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When asked about postpartum exercise, women were curious about strategies and recommendations for physical activity after the birth of a child, including finding the time, energy and motivation.
Weight lifting and other resistance exercises might be key to becoming a better runner.
Fat people need to be empowered to critique the very groups so willing to instrumentalize their bodies for political gain.
Even with Winter Olympics for inspiration, outdoor activity in sub-zero weather can be hard to commit to. How can it be easier, safer and more fun to embrace your inner winter athlete?
There’s little evidence that the ingredients in most of these supplements work at the small doses they’re normally taken.
Adjusting your goals may be the best way to stay motivated in the long term.
Researchers looked at the most popular YouTube fitness videos and the types of behavioural change techniques they used. Here’s what they found.
Preparing for being active in cold weather can help keep us safe and increase our enjoyment.
Although ‘training to failure’ may be popular among people who regularly lift weights, it might not be as beneficial as some claim.
Exercise can’t make up for a poor diet, but it can help change eating habits. Regular exercise improves the brain and cognitive processes that help regulate junk food consumption and reduces stress.
Over half of people who intend to make healthy lifestyle changes fail to do so. Understanding the automatic tendencies that prevent people from enacting a new health habit can help them stick to it.
For many, the pandemic has disrupted daily habits around eating and fitness – which makes it a prime time to shake up old assumptions about achieving an ideal body.
To get more workers to be active, public health messaging must recognize the important role employers can play in creating the conditions for workers to focus on exercise.
Our analysis showed 13 genes that were directly responsible for influencing how certain people adapted to different types of exercise.
Practising standing on one leg has also sorts of benefits, research shows
A new study finds huge benefit in taking just 7,000 steps a day. Which may come as a relief to those who never quite make it to 10,000.
Australians love mass sporting events and raising money for charity. Under COVID, these activities have taken a major blow.
The amount of exercise you need to do depends on your training goals.
Socio-economic factors are major barriers to physical activity. New research suggests this is one more reason why disadvantaged people were at increased risk for COVID-19.
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Professor of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Reader in Exercise and Health Physiology, University of Hertfordshire
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Associate Professor, Cardiorespiratory Exercise Physiology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Nutritional Physiology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science, Swansea University
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Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise, Teesside University
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Professor of Physical Activity, Lifestyle, and Population Health, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Physiology, University of Westminster
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Director of Sport, Performance and Health, Heriot-Watt University
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Clinician Scientist, Canada Research Chair in Injury Prevention and Physical Activity for Health, Sport Medicine Physician, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University
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Associate Professor in Neuromuscular Physiology, Liverpool John Moores University
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Postdoctoral fellow, Behavioural Medicine Lab, School of Exercise Science, Physical & Health Education, University of Victoria
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Lecturer in Biomechanics and Strength and Conditioning, Teesside University
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Lecturer in Sport, Health & exercise Science, University of Stirling
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Professor in Public Health Data Science, Swansea University
