Intermittent Fasting and Strength Training: The Ultimate Guide

intermittent fasting

Intermittent fasting is a popular pattern of eating. Millions of people use it to lose weight, improve their overall health, simplify everyday life, and even live longer. What is intermittent fasting? Does it work, is it safe, and how do you do it? And can you build muscle while doing it?  If you’re looking for … Read more

Strength Training For Children and Adolescents: Benefits, Risks, and Practical Recommendations

Strength Training For Children and Adolescents

Strength training for children used to be frowned upon, but fortunately, those days are in the past. Humans are meant to move and use their muscles, and children are no exception. Children need 60 minutes of physical activity every day. That’s a minimum recommendation, and increasing this amount offers additional benefits. Daily moderate to vigorous … Read more

Lifting Weights While Pregnant: Benefits, Safety, and Risks

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Lifting weights while pregnant is no longer something doctors and trainers scoff at. On the contrary, strength training is now part of physical activity guidelines for pregnant women in most, if not all, countries around the world. Key Points: Regular exercise and physical activity benefit pregnant women in numerous ways. In the past, women were … Read more

Should You Do Cardio or Weights First?

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Should you do cardio or weights first? If you’d like the answer to that question, you’re not alone. Millions of athletes and fitness enthusiasts who want to reap the benefits of both types of exercise have wondered the same thing for decades. By now, there is plenty of research on “concurrent training” – the technical … Read more

Urinary Incontinence in Women Powerlifters: New Study

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Key Points: Urinary incontinence in women powerlifters is a common condition. Female powerlifters who know how to flex their pelvic floor muscles or have undergone a pelvic floor exam are less likely to experience severe urine leakage. Women experiencing urinary incontinence during training or competition have found plenty of strategies to combat the problem. *** … Read more

Urinary Incontinence in Athletes and Exercise: More Common Than You Think

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Urinary incontinence is a common problem affecting women in general and even more common among female athletes. If you have urine leakage while exercising, you’re far from alone. Exercising females in many sports experience urinary incontinence. At the same time, it’s something of a hush-hush phenomenon, perhaps because many find it embarrassing. This article looks … Read more

Is Stretching Overrated? Strength Training Improves Flexibility

Stretching and strength training

Key Points: A new meta-analysis compared strength training with stretching and found that both increased flexibility and range of motion to a similar extent. By training all your major muscle groups and joints through a long range of motion, you don’t only get better gains in muscle mass and strength, but you also improve your … Read more

Soy – Healthy Alternative to Meat or Toxic Hormonal Disruptor?

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Soy, soybeans, and soy protein: muscle-building alternatives to meat, healthy legumes, or hormone-altering cancer beans? Few foods are as controversial as soyfoods. As always is the case when it comes to controversial stuff, the truth is entirely black or white. Soy means different things to different people. For the weight-lifting fitness aficionado, soy protein for … Read more