Another article from Dr. Gabe Mirkin (www.drmirkin.com), which makes sense to me…not that I need an article like this to motivate me!! Men who exercised regularly stopped exercising for just one week. Both those who were lean and those who were overweight had rises in blood factors that are abnormal in diabetics (Metabolism-Clinical and Experimental,
This comes from Dr. Gabe Mirkin (www.drmirkin.com) You are running at a brisk pace that makes you very short of breath and your muscles start to burn. After a while you feel better and pick up the pace. It’s called the “second wind”, but it really is caused by a combination of: * slowing down,
A good article from Dr. Gabe Mirkin on a good topic. Bradley Wiggins, the winner of the just-completed 2235- mile, 21-day 2012 Tour de France, states that the most important way to recover from gruelling endurance sports is to eat as much as you can, as soon as you can, after you finish each competition.
This comes from Joe Friel, again, and is quite an interesting take on the topic. I was recently asked how it is that athletes can drag themselves through unrelenting physical and mental suffering in events such as the mountain stages in the Tour de France. This topic came up when French rider Thomas Voeckler was
A follow-up on a previous post about the health issues of sitting from Dr. Gabe Mirkin, as follows: Last week’s eZine upset many people whose jobs require them to sit (“Sitting All Day Long Shortens Life, Even If You Exercise” http://www.drmirkin.com/public/ezine071512.html ) Muscles are inactive when you sit. Resting muscles draw no sugar from your
Another from Dr Mirkin…full of interesting info this week!! A study from the University of Texas in Houston shows that saturated fats from meat are associated with increased heart attack risk, while saturated fats from milk and plants are not (Am J Clin Nutr, July 3, 2012). Study subjects were 45-84 years old, and were
An interesting article from Dr. Gabe Mirkin (www.drmirkin.com) Reducing the time you spend sitting to three or fewer hours each day can help you live two years longer. Reducing TV watching time to fewer than two hours each day raises life expectancy by another 1.4 years (British Medical Journal, published online July 9, 2012). Pooled
Yet another good article from Alex Hutchinson at Sweat Science. One of arguments in favor of barefoot running is that it will strengthen foot and ankle muscles that are otherwise left dormant in conventional running shoes. It’s an idea that makes sense intuitively — but, like all such ideas, it deserves to be tested. That’s
A very appropriate article from Alex Hutchinson at Sweat Science (http://sweatscience.runnersworld.com/2012/07/stress-slows-your-recovery-from-workouts/) Very cool study from the University of Texas, published online at Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, about the role of psychological stress in the recovery of muscle strength after exercise. Basically, they assessed a group of subjects for their levels of overall
This is useful article from US Triathlete magazine (http://triathlon.competitor.com/2012/06/nutrition/healthy-habits-of-fit-triathletes_56290) If you’re struggling to reach your ideal race weight, try implementing these healthy habits this season. They read hunger signals. To stay lean year-round, learn to eat when hungry and pass when full. This also means that you don’t feel pangs of guilt for chowing down
The following comes from Joe Friel (http://www.joefrielsblog.com/), in a blog post he sent this week on altitude in a practical Q&A style. Q. Why is riding at altitude so difficult? Physiologically speaking, what happens to the body? A. Oxygen delivery to the muscles is reduced at altitude. This means that the athlete’s aerobic capacity (VO2max)
This comes from Run the Edge blog (http://www.blog.runtheedge.com), with US Olympian Adam Goucher and Tim Catalano, and has some great tips: Dynamite sits quietly until it meets a match. Lighting the fuse is a little thing that releases the explosive potential hidden inside the dynamite. Sometimes little things can make a big difference. How do
I got the following from a interesting post from the www.nerdfitness.com web-site, which provides some pretty straight forward advice and information on health and fitness. The full article is here http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2012/06/07/stuff-you-dont-need/, but below is a summary of the six big things that people THINK they need to get healthy. 1. Gyms 2. Supplements and pills
Another article from Alex Hutchinson at Sweat Science (http://sweatscience.runnersworld.com/). Interesting new review by German researchers in the journal Pain on pain perception in athletes, aggregating the results of 15 previous studies. Some key insights: * Athletes clearly have higher pain tolerance than the general population. That’s a correlation, but what about causation? Does hard training
The following comes from the interesting web-site Run the Edge (http://www.runtheedge.com/) with some good advice!! When the going gets tough…quit! This is not the type of running advice most runners expect to hear but quitting bad habits of body and mind can be just as effective as trying something new. Call it “addition by subtraction.”