Sports Science
It's time to bust the myth that anyone, and that includes athletes, can outrun a bad diet, say experts in an editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Excess carbohydrates, not physical inactivity, are behind the surge in obesity.
Regular exercise is key to staving off serious disease, such as diabetes, heart disease, and dementia, write the authors, but our calorie-laden diets now generate more ill health than physical inactivity, alcohol, and smoking - combined. The evidence they cite suggests that up to 40% of those within a normal weight (BMI) range will nonetheless harbor…
Businesses have been expanding their marketing and communication efforts to engage people with their brands through sites such as Facebook and Twitter and they discovered that being open, rather than just engaging in push marketing, helps.
The more individual teams released original content from their Twitter accounts, such as score updates or player profiles, the more followers they gained and engagement they initiated, according to an analysis published in the Journal of Sport Management by Nicholas Watanabe, an assistant teaching professor at the University of Missouri, along…
If you just watched the Master's Tournament in Augusta, Georgia, you saw the second-youngest player ever to win. That is a pretty good way for a young man to spend the next year.
But for most golfers, like most young baseball players, the reality is much different.
An EPGA tour player for 12 years commented to Dr. John Fry of Myerscough College on the life: "The word that jumps in my head is lonely".
Another golfer said, "One of the biggest things you give up, and I suppose you do in a lot of professional sports, is your friends - your best friends and the people you were at college…
The tragic death recently of a young Queensland boxer raised the question of safety in the sport and whether boxing should be banned.
Claims that boxing is safer than a number of very popular and well-accepted sports warrant careful scrutiny as they often derive from overly simplistic analyses.
The risks associated with boxing should never be trivialized, but science and technology could possibly help to mitigate them.
Is boxing dangerous?
Between 1890 and 2007 at least 1,216 boxers (923 professionals, 293 amateurs) died from acute injuries, particularly to the head and neck, with subdural…
It's become a popular idea among endurance athletes that salt consumption during competition will help, but a new study finds no evidence that is true.
A small kernel of truth is involved in the belief, the authors write in the the Journal of Sports Science and Medicine - that there are sodium losses due to sweat during exercise and our bodies function on a principle of thermoregulation - but then some endurance athletes have taken that to believe they should consume large quantities of salt or other electrolyte supplements containing sodium during training and competition to improve…
Physical activity, and that means enough to generate some sweat and breathe hard, is key to avoiding an early death, according to an analysis of 204,542 people followed for more than six years.
The researchers investigated participants in the Sax Institute's 45 and Up study, which has collected baseline data on more than 267,000 men and women aged 45 and older, in the Australian state of New South Wales. The authors compared those who engaged in only moderate activity (such as gentle swimming, social tennis, or household chores) with those who included at least some vigorous activity (such as…
A short burst of intensive exercise before eating a high-fat meal is better for blood vessel function than the currently recommended moderate-intensity exercise, at least in young people.
Cardiovascular diseases including heart attacks and stroke are a leading cause of death and the process underlying these diseases start in youth. An impairment in the function of blood vessels is thought to be the earliest event in this process, and this is known to occur in the hours after consuming a high fat meal.
Performing exercise before a high fat meal is known to prevent this impairment in…
If you want to be sure you, or your child, is optimizing the chances for safety while playing hockey, one helmet stands alone.
The Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics at Virginia Tech bought 32 helmets and tested each helmet in four directions at three energy levels twice -- a total 48 tests per model. The entire evaluation process included more than 2,000 impact tests done both on an ice rink and inside a laboratory at the Institute of Critical Technology and Applied Science at Virginia Tech.
Reebok, Bauer CCM, and Eaton were not supreme, the Warrior Krown 360 was the…
It's not always about burning calories after the fact, sometimes it is better for overall health to plan before that high fat meal.
Current recommendations for young people are moderate-intensity exercise because tests had not really been done to know what kind of exercise is better. A new study finds that when it comes to protecting future cardiac health, high-intensity is better before big meals. Cardiovascular diseases including heart attacks and stroke are the leading cause of death in the developed world, and the process underlying these diseases start in youth. An…
With the season newly underway, Formula 1’s struggles are already clear to see. The exorbitant costs of competing, combined with uneven profits is especially hurting the chances of survival for smaller teams. In fact, with only ten teams on the grid – down from 20 in 1989 – 2015 risks being remembered as one of the least contented F1 championships of history.
Maintaining a high level of competition in F1 is crucial for keeping an already dwindling audience. With finances seriously preoccupying most small teams, this poses a major threat to the F1 show – and therefore business. One way of…