Fitness InTension

18/02/2017

Episode #28. My discussion about HIT & ARX with founder of BibRave, Tim Murphy and co-host Julia Montag

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Welcome to the BibRave Podcast, a show about all things running and racing! We cover a random assortment of topics, (almost) all of which relate in some way to running, runners, health, fitness, nutrition, races, and GEAR! If you like what you hear, please subscribe in iTunes and tell your runner bu...

03/02/2017

Further validation that with appropriate intensity, workouts don't need to be time consuming

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27797726

Br J Sports Med. 2016 Oct 20. pii: bjsports-2015-095841. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2015-095841. [Epub ahead of print]

03/02/2017

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000465

In case you didn't hear, we found the fountain of youth 10 years ago. Wonder why it didn't make a splash? Because it's not a wonder drug or supplement. It is resistance training.

Human aging is associated with skeletal muscle atrophy and functional impairment (sarcopenia). Multiple lines of evidence suggest that mitochondrial dysfunction is a major contributor to sarcopenia. We evaluated whether healthy aging was associated with a transcriptional profile reflecting mitochond...

31/12/2016

My final blog post of 2016. Looking for a HIGH YIELD, LOW-NO COST, LIFE CHANGING New Year's Resolution? Look no further.

Thanks for your support and readership.

http://fitnessintension.com/blog/2016/12/31/dont-just-sit-there

Sitting in the USA has been formally deemed an epidemic. As early as 1996, the US surgeon general warned about the dangers of pr

21/12/2016

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161202094340.htm

A new diet intervention study raises questions regarding the validity of a diet hypothesis that has dominated for more than half a century: that dietary fat and particularly saturated fat is unhealthy for most people.

05/12/2016

More evidence that calories are the wrong metric for assessing the health effects of food.

Writing online this week in the journal Molecular Cell, a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison describes new research helping tease out the mechanics of how the gut microbiome communicates with the cells of its host to switch genes on and off.

23/11/2016

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-11/tuhs-rio110716.php

An epidemiological analysis of data from 1,685 adult Americans finds that regular consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, but not diet soda, is associated with increased risk of prediabetes and increased insulin resistance.

23/11/2016

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-11/tuhs-rio110716.php

07/11/2016

Sleep loss matters! Insulin resistance and unhealthy gut microbiome changes with minimal sleep loss

Results from a new clinical study conducted at Uppsala University suggest that curtailing sleep alters the abundance of bacterial gut species that have previously been linked to compromised human metabolic health. The new article is published in the journal Molecular Metabolism.

06/11/2016

Thinking about elective joint replacement? Think about HIT training before you go under the knife

The benefits of preoperative training programmes compared with alternative treatment are unclear. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a high-intensity preoperative resistanc