice hole had to be cut to allow the lake bathing.

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Could Exercising In Frigid Temperatures Make Us Healthier?

Paul Chisholm

As a freezing winter drives many of us indoors, some extreme athletes embrace the cold as a great way to burn calories and retrain the immune system while working out. Not so fast, physiologists say.

The people who got caught up in the exercise boom of the 1970s and stuck with it into their senior years now have significantly healthier hearts and muscles than their sedentary counterparts.

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Exercise Wins: Fit Seniors Can Have Hearts That Look 30 Years Younger

Patti Neighmond

Why develop an exercise habit now? Because 75-year-olds who've been doing it for decades may have the cardiovascular systems of people in their 40s and the muscles of 20-somethings, researchers found.