Active Living

Health • Apr 3rd 22 • Comment

 

The key to a successful fitness program

We like to call it “lifestyle adaptation”. Your fitness habits should become a part of your daily routine. Take the stairs when you can. Add walks to your day. Make small life changes as you work towards your goal. Change habits.

Your nutritional and exercise choices should not be that thing you do when you have time. It's who you are. You make healthy decisions because, well, they are healthy and make…

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New Evidence on Heart Health in Endurance Athletes

Health • Jan 4th 22 • Comment

 

article by Alex Hutchinson at Outside Magazine

About a decade ago, a series of studies emerged with the counterintuitive message that modest amounts of exercise might actually be bad rather than good for your heart. The newspaper headlines—“One Running Shoe in the Grave,”—were almost gleeful. The evidence, on the other hand, was weak.

That debate has mostly faded out of the headlines, but the questions haven’t been completely dismissed. Some of the initial fearmongering about the dangers of, say, training…

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