Injuries are a fact of life, from sprained ankles to pulled muscles. No matter how disciplined we’ve been and with getting up early or how good our intentions might be, it happened to all of us and with one very painful, false step, that virtuous workout regimen can be ruined. To help keep your body in tip-top shape, we’ve got some tips.
Don’t Stretch Beforehand We’ve been told that a quick stretch before running keeps us from pulling hamstrings or tearing tendons, even since our elementary-school P.E. days. But in fact, that quad stretch we all do before hitting the pavement or treadmill may actually hinder performance and does nothing to…
Your fitness age is based on the body’s ability to utilize oxygen, with the best measures coming from individuals hooking up to a respiration mask and hitting the treadmill. If you’re 25 years old, then it will tell you whether your fitness level is of a 20 year-old marathoner or a sedentary 50 year-old man. How efficiently the body is utilizing available oxygen, scientists would then measure that.
But now, there’s a better way to approximate our fitness age, simply by taking an online test, after researchers studied over 5,000 Norwegians. According to New York Times, the researchers took about a dozen measurements, including HDL and total cholesterol…
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