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Got Cramps?
Check Your Salt Intake
Posted August 31st, 2007 at 8:10 AM by Katie Drummond
Section: Running & Training, Injury & Rehab, Nutrition, Hydration, Training Tips, Health & Fitness, Injury & Rehab, Exercise
The most common cause of muscle cramps in exercisers is lack of salt, according to a report from the University of Oklahoma (Sports Medicine, April-May 2007).
The authors cite studies of tennis and football players showing that crampers tend to be salty sweaters, and of triathletes who cramp losing more salt during a race than […]
Q & A: Can sports drinks cause stomach cramping?
Posted March 7th, 2007 at 9:00 AM by Hariz Siddiqui
Section: Nutrition, Hydration
A study from the Netherlands shows that sugar in sports drinks slows absorption and increases stomach cramping in running races shorter than 12 miles.
Fluids pass through your stomach and are absorbed almost immediately in your intestines. Exercise slows fluid passage from the stomach but does not affect intestinal absorption. Sugar added to drinks can […]
What’s the best time for future athletes to start training?
Posted March 6th, 2007 at 8:25 AM by Martha Jones
Section: Health & Fitness, Exercise
A study from Sweden suggests that the best time for future athletes to start training is probably before they go into puberty, because strength training before puberty gives a person larger and stronger bones.
The study also shows that the best way to prevent osteoporosis may be to start exercising against resistance before puberty and […]
Cross-transference can help you maintain conditioning while recovering from injury
Posted March 5th, 2007 at 8:45 AM by Jamal Walker
Section: Running & Training, Injury & Rehab, Health & Fitness, Injury & Rehab
Most athletes are so afraid to lose conditioning that they get very frustrated when they are injured. They can maintain fitness by using a training technique called cross-transference, and so can you.
It surprises most people to hear that exercising one leg or arm helps to maintain strength, endurance and power in the other limb. […]
Why you should cool down
Posted February 20th, 2007 at 8:00 AM by Martha Jones
Section: Running & Training, Injury & Rehab, Health & Fitness, Injury & Rehab, Exercise
At the end of a marathon, a runner sprints over the finish line, falls down and lies unconscious for a short time. What’s the most likely cause? The possibilities include dehydration, hyponatremia (excessive fluid intake with too little salt in the blood), heat stroke, drunkenness, a heart attack or stroke. Usually […]
Does ZERO on the label always mean no trans fats?
Posted February 19th, 2007 at 12:00 PM by Jeanie Rebb
Section: Nutrition, Healthy Eating
Many products that advertise zero grams of trans fat on their labels still have partially hydrogenated oils in their ingredient lists, which means that they DO contain trans fats despite their label claims.
US labeling laws allow a manufacturer to claim ZERO if there is less than one-half gram (.5g) of partially hydrogenated oil per serving. […]
Studies: Older exercisers recover as fast as children
Posted February 5th, 2007 at 9:45 AM by Hariz Siddiqui
Section: Health & Fitness, Injury & Rehab, Exercise
As lifelong exercisers age, they find they can’t hit a tennis ball or golf ball as hard, run as fast, lift as heavy, or perform as well, whatever their sport. A study from Yokohama City University in Japan shows that this gradual decline is caused by loss of muscle strength.
However, the most significant finding […]
Will marathon running damage my heart?
Posted December 15th, 2006 at 11:39 AM by Hariz Siddiqui
Section: Running & Training, Health & Fitness
In 1924, famous cardiologist Paul Dudley White claimed that “exercise can’t hurt a healthy heart”. Over the years, several poorly-controlled studies have shown that ultra-endurance events, such as running a marathon, might impair heart function.
Now a study from Northwestern University shows that Dr. White is still correct. The authors tested 45 patients before they […]
Will achilles tendinitis
ever heal?
Posted December 8th, 2006 at 3:00 PM by Martha Jones
Section: Running & Training, Injury & Rehab, Health & Fitness, Injury & Rehab
Achilles tendinitis means you feel pain in the large tendon that extends from in the back of your heel to your calf muscle. It hurts most when you get up in the morning and when you start to walk or run. It will heal only if you stop running and find another sport that doesn’t […]
Do you recommend carrying weights while walking or jogging?
Posted December 4th, 2006 at 1:00 PM by Martha Jones
Section: Health & Fitness, Exercise
The only advantage to exercising while carrying weights is that you can get more exercise while moving slowly. To strengthen your heart, you have to exercise vigorously enough to increase your heart rate at least 20 beats a minute above resting.
How fast your heart beats depends on how much blood it has […]
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- Is food combining important for weight loss?
Books and programs on food combining have been on and off the best-seller lists for years. They should be in the fiction section. The authors claim that eating protein and carbohydrates, or fat and carbohydrates together causes problems because they require different enzymes for digestion, and either acid or alkaline conditions.
They give you […] - Do high arches cause running injuries?
Runners with high arches are at increased risk for suffering stress fractures, small cracks in the bones of their feet and lower legs; and those with low arches are at increased risk for knee cap pain. When you run at six miles per hour, your foot hits the ground with a force greater than three […]
- Do muscles recover faster in the AM or PM?
A study from France shows that it takes longer to recover from hard exercise in the evening than in the morning (International Journal of Sports Medicine, Volume 27, 2006). Cyclists performed ten six-second bouts of all out effort, with 30-second rest periods while the researchers measured peak power output, total mechanical work, peak pedaling rate, […]
- Know when to change sports to avoid injury; reduce pain
If your favorite sport causes chronic pain or an injury that does not heal, you should probably switch to another sport. Two recent studies from the Argentine Tennis Association followed players with knee and shoulder problems (British Journal of Sports Medicine, May 2006).
In the first study, men who had anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears […] - Healthful fried foods?
The New York Times Sunday Magazine asserts that deep fried food, done properly, doesn’t absorb much of the cooking oil. Does that make it healthful?
If you drop onion rings, shrimp or green beans into hot oil, take them out and drain them, they absorb little or no oil. But most deep-fried foods are first coated […] - Exercise, but don’t run, with arthritis
When you have arthritis, your joints hurt you wake up, but you force yourself to get out of bed and as you keep on moving, the pain lessens. Is your body trying to tell you something when you feel better after you start to move? Many studies have shown that bed rest worsens the pain […]
- Does heart size affect endurance?
What laboratory test is the best predictor of finishing times for a running race of 100 kilometers (62 miles), or more than twice the distance of a marathon)? A study from Yokohama, Japan suggests that it is an echocardiogram to measure the size of your left ventricular heart chamber (British Journal of Sports Medicine, Volume […]
- Spot reduction doesn’t work
You’ll see lots of different machines on television that are advertised to get rid of fat from your belly. While they can strengthen your belly muscles, there is no such thing as spot reduction.
When you take in more calories than your body burns, you store them as fat . Some people store fat primarily in […] - Detection and Use of Performance-Enhancing Drugs
World records in sports are broken by better athletes, better training methods, better nutrition or new drugs. Drugs appear to be the cause of many recent records in sports requiring strength and speed. Many bicycle racers know that some drugs that make them better riders can’t be detected by testing techniques that are […]
- Do you want your child to be a champion athlete like Lance Armstrong?
Champion athletes are [BOTH] born AND made.
Lance Armstrong is arguably the greatest endurance athlete of all time. Edward F. Coyle, professor at the University of Texas, has tested him in his laboratory several times over the years. (Journal of Applied Physiology, March 17, 2005). We can be certain that Lance has extraordinary genetic attributes.
A […]
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