STUDIES
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June 19, 2024
What Your Heart Rate Can Tell You About Your Fitness
If you wear a smartwatch or fitness tracker, you likely already have access to a steady stream of data about your heart health. Beyond basic heart rate monitoring, smart watches and fitness trackers can also measure and track heart rate zones, heart rate variability and heart rate trends. To make...
June 18, 2024
Wellness Therapies Like Red Light Show Promise, Study Finds
The Healthspan Project — led by Dr. Rachele Pojednic, director of scientific research and education at Restore — assessed changes in participants’ body composition, heart rate variability (HRV), and blood biomarkers after six months of consistent usage of numerous wellness therapies. The study included weekly treatments of total body cryotherapy, photobiomodulation (red...
June 12, 2024
Study shows a simple blood test can predict cardiorespiratory fitness – VUMC News – VUMC Reporter
A simple blood test known as a proteomic profile can predict a patient’s cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), and those with the most fitness can reduce their risk of mortality by 50%, a Vanderbilt-led study recently found. Exercise has long been associated with better health outcomes across a variety of organs and disease...
June 6, 2024
Moderate caffeine boosts performance in cycling time trial, analysis asserts
The new research was published yesterday in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition. It was the work of a group of researchers associated with universities and institutes in China and Australia. There is renewed interest in ergogenic sports aids in the runup to the Paris Olympic games. Caffeine is...
June 5, 2024
Study Finds Potential Downside to Vigorous Exercise We Didn’t Know About
While there is strong evidence to suggest that moderate physical activity among healthy individuals can favor the immune system in the long run, what happens to the immune system directly following vigorous exercise is controversial. There is little reliable evidence that supports the claim that intense exercise heightens the risk of opportunistic infections, although a...
May 30, 2024
Ultrarunning Growth in the U.S. Through a Geographic Lens
Ultrarunning and trail running have experienced explosive growth over the past several decades. In the United States alone, this proliferation has attracted new audiences and people from every corner of the country and beyond. This pattern is reflected globally as well. iRunFar
May 29, 2024
Fitness Influencers Negatively Affect Mental Health, Research Suggests
Young adults who follow health and fitness influencers on Instagram engage in more vigorous exercise and consume more fruit and vegetables but also experience higher distress scores (depression, anxiety and negative mood) than non-followers, according to a new study, “Healthier But Not Happier?' Athletech News
May 23, 2024
Opinion: How AI will make pro racing even faster
Training diaries that live on the cloud have become the norm for most athletes over the last twenty years. And as data analysis has proliferated in everything from sleep quality to body weight, to heart rate to on-bike power, metrics are now drawn from algorithms to predict performance. Of course,...
May 22, 2024
Ultra runners face risk of kidney damage, finds study
And a recent study carried out in France and published in Physiological Reports reveals that ultra-trail runners face an elevated risk of acute kidney injury (AKI), particularly during the first half of a race. The study, lead by Jean‐Charles Vauthier of the Département de Médecine Générale, Faculté de Médecine in Nancy,...
May 21, 2024
Time goes slower during a workout for everyone, new research says
Led by Andrew Edwards, a professor at Canterbury Christ Church University, a team of researchers set out to further understand the relationship between physical activity and our internal clocks. Neuroscience News reported that 33 participants completed time perception tasks before, during and after an exercise task, which involved cycling under various conditions, ranging from...