Health & Fitness
Lower-body Wedding Workout
May 30, 2014, 12:00AM PT in Fitnovatives Blog | Your wedding day is creeping closer and closer and you’re determined to be prepared and fit. Unfortunately, many brides resort to extreme measures to lose the weight, which a) will not work; and b) will take all of the fun out of preparing for […]
Deception improved athletic performance
Indiana University researchers say a little deception caused cyclists in their 4-kilometer time trial to up their performance even after they realized they had been tricked. The findings support the idea that the brain plays a powerful role in how hard athletes push their bodies. “The idea is that there’s some sort of governor in […]
Disturbance in blood flow leads to epigenetic changes, atherosclerosis
Disturbed patterns of blood flow induce lasting epigenetic changes to genes in the cells that line blood vessels, and those changes contribute to atherosclerosis, researchers have found. The findings suggest why the protective effects of good blood flow patterns, which aerobic exercise promotes, can persist over time. An epigenetic change to DNA is a chemical […]
Zinc deficiency before conception disrupts fetal development
Female mice deprived of dietary zinc for a relatively short time before conception experienced fertility and pregnancy problems and had smaller, less-developed fetuses than mice that ingested zinc during the same times, according to researchers in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences. The findings have implications for human reproduction, scientists suggest. Going without zinc prior […]
How To Maximize Your Basketball Off-season
Maximizing Your Basketball Off-Season – STACK It’s never too early to start training for the next basketball season. Here are five off-season basketball training tips to get you off the couch and onto the court. 1. Develop a Game Plan You want to maximize every trip to the gym and walk away after every training […]
Variety in diet can hamper microbial diversity in the gut
Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin and five other institutions have discovered that the more diverse the diet of a fish, the less diverse are the microbes living in its gut. If the effect is confirmed in humans, it could mean that the combinations of foods people eat can influence the diversity of […]
Dialysis patients’ anxiety, depression linked to physical impairments
With the rate of chronic kidney disease on the rise among older Americans, researchers seeking to improve patients’ quality of life studied a group of adults undergoing hemodialysis and found their higher rates of depression and anxiety could be associated with their impaired physical exercise capability and reduced daily physical activity, according a new study […]
Marathon runners’ times develop in a U shape
Spanish researchers have demonstrated that the relationship between marathon running times and the age of the athlete is U-shaped. The work shows the unusual fact that it takes an 18-year-old athlete the same amount of time to finish a marathon as a 55- or 60-year-old runner. The 42,195 meters that are nowadays known as the […]
How to Add Speed Training to Your Workout Routine
For a very long time in fitness, when you did weight training, it was always at the same speed. And it was not a quick one. When I first got certified in the late 1990’, weight training was always done at “normal” speed on the lift (usually about 1-2 seconds), and a “controlled” speed […]
Physical activity helps maintain mobility in older adults
It’s something we’ve all heard for years: Exercise can help keep older adults healthy. But now a study, the first of its kind to look at frail, older adults, proves that physical activity can help these people maintain their mobility and dodge physical disability. A new University of Florida study shows daily moderate physical activity […]