Mark D.R. Ford
Exercise Plus Nutrition Counseling Lowered Fasting Glucose in Older Adults With Hypertension
In a 12-week pragmatic randomized trial, older adults with hypertension who added…
Static Stretching After Lifting Sped Early Vascular Recovery in Small Trial
In 27 active young men, 12 minutes of static stretching after upper-body…
Can a Strength Gym Become a Third Place? Inside The Weight Room in Pleasanton
Fitness information can become noisy, but strength still depends on fundamentals. At…
Can a Private Gym Make Strength Training Easier to Sustain? Inside My Fitness Identity in Long Beach
Strength training can be demanding without making the gym itself feel difficult.…
Runner’s High Endocannabinoids Kept Rising Through a Marathon, Study Finds
Field studies of marathon and ultramarathon runners found that the endocannabinoid anandamide…
Resistance Training Muscle Hypertrophy: Type II Fibers Showed the Biggest Protein Changes
An eight-week supervised lifting study found that type II muscle fibers underwent…
New VO₂ Max Framework Standardized Fitness Across Five Exercise Tests
A new framework estimated VO₂ max across treadmill, cycling, step and walking…
‘Eating Jetlag’ Was Linked to Higher Heart Risk in Men
In a study of 104,806 adults, larger weekday-to-weekend shifts in meal timing…
Leisure-Time Exercise and Dementia Risk: Review Finds 24% Lower Risk
A review of 74 studies and more than 4.2 million adults linked…
3 Minutes of Sprinting Changed Nearly 25% of Blood Proteins in Study
A small human study found that six 30-second cycling sprints changed nearly…