We all have heard this one, but do it, and you’ll increase your heart rate. I love that claiming up and down a couple of flights of stairs can help me with balance. Finally, skip the elevator in favor of stairs, and you should increase your leg strength.... Read More
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Chronic Pain and Exercise
Chronic pain and exercise. EXERCISE HARDER IF YOU WANT TO fight off the pain associated with aging. That’s our takeaway lesson today. We often experience chronic pain in our muscles, bones,... Read More
Exercise Snacks: Should You be Having Them?
Exercise snacks: Should you be having them? I do a lot of physical activity. Wanna talk about walking, jogging, resistance training, or HIIT? I am there. As I pass through my... Read More
Fitness and Cognition (and a bit about blinking)
Fitness and cognition Exercise enhances our cognitive functioning and can improve mental health, too. Today, I want to share with you a quite quirky finding from researchers in Japan. They... Read More
Lower Your Future Risk of Stroke
Can you lower your future risk of stroke? Is there a link between activity and your future brain? Many (but not all) studies suggest the answer is yes. The leisure-time... Read More
Exercise – Key to Improving Metabolic Health?
What was striking to us [were] the effects a brief bout of exercise can have on the circulating levels of metabolites that govern key bodily functions like insulin resistance, oxidative stress, blood vessel reactivity, inflammation, and longevity.... Read More