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June 2025 Cold vs Hot: Which Post-Exercise Bath Works Best? We’ve all seen pictures of athletes waist-deep in an ice bath that purportedly reduces inflammation and allows for faster recovery from demanding workouts. And gasped. Whereas hot baths were deemed the gold standard of achey joints – especially of the lower extremities and back –Read More
March 2025 Walking Economy & Preferred Gait Speed in the Aged Studies of gait have determined that even older runners use less of their plantar flexors – calf muscles – as they age compared to younger runners. To substitute, they use more of their hip flexors to swing their leg forward and their hip extensors/glutealsRead More
January 2024 Free Weights vs Machines: Is There a Difference? Ever since Nautilus gym equipment hit the market in the 1970s, the burning question among fitness specialists and researchers was, Can you get as strong and/or as hypertrophied on machine resistance (MR) devices as you can using free weights (FW) like dumbbells and barbells? WhenRead More
July 2022 How much do YOU know about Nutrition and Health? The following questions were asked of physicians in the January 2022 edition of Medscape, an online reference for healthcare providers. See how much YOU know: 1. Which most accurately expresses the results of a study on the risk for stroke and dementia in peopleRead More
