by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 12, 2014 | Fitness
When you exercise, sugar is broken down into different chemicals, to produce energy for muscles. As long as you get all the oxygen you need, the final products are carbon dioxide and water, but if you exercise so vigorously that you can’t get the oxygen that you...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 11, 2014 | Fitness
The most common long-term running injury is runners knee, pain behind the knee cap during running. You probably have runner’s knee if your knee cap hurts when you walk or run, particularly when you walk down stairs; and it hurts a lot when you push the kneecap...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 13, 2014 | Fitness
When you run very fast, you reach a point where you gasp for breath. You keep on pushing the pace and after a few seconds, you feel that you have recovered and that you can pick up the pace again. It’s called second wind and your apparent recovery is caused by...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 23, 2014 | Fitness
A heart attack is caused by lack of oxygen. Anything that increases the supply of oxygen to the heart markedly reduces risk for suffering a heart attack, improves a heart attack victim’s chances of surviving a heart attack and of not having another heart attack,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 9, 2014 | Fitness
Older people who move around live longer than those who are consistently sedentary, and sedentary older people who become more active live longer than those who remain sedentary (Med & Sci in Spts & Ex, Aug 2013;45(8):1501-1507). Researchers followed 2635...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 5, 2014 | Fitness
If you want to compete in sports that require speed, such as running, cycling, swimming, skiing, skating, or team sports such as football, basketball, baseball or hockey, you have to train at a pace fast enough to exceed your lactic acid threshold. Lactic acid...
