Speed Cardio: Pick up the Pace
When you want to win a race or transform your physique, slow and steady won’t do the trick. Sure, even-paced sessions on the elliptical or treadmill can strengthen your ticker and help you let off steam. But those workouts won’t necessarily make it easier to zip up your skinny jeans or smoke the competition at your next 5-K.
While the logic behind "the more miles I log, the more weight I’ll lose or the faster I’ll get" may seem sound, there’s a sneaky loophole most people don’t consider. Your body is a master adapter. When it gets used to a routine, it becomes more efficient, so it uses less energy. Translation: You burn fewer calories and your gains in speed and endurance level off.
"When you first start exercising, you challenge your body and it responds," says Janet Hamilton, a running coach and registered clinical exercise physiologist in Atlanta. "If you want to continue to see results, you periodically need to push your body outside its comfort zone."
Well Blog: Think Like a Doctor: The Right Test Solved!
On Wednesday, we challenged Well readers to really think like a doctor. We asked you to figure out the diagnosis for a complicated patient and to design the testing strategy necessary to reach that diagnosis; to do, in short, what every doctor has to do in order to make a diagnosis. (Source: NYT Health)
What Role Do Cytokines Play In Autoimmune Diseases?
Cytokines, a varied group of signaling chemicals in the body, have been described as the software that runs the immune system, but when that software malfunctions, dysregulation of the immune system can result in debilitating autoimmune diseases such as lupus, arthritis, and diabetes. Leading experts in the field of cytokine research present their most up-to-date findings and unique perspectives on the role of cytokines in autoimmune diseases in a special issue of Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research, a peer-reviewed publication of Mary Ann Liebert, Inc…
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