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Overuse injuries are more common in endurance running than in other endurance sports such as road cycling, swimming, rowing, or cross-country skiing. This is because of the high rates of loading on lower-limb musculoskeletal structures since other types of endurance activities are mostly non-weight-bearing.
Strength training is the most effective way for women over 40 to stay young, fit, and strong to enjoy life year after year as they age. Unfortunately, it is too common to see women back off from doing serious workouts as they age and regress to walking as their only exercise.Â
One of the traditional ways to improve your fitness and well-being is to hire a personal fitness trainer or a lifestyle coach. Alternatively, if you prefer to monitor your daily movement habits on your own, you could purchase an activity tracker. But does it work?
In this excerpt from our recently released book Stress Management, we will discuss mind-body approaches that can help you achieve optimal wellness, which is highly linked with lowered stress.
Popularity of high-intensity interval training has increased in recent years. Personal trainers, online workout sessions, and group exercise classes offer this style of training, sometimes referred to as metabolic training. But what is Metabolic Training?
Why write a book about yin yoga for people over the age of 50? The answer is simple. Yin yoga helps us become more flexible, less tense, and enjoy a good night’s sleep. Who doesn’t want to feel those benefits as we get older?Â
As we approach the end of the year, here are ten key books released in 2023. We have selected the most essential Human Kinetics titles for this year, covering yoga, strength training, sports history, and running.
Music preference whilst training is a very personal choice and can often cause debates in the gym when the tracks playing are not to everybody’s liking. The obvious choice for most people is to wear headphones and listen to their own carefully compiled playlist.Â
