Returning to That 92-Year-Old World Champion Rower
The 92-year-old world champion rower that we wrote about here back in November has finally been noticed by everyone. Congratulations to him, and to the paper's authors.
The 92-year-old world champion rower that we wrote about here back in November has finally been noticed by everyone. Congratulations to him, and to the paper's authors.
We are starting a regular feature where we cut through the noise of the thousands of new, health-related papers. We will pick a few recent papers and summarize them in a practical and not anxiety-inducing way for people trying to cut through the chatter of fitness influencers.
People make simplifying health too complicated. And in 2024 it is worse than ever.
In part I of this series we highlighted how exercise in the high-intensity domain improves our bodies' physiological adaptations
Recent research shows that we need to earlier and more aggressively reduce LDL-C levels in adults, that residual risk could be reduced much more without material side effects.
Recent research provides important insights related to lifelong exercisers and the preservation of fitness, especially VO2 max, through life.
A video-augmented version of our recent podcast discussion with the author of a paper about a 92-year-old, four-time world champion rower.
The "physical activity paradox": while physical activity is generally beneficial for health and well-being when it is part of one's job it often does not provide the same health benefitsโand can even be outright bad in some cases.