Women Can Gauge What Their Fitness Level Should be at a Given Age to Reduce Risk of Death
Exercise capacity can be estimated by performing a symptom limited stress test based on the speed and grade of the treadmill.
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How Healthy Is Your Health and Fitness Club?
With more and more insurance companies offering discounts on health and fitness club memberships, now may be a good time to join a fitness health club, get into shape, and improve your overall health.
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Aerobic Capacity Declines Dramatically in Older Years
Aerobic capacity declines dramatically with age, making it even more important for people to stay physically active if they want to remain independent.
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Aerobic Exercise Improves Cognitive Functioning of Older Men and Women
Researchers who demonstrated that aerobic exercise is just as effective as medication in treating major depression in the middle aged and elderly reported that the same exercise program also appears to improve the cognitive abilities of these patients.
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Exercise Program and Special Weighted Back Support Improve Balance, Decrease Risk of Falls in Older Women
By participating in a special exercise program, women over 60 with osteoporosis caused curvature of the spine improved their balance.
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Increased Fitness Level Fights Metabolic Syndrome
Moderate and higher levels of cardiorespiratory fitness are associated with a significantly lower risk of developing metabolic syndrome.
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Exercising Safely in the Summer Heat and Humidity
Exercising safely requires taking steps to prepare for the heat. Avoid exercising outdoors in the high heat and pollution of the day.
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Travel Fitness Regimen
A vacation can derail a healthy fitness regimen if the fitness habit is not kept intact.
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Aerobic Exercise Helps Find Genetic Regions Linked to Prediabetes
People's bodies respond to aerobic exercise in different ways due to how greatly exercise alters their blood sugar equilibrium.
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Physical Therapists Offer Tips For Avoiding Injury While Walking For Exercise
There are several preventative measures to take to avoid discomfort, pain and injury while walking.
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Exercise Improves Blood Sugar Metabolism
Intensive exercise can significantly improve the body's ability to control blood sugar levels, adding further evidence that exercise can forestall the development of diabetes.
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Bones Don't Pay a Price When Fat Is Lost Through Exercise
For those age 55 to 75, a moderate program of physical exercise and fitness generally maintains bone mass and, in some cases, offers modest improvements.
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Warm Weather Exercise Tips
As the temperature and humidity rise, outdoor exercise can potentially be hazardous. Therefore, outdoor exercisers should adjust their exercise program to hot weather conditions.
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Summer Footwear, Summer Foot Care
Always measure your feet whenever you buy sandals or shoes of any kind.
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Even Short Periods of Physical Activity Can Have Positive Effects
Exercise and physical activity are essential to a healthy lifestyle and also lower the risk of many serious medical problems.
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Walk Your Way to Good Health as You Wind Your Way Around Lauritzen Gardens
Walking: a new prescription for healthy living and all you need to get there is a comfortable pair of walking shoes.
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How Much Exercise is Enough?
Health care providers are strongly encouraged to get patients started on a daily exercise plan.
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Ease Into Exercise After Long Winter's Nap
If you haven't been exercising you can't expect to avoid straining muscles when you return to an active lifestyle.
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Message to Marathoners: Watch Your Fluid Intake
Researchers conducted the largest study of marathon runners to date and found that 13 percent of runners finished with hyponatremia, a low concentration of sodium in the blood.
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Beneficial Effect of Exercise on Cholesterol Levels Persists After Exercise Cessation
The positive effects of exercise in reducing levels of potentially harmful cholesterol in the blood can persist weeks after exercise cessation, suggesting a long term bodily adaptation to exercise.
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Physical Inactivity Rapidly Increases Visceral Fat; Exercise Can Reverse Accumulation
High amounts of exercise can lead to significant decreases in visceral fat over a fairly short time period.
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Moderation Appears Key to Sustaining an Exercise Program
Lower amounts of high intensity exercise might lead to increased adherence to an exercise program.
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Muscle Capillaries Respond Differently to Exercise In Men and Women
The density of tiny capillaries seems to increase at a higher rate in women than men as a result of exercise.
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Exercise and Weight Loss Reduces Excess Insulin and Lowers Blood Pressure in Syndrome X
Exercising and losing weight can significantly reduce the overproduction of insulin and lower the blood pressure of patients with Syndrome X.
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Your Fitness Needs, Milestone By Milestone
The benefits of fitness extend beyond physical health. Research shows that physical activity and exercising ease stress and depression.
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Modest Exercise Can Prevent Weight Gain
More is better approach to exercise. Further exercise can lead to additional loss of weight and fat.
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Intervals Add Spice To Your Fitness Workouts
The buzz in the fitness media makes one wondering why should anyone incorporate it in their fitness workouts.
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Starting a Weight-Training Program
Your weight training program should be designed to meet your specific goals. First, ask yourself what you want to accomplish during training. Some athletes are most concerned about adding strength, while others are more focused on building endurance.
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New Insights Into Devastating Basketball Foot Injury
Researchers believe they now better understand the causes of season ending and potentially career threatening stress fractures of the foot in basketball players.
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Cross Training
One of the biggest misconceptions about exercise is that there is "one" program that works for someone all the time. The whole idea behind exercise is to make your body do things that it is not used to doing.
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Exercise Better than Drugs for Preventing Heart Disease?
Exercise appears to be an important factor for preventing heart disease. This does not mean training for a marathon. It simply means light exercise for moderate periods of 30 60 minutes.
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Using Sports Psychology to Achieve a Zone Focus
The ability to concentrate in the present and keep focused on the task is very important to achieve peak performance in any endeavor.
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Customize Exercise Level to Individual Health Needs
Starting a moderate exercise program should be safe for most people. However, the men over age 40 and the women over 50 or anyone with risk factors for heart disease, should have a medical exam and talk with a physician before starting a program of vigorous exercise.
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Walking May Protect Elderly Men from Dementia
Elderly men who are sedentary or walk less than a quarter of a mile per day are nearly twice as likely to develop dementia and Alzheimer's disease compared to men who walk more than two miles per day. This is additional evidence that exercise includes health benefits other than just lowering the risk for coronary disease, cancer and other diseases.
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Exercise Tolerance is Good Screening Test for Chest Pain Patients
Researchers studying patients in the emergency department with acute chest pain report in the current issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings that exercise treadmill testing (ETT) was often sufficient for evaluation.
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Study To Explore Whether Weight Training Can Reduce Cardiovascular Risk
Since the body responds differently to resistance training than it does to aerobic exercise, the researchers want to characterize the specific benefits of resistance training, as well as to determine whether adding such exercises to an aerobic program yields synergistic benefits.
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You are Never Too Old to Exercise
Benefits of exercise are just as significant for those in their 70s and beyond as for younger persons. Exercise improves psychological functioning, in terms of reducing symptoms of distress, anxiety and depression.
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New Insights into Muscle Adaptation to Exercise
Researchers have identified the skeletal muscle changes that occur in response to endurance exercise and have better defined the role of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in creating new blood vessels, a process known as angiogenesis.
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Scheduling Strength Training Exercise
There are no rules about the best time to exercise, but you should schedule your exercising sessions on three non consecutive days of week.
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Strength Training for Older Adults: Safety
At times, you will not feel like exercising. If you have any kind of pain or swelling, take a break from exercising.
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