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Conventional wisdom tells us that we must train only at our own sport to get better. For example many runners spend most of their time only doing one thing running in the belief that other forms of training such as Bootcamp will be detrimental to their performance.   Unfortunately the realities of doing one type of sports […]

Exercise is good for you but sometimes in our quest to improve we think the more the better and consequently do not allow our bodies enough rest and recuperation. The  outcome is that by over-training we actually do more harm than good and weaken our changes of achieving our goals.  Some signs of over training to look out […]

Hey you know what it is more and more challenging to live up to the ideals of perfectionism delivered daily via media streams The modern world have been revolutionized by the internet , so now we are even more connected & pressurized by advertisers who drive us all to look a certain way.For previous generations they did have […]

HEALTHY teenage girls who mistakenly believe they are fat are twice as likely to become overweight in their twenties, a study has found. Norwegian researchers found that six in ten teenage girls who felt too fat despite being of normal size went on to become overweight in their twenties, compared with three in ten who […]

I’m in London totally immersed in RW’s coverage of the Olympic Games, but I just noticed today’s New York Times Phys Ed column titled “Diet vs Exercise for Weight Loss,” and it’s bothering me a little. I think it amounts to a straw-man argument in positing that we all believe exercise and weight-loss will lead to a higher basal metabolic rate. […]

ALMOST two out of three severely obese children under the age of 12 have at least one risk factor for heart disease, such as high blood pressure or high blood sugar, researchers have said. Dutch researchers found that 62pc of very obese children aged 12 or younger have one or more of the risk factors. The study, […]

SPORTS drinks contain so many calories that they can cancel the good effects of exercise, according to a new study. The study, carried out by researchers at Oxford and Harvard Universities, found that many energy drinks which are marketed towards gym goers are misleading. Researchers explored hundreds of claims used in the marketing of sports […]

Children who increase the number of hours of weekly television they watch between the ages of two and four years old risk larger waistlines by age 10. A Canadian study found that every extra weekly hour watched could add half a millimetre to their waist circumference and reduce muscle fitness. The study, in a BioMed Central journal, […]

The war on obesity will not be won by reducing food intake alone, say researchers from the University of Colorado School of Medicine. In a new article [4], published in the journal Circulation, James O. Hill, Ph.D., and colleagues say that helping people maintain an ideal body weight involves shifting the message from “Eat Less, Move More” to […]