athletics
Athletics and fitness are the essential ingredients for your body to live a long and healthy life.
The Porcello Effect
From the dawn of time, natural events have been dumbfounding the human race. Scientists are still kicking themselves trying to understand everything about gravity. It’s hard to understand how such a weak force has such a strong power over us, allowing the sun to wrap us around it like a ball on a string. Nicholas Cage won an oscar but is also the worst actor of all time. Dark energy makes up 70% of the universe but we still have absolutely no idea what it is. But, nothing is more misunderstood than the career of former New York Mets starting pitcher; Rick Porcello.
By Brian Rosen3 years ago in Longevity
Pints & Parkruns: Fountains Abbey
World Heritage Parkruns. Is that a thing? If not, it should be. We certainly have contenders, from Durham where views of Cathedral give runners a lift through the final kilometre, to Conwy, a North Wales route in the shadow of the historic castle Then there’s Fountains Abbey, a beautiful course around the ruins of a medieval monastery in the North Yorkshire countryside.
By Andy Potts3 years ago in Longevity
Pints & Parkruns: Hackworth, Shildon
If you’re the type of runner who likes to channel your inner locomotive as you pound the course, Hackworth Parkrun could be the one for you. After all, it’s not every route that includes a stretch of one of the world’s oldest railway lines.
By Andy Potts3 years ago in Longevity
Pints & Parkruns: Tampere
Tampere is a town of unlikely firsts. Back in 1984, it reportedly got Finland’s first ever branch of McDonald’s, some time ahead of the capital, Helsinki. Given the impact of fast food on public health, that might explain why, decades later, this lakeside university town also became home to Finland’s first Parkrun.
By Andy Potts3 years ago in Longevity
Pints & Parkruns: Tychy
I picked a good day to visit Tychy parkrun. It was the 200th edition, so there was a celebration in the air. For a first-timer, especially one who doesn’t speak Polish, that meant a reassuringly large turn-out. There was no danger of getting lost, even though the signposts around the park refer to an earlier version of the parkrun route.
By Andy Potts3 years ago in Longevity
A Personal Trainer’s Tell All on Healthy Ingredients
The info is out there. It’s just not easy to dig through when nutritional information is saturated with a tons of opinions, varying advice, contradicting advice, trendy fad diets that aren’t sustainable, and paid for misled marketing pushed at us every direction …it can get really confusing.
By Nicole Oliver3 years ago in Longevity
Are Muscle Oxygen Sensors the Next Great Fitness Wearable?
On a common preparation ride in Spain's Sierra Nevada, Tokyo Olympics marathon champion Kristian Blummenfelt could begin close to Granada, at around 3,000 feet above ocean level, and finish as high as 10,000 feet. A critical mantra for Norway's reality beating marathon crew is power control — every exercise is neither more straightforward nor harder than whatever the mentor recommends. Be that as it may, the height change makes it hard to dial in the speed. As the air becomes more slender, consistently diminishing oxygen levels imply that pulse and power yield never again reliably demonstrate how hard the body is functioning. Lactate, which requires a little drop of blood, is too inconvenient an action to keep them on track. So Blummenfelt and his preparation accomplices depend on a generally dark and unheralded piece of wearable tech, one that the group activities' researcher and Olympic mentor, Olav Aleksander Bu, says has turned into an essential device in their preparation routine: a muscle-oxygen sensor.
By John Wilson3 years ago in Longevity
