According to Stuart McGill, emeritus professor of spine biometrics at the University of Waterloo in Canada, fitness fanatics will see greater gains from doing shorter holds more frequently. He advises three bouts of 10 seconds as the ideal regime, and… Read More ›
Fitness
One option for Fitbit’s survival
The fitness-tracker maker has had a good run but has failed in its efforts to innovate soon enough and diversify quickly enough into new, emerging markets. While Fitbit has cobbled together an impressive array of companies that could help change… Read More ›
Fitness Trackers Don’t Help You Lose Weight
If you love your Fitbit, prepare yourself. This story might bring you down. A study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), found that fitness trackers don’t help you lose weight. Instead, they may impede your efforts…. Read More ›
Close Your Rings
Decent new site from Apple designed to help you close your rings. I must admit though that I still don’t get the ring thing when it comes to health improvement. Feels a bit like a gimmick to me.
Forget walking 10,000 steps a day
These days it is hard to walk the streets without running into someone who is anxiously looking at their wrist to see if they are on target to reach the magic 10,000 steps. Is it really a goal worth striving… Read More ›
A Periodic Table of Stretching Exercises
Stretching increases your joint range of motion, warms up your muscles, and aids in muscle recovery. There are two different types of flexibility, static flexibility and dynamic flexibility. Static Flexibility is the range of motion of a joint with very… Read More ›