A Canadian grandmother of 12 recently pushed past a Guinness World Record by cranking out more than 1,500 pushups in one hour — and it wasn’t even her first world record. This spring, DonnaJean Wilde became the woman who’d gone the longest time in an abdominal plank position, holding the pose for four hours, 30…
Getty Images / Unsplash+ High levels of physical fitness are linked to a lower risk of dementia for people with a genetic predisposition for the disease, according to a new study. Enhancing cardiorespiratory fitness could therefore be a strategy when a patient has a high genetic predisposition for Alzheimer’s disease—and researchers say it may be…
So how did Mescal do it? His personal trainer Tim Blakeley, whose company Media Physiques prides itself in delivering for, as the name suggests, those in the public eye, tells me that I am correct in my belief that big transformations usually take more time. “Paul’s quite lean, and while I could see he had…
“Move more and sit less.” You may be familiar with this refrain, the Department of Health and Human Services’ condensed counsel for improving your health and reducing your risk of chronic disease. Existing research has tied sedentary behavior to a slew of health problems in both children and adults, from obesity and poor sleep to…
Natalia Blauth / Unsplash+ There’s no doubt that exercise does a body good—strengthening muscles and bolstering our bones, blood vessels, and immune system—but now, MIT engineers have found that it also has benefits at the level of individual neurons. They observed that when muscles contract during exercise, they release a soup of biochemical signals called…
Everyone has a different relationship with exercise. You might be a fitness junkie, hitting the gym five days a week or training for a marathon to push your body’s limits. But for most Americans, physical activity takes a backseat to everything else going on in life. Only 26% of men, 19% of women, and 20%…
Summary: New research finds that even single bouts of intense exercise can improve cognitive performance in young adults, particularly in memory, attention, and executive functioning. High-intensity interval training (HIIT) and cycling yielded the most substantial cognitive benefits, especially when lasting under 30 minutes. While the cognitive boost was modest, it suggests that brief, vigorous exercise…
