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You may have heard lifting weights stunts children’s growth and leads to injuries – but this isn’t the case.
Sarcopenic obesity can creep up on us gradually over time. People might not appear frail or thin, but may have in fact already lost quite a lot of muscle through lack of use.
Shorter bouts of exercise – as little as 20 seconds at a time – could do you a world of good.
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.
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.
While dead hangs may be OK for people with good upper-body strength and no shoulder problems, they can be risky for some.
All things considered, the traditional approach of changing your program every 12 weeks might actually make sense in order to prevent plateaus. However, there is no hard and fast rule.
If you can’t lift heavy or it’s not your thing, please don’t think lifting lighter weights is a waste of time.
There are many reasons why people may feel intimidated, but that doesn’t have to stop you from working out.
Picture yourself at the gym. It might be confined, people are huffing and puffing, everyone is moving around. And that’s before you hit the showers and change room.
Top tip: take it slow when you get back to training.
Ice baths, float tanks, foam rollers, compression garments - the post-exercise recovery market is booming. But the evidence for them doesn’t always stack up.
We sorely miss our regular haunts during the coronavirus lockdown not only because we like them but also because a healthy society needs places where people can gather, mix and mingle.
Many gyms use free tanning beds to lure in new members who are eager to look and feel their best. But this, argues Sherry Pagoto, runs against the health lifestyle premise these gyms are advocating.
Gyms have gone mad for these bits of neoprene. Yet researchers are still scrambling to catch up.
Working out in a dilapidated gym can yield more benefits than working out in a fancy gym. But it depends on your preferences.
Physical exercise was once primarily an open-air activity, until gym training and monitoring took hold. Digital devices and augmented reality now offer the freedom to head out into the city again.
A handful of countries have introduced anti-doping measures in high-street gyms. Let’s nip it in the bud.
It’s a known fact that exercise is addictive. But CrossFitters – those who take part in CrossFit’s brutal workouts and stringent diet – are infamous for their fanatical devotion to their fitness philosophy…
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Senior Lecturer, Exercise Physiology. School of Health Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University
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Professor of Muscle and Joint Health, University of Southern Denmark
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Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Maine at Augusta
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Co-director of the Centre for Rural Criminology, University of New England
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Alcohol and other drug specialist, University of New South Wales &, University of New England
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Professor of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut
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Senior Lecturer, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Teesside University
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Associate Professor, Sport and Exercise Science, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor, Director Cabrini Monash University Department of Nursing Research, Monash University
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Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Geography and Psychology and Director of the Public Space Research Group, CUNY Graduate Center
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PhD Candidate, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor in Neuromuscular Physiology and Head of Sport Sciences, Nottingham Trent University
