The wider renovation of Southbury Leisure Centre has cost Enfield Council £2.4million The refurbished gym at Southbury Leisure Centre gym Southbury Leisure Centre has unveiled its new gym and other revamped facilities after a total £2.4million investment by Enfield Council. The extensive renovation carried out over the last few months has included essential maintenance works…
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…
Did you know that some popular exercises that we all do at the gym to stay fit and healthy may be doing more harm than good? Dr Venkatesh Movva, an orthopaedic doctor trained in Sports Medicine, sat down with Ranveer Allahbadia for The Ranveer Podcast, where he talked about the exercise one should avoid at…
Updated 15:05 21 Nov 2024 GMTPublished 15:03 21 Nov 2024 GMT The app has received thousands of rave reviews This article contains affiliate links and LADbible Group might make a commission on anything purchased. We’ve all dreamed of having a personal trainer at some point in our lives, but even a gym membership can be…
“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…
There are five different hand positions on the bike, and trust me when I tell you that I used all of them, especially during the insane Fat Burn workouts. It’s meant to trigger a huge calorie burn with 60 (!!!) eight-second all-out sprints with a 12-second recovery time, for 17 to 25 minutes. It’s really…
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%…
