Both high- and moderate-intensity exercise provides similar overall health benefits.
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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.
How to structure your workout − resistance then aerobic training or vice versa − depends on your exercise goals.
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.
If you can’t lift heavy or it’s not your thing, please don’t think lifting lighter weights is a waste of time.
Foam rolling is eminently popular, but the evidence is mixed.
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Senior Lecturer, Exercise Physiology. School of Health Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Ken Nosaka is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Exercise and Sports Science, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Professor - Exercise Physiology, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Kinesiology, Nutrition and Health, Miami University
