How Exercise Changes Fat and Muscle Cells BY: Gretchen Reynolds – NY Times Exercise promotes health, reducing most people’s risks of developing diabetes and growing obese. But just how, at a cellular level, exercise performs this beneficial magic — what physiological steps are involved and in what order — remains mysterious […]
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Workout Tip: Fitness Experts Weigh In On Sports Drinks and Hydration
Do I Need Sports Drinks? By Jen A. Miller Author, “Running: A Love Story” Do you need a fitness drink when you run? Or is water good enough? To answer these questions, Anahad O’Connor, a NY Times Well reporter, spoke with a few experts on the need for hydration during exercise. […]
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Improve Your Fitness and Health in Just One Minute
Got a Minute? Let’s Work Out By: GRETCHEN REYNOLDS – NY Times According to a lovely new study, a single minute of intense exercise, embedded within an otherwise easy 10-minute workout, can improve fitness and health. Just one minute. This is good news for busy people who have tried, unsuccessfully, to […]
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How to Become a Better Runner Through Walking
Better Running Through Walking by Stuart Bradford – NY Times I am more couch potato than runner. But not long ago, I decided to get myself into shape to run in the New York City Marathon, on Nov. 1, just 152 days from now. (Not that I’m counting.) To train […]