Exercise

8 Tips to Help Students Protect Mental Health Amid COVID-19

College students across the world are struggling with mental health. Add in the uncertainty and upheavals caused by COVID-19, and things get significantly worse. Since the outbreak, nearly seven in 10 college students in the United States have experienced a decline in their mental health, according to a survey conducted by College Pulse. Experiencing feelings… Read More
At-Home Workouts to Avoid the Quarantine 15

As COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the United States, chances are your gym has closed its doors. But that doesn’t mean you have to stop exercising. Across the nation, gyms, personal trainers and workout companies and brands are posting free or discounted at-home exercise classes online, so that you can keep your blood flowing, your… Read More
University Study Helps Navajo Cancer Survivors Find a Path to Recovery

For a group of Native American cancer survivors, movement may have been the best medicine. Such is the conclusion of a recently completed study designed to help a group of Navajo cancer survivors rehabilitate through a specially crafted exercise program. The study was conducted by the Partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention (NACP), a collaboration… Read More
Do You Plan Your Life Around Your Fitness Schedule? You Could Be Addicted to Exercise

Physical activity feels good and it’s great for your health. It can reduce your risk of developing chronic conditions like type 2 diabetes, strengthen your bones, muscles and joints, and can even help with certain mental health conditions, such as depression. While exercise has clear benefits, it can cause problems if your love of working… Read More
Health Check: What Should Our Maximum Heart Rate Be During Exercise?

You have your runners on, your FitBit is charged, but now what? When you exercise, your heart and breathing rates increase, delivering greater quantities of oxygen from the lungs to the blood, then to exercising muscles. Determining an optimal heart rate for exercise depends on your exercise goal, age, and current fitness level. Heart rate… Read More
Don’t Have Time to Exercise? Here’s a Regimen Everyone Can Squeeze in

Have you recently carried heavy shopping bags up a few flights of stairs? Or run the last 100 metres to the station to catch your train? If you have, you may have unknowingly been doing a style of exercise called high-intensity incidental physical activity. Our paper, published today in the British Journal of Sports Medicine,… Read More
Health Check: Do We Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day?

Regular walking produces many health benefits, including reducing our risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and depression. Best of all, it’s free, we can do it anywhere and, for most of us, it’s relatively easy to fit into our daily routines. We often hear 10,000 as the golden number of steps to strive for… Read More
Is Exercise Still Important to Weight Loss? Absolutely, a Doctor Says

“Exercise isn’t really important for weight loss” has become a popular sentiment in the weight loss community. “It’s all about diet,” many say. “Don’t worry about exercise so much.” This idea crept out amid infinite theories about dieting and weight loss, and it quickly gained popularity, with one article alone citing 60 studies to support… Read More
E-Bikes Offer Same Health Benefits As Regular Bikes

Electric bikes (e-bikes) are comparable to conventional bicycles when it comes to promoting health and fitness in untrained and overweight individuals, according to a study by the University of Basel in Switzerland. The research comes at a time when e-bikes are growing ever more popular, and questions concerning their health benefits are on the minds… Read More
Why Overtraining Might Do More Harm Than Good

When it comes to endurance training, “push it to the limit” may not be the best advice. A recent study from researchers at the University of Guelph in Canada suggests that overload training — the practice of training past your normal limits to raise your future performance level — may not actually work. “The theory… Read More
Smartphone Game Motivates People to Exercise

Researchers at the University of Iowa have developed a way to lead sedentary Americans toward a healthier lifestyle by turning everyday exercise into a friendly competition. By designing an interactive web-based app that’s playable with a smartphone and Fitbit, the researchers found that people increased their walking steps by a significant amount when motivated by… Read More
How World Cup Athletes Gain a Leg Up in Extra-Time

Entering the final match of the 2018 World Cup, five of the 14 knockout stage games that have been played have gone into extra-time. Croatia’s semi-final win over England was only their most recent to require 30 draining added minutes. The second smallest nation to ever reach the tournament’s final round played extra-time in each… Read More
Mindful Movement Can Reduce Anxiety, Depression, Stress

Mental health — specifically anxiety, depression and stress — is a pressing issue on college campuses. Every year, more than 150,000 students from over 400 colleges and universities in the U.S. and internationally seek mental health treatment, according to the Center for Collegiate Mental Health at Penn State University. But now, researchers from the university… Read More
Leg Exercise Deemed Pivotal for Brain Health

It’s common knowledge that a healthy body is reliant on a healthy brain, but a new study shows that the ability to walk, run, crouch and use leg muscles to lift things also benefits the brain and nervous system. Researchers from two universities in Italy — the University of Milan and the University of Pavia… Read More
Can Exercise Make You Happier?

It is well known that physical activity can help reduce negative health conditions such as anxiety or depression, but what do we know about its effects on positive mental health? A new study by the University of Michigan shows that physical activity may result in increased levels of happiness. The researchers, Weiyun Chen, associate professor… Read More