Some swear exercising before breaking your fast is the most efficient way to lose body fat. But what’s the research say? And what about ‘fasted’ strength training?
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T maxxing offers a compelling narrative: raise your testosterone, upgrade your life. But if you don’t have clinically low testosterone, there are health risks.
It’s a lot more dangerous to be sedentary than it is to go to the gym. And remember: nobody is looking at you.
Callisthenics exercises offer some of the cardio benefits of a run, and some of the muscular benefits of a lifting session. But there are limitations, too.
Plyometric exercises can help you jump higher, run faster and longer, reduce sporting injury risk and boost muscle and bone strength.
Disease-causing bacteria, fungi and viruses have been found everywhere in the gym – including on floors, door handles, weights, treadmills and exercise mats.
Whether ‘adaptive’ equipment is expensive or affordable, expert guidance is essential for many people with disabilities.
You may have heard lifting weights stunts children’s growth and leads to injuries – but this isn’t the case.
Sarcopenic obesity can creep up on us gradually over time. People might not appear frail or thin, but may have in fact already lost quite a lot of muscle through lack of use.
Shorter bouts of exercise – as little as 20 seconds at a time – could do you a world of good.
For a long time many people believed intense exercise caused your body to produce lactic acid and that this, in turn, caused muscle soreness. This is not correct.
Our new paper found most of what you are being told to do in the gym is likely primarily based upon data about men, written by men.
While dead hangs may be OK for people with good upper-body strength and no shoulder problems, they can be risky for some.
All things considered, the traditional approach of changing your program every 12 weeks might actually make sense in order to prevent plateaus. However, there is no hard and fast rule.
If you can’t lift heavy or it’s not your thing, please don’t think lifting lighter weights is a waste of time.
There are many reasons why people may feel intimidated, but that doesn’t have to stop you from working out.
Picture yourself at the gym. It might be confined, people are huffing and puffing, everyone is moving around. And that’s before you hit the showers and change room.
Top tip: take it slow when you get back to training.
Ice baths, float tanks, foam rollers, compression garments - the post-exercise recovery market is booming. But the evidence for them doesn’t always stack up.
We sorely miss our regular haunts during the coronavirus lockdown not only because we like them but also because a healthy society needs places where people can gather, mix and mingle.
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Senior Lecturer, Exercise Physiology. School of Health Sciences, UNSW
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Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University
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Professor of Muscle and Joint Health, University of Southern Denmark
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Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Maine at Augusta
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Associate professor in Criminology, University of New England
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Alcohol and other drug specialist, UNSW
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Professor of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut
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Senior Lecturer, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Teesside University
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Professor, Sport and Exercise Science, La Trobe University
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Professor, Director of Research, Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University
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Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Geography and Psychology and Director of the Public Space Research Group, CUNY Graduate Center
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PhD Candidate, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor in Neuromuscular Physiology and Head of Sport Sciences, Nottingham Trent University