Entries filed under 'exercise'

Fitness and Fresh Air: New York Times Report Examines the Benefits of Exercising Outdoors

The outdoors is humanity’s original gym. It appears it might still be the best to workout. Author and New York Times fitness writer Gretchen Reynolds cites a variety of studies that indicate outdoor exercise delivers benefits that cannot be matched indoors. ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on February 25, 2013 12:00 PM & Tagged Cycling, Outdoors, Running, exercise, fitness and walking | permalink | Comments



Shun the Chair: Extend Your Life by Sitting Less, Moving More

News outlets from The Wall Street Journal to WebMD to Time have picked up on a study that indicates people who spend less time sitting are likely adding years to their lives. According to a study published in the British Medical Journal's online outlet, BMJ Open, reducing your time spent sitting to 3 hours a day or less may add 2 years to your life expectancy. Plus, cutting TV viewing to fewer than 2 hours a day may extend life by about 1.4 years. This reinforces an Australian study released ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on July 12, 2012 7:26 PM & Tagged active, exercise, health and sitting | permalink | Comments



Prepping for a Marathon: What's Been Your Experience with Carbo-Loading?

Got a marathon coming up? A century bike ride? A sunup-to-sunset day hike? If so, is carbo-loading a smart way to fuel your body for the challenge? In a column published last weekend in Canada's Globe and Mail, author Alex Hutchinson (Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?; sweatscience.com) cites a recently released British study that tracked the training and dietary patterns of 257 participants in the 2009 London Marathon. "Sure enough," Hutchinson writes, "day-before carbohydrate consumption ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on January 27, 2012 12:54 AM & Tagged carbo-loading, carbs, exercise, gels, marathon and sports drinks | permalink | Comments



Mid-Day Workouts: How Do You Break Free from the Cube?

Five flights of metal stairs. 177 individual steps. Seven round trips (more or less). Hundreds of trees standing by as we lunge, run, walk and sidestep our way up and down an outdoor staircase, metal grids underfoot and green leafiness overhead. Sound like the stairclimber to heaven or hell? Either way—at REI headquarters in Kent, Wash., this is my preferred lunchtime antidote to sedentary work. (In stores and the distribution centers, REI employees are on their feet and on the move, but it's a ...

Posted by KellyH on November 1, 2011 1:30 PM & Tagged exercise, fitness, rei, stair climbing and workouts | permalink | Comments