#fitness (23 links)
- Everything I knew about stretching was wrong tylertringas.com
- Waiting to inhale: are you breathing in the best way? theguardian.com
"Taking frequent, shallow breaths is inefficient, and tends to have a detrimental effect on performance," says McConnell. She suggests two to ensure that you are controlling your breathing. Firstly, learn how to breathe rhythmically during movement (more of that in a moment). And secondly, improve your inspiratory (inhalation) muscle function.
- Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie | Men's Journal Magazine archive.mensjournal.com · Archived on
- Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011) | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
Everywhere Western ideas touch down, people get fatter. Urbanization is literally making us sick.
- Born to Be a Trail Runner - NYTimes.com well.blogs.nytimes.com
These events are trail races governed by three rules: no fees, no awards, no whining. Distances are typically 50 kilometers or 50 miles, but vary according to a race director’s whims or ability to borrow his buddy’s GPS device. There are no lotteries, no expos, no qualifying times, no triple-digit entry fees subsidizing multimillion-dollar “running clubs.” No one will urinate on you from the upper span of the Verrazano Bridge, and you won’t shiver for hours in a corral before the starting gun.
- Born to Be a Trail Runner - NYTimes.com well.blogs.nytimes.com
Allows you to track and visualize your fitness progress and goals.
A little timeline about some of the more immediate effects of quitting smoking and how that will affect your body RIGHT NOW.
- Weak in the Knees | Ask MetaFilter ask.metafilter.com
What can I do about weak and painful knees? I'm a 21 y.o. male with weak, creaking, grinding, and occasionally dislocating knees. Cause/options/suggestions?
- Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | We can rebuild you guardian.co.uk
Eighty per cent of us will suffer back pain in our lifetimes [...] Yet for decades sufferers have been given the wrong advice. Instead of lying down and taking it easy, we should be up on our feet.
- Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Peta Bee investigates whether walking is enough to get you fit guardian.co.uk
It is one of the easiest and least stressful forms of exercise you can do. But is walking really enough to get you fit? Only if you do it right
BTCV Green Gym groups meet in their local area at least once a week. A Green Gym session lasts for up to three hours. During this time you will be doing environmental conservation or gardening activities with a trained leader.
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- KNEEguru - knees, knee pain, knee injury, knee surgery, knee rehabilitation, knee surgeon kneeguru.co.uk
The KNEEguru website is a resource for patients who want to know more about their own knees - knee problems, knee surgery and knee rehabilitation.
- Burning Brown Bag Question | Ask MetaFilter ask.metafilter.com
"A "healthy food hot list" consisting of the 29 food that will give you the biggest nutritional bang for you caloric buck, as well as decrease your risk for deadly illnesses like cancer, diabetes and heart disease."