This interval-based walking technique can help to enhance your strength, aerobic fitness and resistance to illness and injury ...

Aerobic fitness has a favorable effect on cognitive functions. For example, physically active elderly people are less prone to aging-related cognitive decline than those who lead a sedentary lifestyle ...

The drastic increase in the number of obese patients with insulin resistance has become a medical and public health crisis in industrialized countries. Metabolic syndrome (MetS) characterized by ...

High-intensity interval training outperforms standard home exercise in improving fitness for patients with inflammatory ...

Aerobic exercise capacity has proven to be a good indicator of health. A recent article uses a rat model to show that innate exercise capacity can be linked to longevity. Aerobic exercise capacity has ...

This piece was adapted from David Epstein’s new book The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance. It was January 2002, my senior indoor track season at Columbia ...

Chances are that if you’re not a competitive endurance athlete, you’re probably not that concerned about your aerobic or anaerobic status during training. You may not even know the difference between ...

Gainesville, FL - In an unusual study that saw elderly men and women doing bicep curls and leg presses, researchers have found that resistance weight training can improve aerobic capacity in older ...

Scientists in Spain have published a paper examining the fat-burning potential of coffee before exercise, and how its consumption at different times of the day may influence the end result. Albeit ...