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Sestrins: The Natural Proteins That Could Mimic Effects Of Exercise
What if when you’re injured, you could take a supplement that would allow you to get many of the benefits of exercise? Something that would slow down the atrophy of muscles and replicate the metabolic benefits of your normal activities....
Sticking to your home workouts
It can be hard to force yourself to train alone, especially if you're not used to it. Here's a home workout and some advice for staying motivated.
At times of crisis, feelings of stress and anxiety are normal so it’s particularly important to actively look after your mental health. One way of doing this is to make your environment feel safe and calming, something that can be...
Stop trying to boost your immune system
Your immune system doesn’t need boosting, it needs balance. Here’s some tips, with actual evidence behind them, for doing just that.
6 Resistance Band Warm-Up Exercises
We all know the importance of implementing a thorough warm-up routine to minimise injury risk and increase performance. Resistance bands are a great piece of equipment to incorporate into that process. Here are six resistance band exercises to try before...
How Accurate Are Wrist-Based Heart Rate Monitors?
Fitbits and Garmins are everywhere nowadays. They let you track a whole number of fitness-oriented goals, from daily step count to sleep and VO2 max, but one of their main selling points is heart rate data. So just how accurate...
A Day In The Life of a Competitive CrossFitter
I’ve always led an ‘active lifestyle’ and enjoyed hockey, cross country, karate, and OCRs competitively before finding CrossFit. I’d been running to-and-from a commercial gym, and weight training when I got there for a couple of years before I attended...
Mat Fraser’s History With Alcoholism
Having won the CrossFit Games for the last four years running, Mat Fraser is widelyacknowledged as the fittest man on earth. The 30-year-old has a level of talent only possessed by a rare breed of athlete, but he’s overcome some...
Acupuncture can seem like a mystical art to some, but it’s become one of the most common treatments used for recovery and pain relief. With that popularity, though, there is still a widespread lack of knowledge about how needle therapy...