When it comes to exercise, many people pay more attention to building muscle than improving flexibility. The glamour comes from strength, speed and endurance more than it does being able to bend, unless you’re a gymnast or a yoga practitioner. It would be a mistake, however, to dismiss this important area of fitness. You get […]
One of the basic principles of any kind of performance is that you want to get better. Each day is supposed to be an improvement on the last one. That’s true whether you’re a raw beginner or the top competitor in the world. We all know that being the best needs practice. You probably know
It might seem inevitable that as we age, we lose mobility. Even without the increasing risk of conditions like arthritis and osteoporosis, the muscles will get slower and the joints get stiffer just as a natural part of getting old. There are ways you can mitigate some of these effects, however. The healthier your lifestyle,
When you’re on a mission to get fitter, every day is a new challenge. Every time you get up, you want to be sure you’re doing better than yesterday. It may sound difficult, but it really is possible to keep improving if you get your routine right. It might start with making sure you eat
According to various sources, including the Guinness Book of Records, on August 4th, 1997 ( https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/oldest-person/), Jeanne Louise Calment died at the astonishing age of 122 years and 164 days. That means she was officially the oldest woman in history. Some of the things in Calment’s lifestyle may indicate why she lived so long. For example,
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A lot of what’s important in measuring your health, diagnosing problems and working out solutions goes on behind the scenes in laboratories where very clever people look deep beneath the surface of your body and its component parts. There are some standard tests that are likely to crop up whenever you have something wrong with
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We all know we need to exercise. There’s no piece of health advice that doesn’t come with some variation of “but there’s no substitute for eating well and exercising regularly.” That doesn’t make it easy, especially when there’s an infinite number of ways to do it and there’s not always a clear explanation of which
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When people talk about exercise, they often mean high-impact cardio workouts or gym sessions that focus on lifting bigger and bigger weights. Strength, speed and endurance may get more attention than flexibility, but without flexibility, you won’t have any of those other things. Flexibility is about the range of motion in your joints and your
Whatever sport you practice and whatever your level, your biggest goal is probably going to be improvement. You want to be better tomorrow than you were today, whether that’s to beat a competitor or just to challenge yourself. There are so many factors that affect sports performance, and some of them are easier to measure
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One of the great frustrations of age is how it damages mobility. You get slower and stiffer until activities that you used to enjoy easily become dreaded challenges to avoid. Luckily, if you start taking care of your mobility while you are still young, getting older will hopefully be less of a burden. Think about
