November 2020 Is There a Gender Difference in How Runners Use Glycogen Intuitively, it would be difficult to posit that male and female runners use glycogen differently at similar intensities in different environments and …
REAL News – October 2020
October 2020 Progression & Running Injuries: Volume vs Intensity Running injuries are a bane to both the athletes and the healthcare system. Not only do the interfere with the joys and thrills of running …
REAL News – July 2019
July 2019 Running Faster Doesn’t Increase Joint Load, Possibly Most people, athletes included, think that running faster means running harder. That is, that the cumulative loads are increased by hitting the ground with more force …
Barefoot Running, Minimalist Shoes – Revisited
I have written many times such as here, here, here, here and here on this topic inspired by different articles and studies, so why not revisit the topic one more time, maybe one last time. …
Running and Knee Arthritis
For starters, let’s separate the two main arthritises we often conflate. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an auto-immune disease whereby the body mistakenly attacks itself as if the target tissue is an outside threat. In the …
Gadgets of Fitness, Unchained
The advent of microtechnologies has opened up avenues of function, commerce and study that make the old cordless phone an anachronism from the previous century. Whereas making a phone call once tethered you to the …
A Little Dark Chocolate Helps You Go a Looong Way
Are you an endurance athlete looking for an edge? Would you like a way to get more oxygen to the working muscles, and the heart, that is legal, safe and tasty? Would you believe that …
Can you run too much? can you exercise too much? can you ….. too much?
The world of fitness and exercise is full of mythologies, and this one keeps cropping up: you can run too much for good health. Ken Cooper, M.D., the father of aerobics, from Dallas, TX, said …
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