Resistance and aerobic training each offer unique benefits.
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How to structure your workout − resistance then aerobic training or vice versa − depends on your exercise goals.
An exercise as simple and accessible as walking can have significant health benefits for people with Down’s syndrome.
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A 30-minute walk three times a week was shown to improve physical health and brain function in people with Down’s syndrome.
As little as 25 minutes of walking a day had benefits.
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Patients who exercised during a hospital stay had a 10% lower risk of being readmitted to hospital within 30 days of discharge.
Since the mid-1990s, people have been doing less and less walking or bicycling to work and school and spending a lot more time staring at screens.
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Research is revealing that fitness trackers alone can be helpful facilitators toward changing a sedentary lifestyle but don’t motivate people to increase their physical activity.
It’s thought whole-body vibration training improves physical function for the same reasons exercise does.
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Whole-body vibration training is gaining interest as it’s easier to do than regular exercise.
Climbing in the playground is just one of many activities kids can do to improve muscle fitness.
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Overall muscle fitness among children and teens hasn’t declined over the past several decades, but by some measures it’s not improving, either.
Riding together from afar can help you build the exercise habit.
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From step counters and active video games to apps for exercisers and tech-enabled gear, there are a lot of ways to combine your workouts with your digital life.
During the pandemic, exercise classes and groups need to take social distancing guidelines into account.
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Your most important piece of exercise gear may be the friends you buddy up with to work out.
Working out strengthens more than just your muscles – it strengthens your immune system, too.
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Older adults, who are at a higher risk for COVID-19 complications, can strengthen their immune systems by exercising.
Strength training can improve bone density, muscle mass, and physical ability in older people.
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All exercise is beneficial for our overall health – regardless of age.
The recipe for living well during this period of confinement is simple: move, eat well, sleep, relax, manage your screen time and have fun.
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The confinement brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic has made many wonder how to keep their kids physically and mentally healthy. Here are some ideas.
Jennifer Lopez performs during the halftime show at the NFL Super Bowl on Feb. 2, 2020, in Miami.
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The tip-top physical condition of J.Lo and Shakira shouldn’t cause women to throw up their hands and stop working out any more than Olympic cyclists should inspire us to quit riding our bikes.
Getting older? If you grunt when you bend over, you’re not alone.
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Is grunting a sign that we’re ageing fast? Or is it just one of those things that come with the middle years, like reading glasses, greying hair and ‘dad jokes’?
What helps an athlete leap tall distances in a single bound?
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It probably sounds bad or uncomfortable to you. But stiffness is part of what gives elite athletes the spring in their muscles.
Getting enough physical activity can be challenging for women and girls, because they have to negotiate complex gender roles, stereotypes and cultural narratives about the body.
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Women and adolescent girls say that being outdoors in nature offers opportunities to gain confidence in physical activity.
Kids’ aerobic fitness declined for several decades but shows signs of improving in some countries.
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Kids’ fitness has declined for several decades, but kids in rich countries are showing improvement. What does this suggest for kids in poor countries?
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Drinking coffee before exercising could make you run faster and lift heavier - if you’ve the right genes.
Physical activity has long been considered a way to lower risk for breast cancer.
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Physical activity is considered an important way to lower risk for breast cancer. But what if your ability to be fit is influenced by genes you inherit? Would that raise your risk? In rats, it did.