Category: Fitness
Silk peptides boost stamina, oxygen uptake and fat burning
Right now silk peptides are mainly found in cosmetics, but sooner or later you'll start coming across them in sports supplements. At least, that's our [...]
Exercise prevents creakiness and illness in old age
While a lifestyle that includes lots of exercise helps you live longer, the effect is not very impressive. According to the animal study that Spanish [...]
Supplement containing vitamin C makes it easier to do more exercise
If you keep on like this you'll get diabetes. Or your joints will give up because of your colossal belly. Or you'll die from a heart attack. You have [...]
Weight loss: faster and healthier with 2 meals a day
Slimming goes better with two large meals a day than with six smaller meals researchers at the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine in Pra [...]
Whey improves endurance athlete’s stamina
The tens of thousands of wonderful readers of this free web magazine are familiar with whey as an easily absorbed protein that promotes muscle recover [...]
Daily half hour of meditation protects against burnout
If you are subject to continuous stress and are worried that sooner or later you're likely to succumb to depression or a burnout, maybe you should con [...]
Court hearing for CrossFit researchers
The American sports scientists Steven Devor and Michael Smith are being taken to court. In November 2013 they published a study on the effects of 10 w [...]
Aronia boosts thermogenesis
Do you wrap yourself up in sweaters while the rest of the world is still walking around in t-shirts? Then you probably have what traditional Asian hea [...]
Ginkgo keeps incorrigible fatties healthy
Obese people who are not prepared to do more exercise or eat more healthily should maybe start taking Ginkgo biloba. It might help keep their overweig [...]
High frequency training works just as well as low frequency training
Bodybuilders gain just as much strength and muscle mass by following a traditional split schedule as they do if they train all muscle groups in one se [...]
Sets of 6-8 reps build up just as much strength as sets of 10-14 reps
Most bodybuilders train with sets of 6-8 reps using heavy weights, but some dissidents prefer to do sets of 10-14 reps using slightly lighter weights. [...]
CrossFit is not more effective than traditional fitness
CrossFit is a controversial but increasingly popular way of doing fitness, in which certified trainers get their pupils, in groups, to do exercises fr [...]
Lose weight with chlorophyll
Green vegetables such as spinach, curly kale and endive, and superfoods such as spirulina, chlorella and wheat grass all contain chlorophyll. If you c [...]
How multi-vitamins can help you stay slim
The worldwide decline in vitamin intake is contributing to the increase in the number of overweight people. Scientists at the French research institut [...]
How many workouts bodybuilders can skip (without reducing their progression)
Bodybuilders who skip the occasional workout – because they lack the time or inclination – make just as much progress as bodybuilders who never miss a [...]
