Tag: exercise

Pregnant people have long been told to take it easy. Fearing that hard exercise might hurt the baby, experts set all sorts of limits: “Don’t let your heart rate go over 140 beats per minute.” “Don’t lift more than 20 pounds.” “Don’t exercise for longer than an hour.” But many of those rules were derived

Everyday physical activity, like going for a short walk or playing with the kids, may provide short-term benefits for cognitive health, equivalent to reversing four years of cognitive aging. That was a key finding for my colleagues and me in our new study , which was published in the journal Annals of Behavioral Medicine. Prior

TOPLINE: Implementing a home-based exercise program alongside management strategies did not improve patients’ self-reported physical function after lung cancer surgery but did enhance exercise capacity, health-related quality of life, and exercise self-efficacy, a new study revealed. METHODOLOGY: Lung cancer survivors face long-term physical challenges post-surgery. Postoperative exercise programs have largely been evaluated in a supervised

I was in searing pain from an old sports injury. Running helped...