Exercise science, resistance training, VO2max, and physical performance
396 articles
Physical therapist Jeff Cavaliere explains how to adjust training intensity, volume, and exercise choice in midlife to keep building muscle while lowering injury risk.
A 404-participant trial tests strength, coordination, and endurance training in retirement homes. The supplied abstract does not report results.
Peter Attia and Jeff Cavaliere discuss balancing hard training, recovery, and exercise selection to keep building strength as you age.
In 33 young patients with MS, higher fitness tracked with larger brain volumes and lower lesion volume. The study cannot establish cause and effect.
A mechanistic look at what sets VO2 max: cardiac filling, hemoglobin mass, muscle diffusion, and the PGC-1α signaling that rebuilds muscle. Includes how well the mortality evidence holds up.
Break VO2 max into its working parts: cardiac output, blood volume, and muscle extraction. See which part limits you, how training reshapes each one, and why the number alone doesn't predict race pace.
Running intervals by perceived effort gave the same time near VO2max as speed-based pacing, with lower heart rate, lactate and perceived exertion.
Aerobic training changed gut microbial composition in middle-aged male mice, but whether those changes drive fitness benefits remains unclear.
VO2 max is a measure of how much oxygen your body can use during hard effort, and it is one of the strongest fitness predictors of long-term health. Learn what it means, how to estimate yours, and how to raise it.
In 41 trained runners, a simulated marathon caused greater thigh activation losses and slower recovery than trail runs matched for effort.
A mechanism-level look at how the nerve-muscle synapse loses transmission reliability, why denervated fibers trigger a transcriptional program that sprouting can't always answer, and what human data support or limit these ideas.
In 13,521 veterans with kidney disease, the fittest had about half the mortality risk of the least fit, whatever their BMI. Higher BMI also tracked with lower mortality.
