People who regularly engage in significant amounts of exercise, as endurance athletes do, may develop enlarged hearts. While athletic heart is adapted for performance, it can be cause for concern.
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Sports gels and protein powders can meet the increased nutritional needs of endurance athletes in a convenient form. But they do pack downsides too.
Try to avoid eating an hour or two before a workout.
Heart block typically isn’t serious, but can cause the heart to beat more slowly or skip beats.
The sport of trail running is one of the fastest growing in the world, but now is facing two major challenges at the same time, the Covid-19 pandemic and ecological crisis.
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Those with the condition could take several weeks, months, or even years to properly recover.
Training data collected by fitness trackers may be useful to predict marathon performance
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An ultra-marathon runner and exercise physiologist describes what it’s like to take part in an ultra-endurance event, and the consequences it had on his body.
New research aims to better understand the bodies of runners, so that ‘smart’ nutritional supplements can be developed.
Diving without oxygen tanks requires you to enact some very weird and very strange and not all that well understood physiological feats just to stay alive.
In July, Scots cyclist Mark Beaumont will attempt to cycle around the world in 80 days, smashing the world record by 43 days. Here’s what he has to get right.
We all know that competing at the Olympics is the end product of years of training, but how much fuel do elite athletes need?
Organisers of the World Championship in Athletics will be on their toes after recent revelations of mass doping by endurance athletes. Here’s what you need to know about doping and how to evade it.
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Nutrition, Dietetics & Food Innovation - School of Health Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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British Heart Foundation Intermediate Fellow, University of Manchester
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Professor of Strength and Conditioning, Edith Cowan University
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Director of Sport, Performance and Health, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor and Director of the Clinical Anatomy Learning Centre, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Nutrition, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Sports and Public Health Nutrition, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor and Discipline Leader Nutrition and Dietics, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology, University of East London
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Lecturer in Physical Activity for Health, University of Strathclyde
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Senior researcher (applied physiology), University of California, Los Angeles
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Consultant Anaesthetist and Professor of Public Engagement and Innovation, Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy, UCL
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Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Institute of Biochemistry, Carleton University
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Professor of Computer Science, University College Dublin
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Professor of Evolutionary Genetics, UCL
