by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 2, 2021 | Fitness
Exercising regularly helps to prevent disease and prolong lives, and exercising intensely can prevent disease and prolong lives even more (PLoS Medicine, January 12, 2021). However, a study from Karolinska Institute suggests that exercising intensely too often can...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 28, 2018 | Fitness
All healthy people can benefit from some form of interval training. They can pick up the pace for a few seconds while walking, running, cycling, swimming, skiing or skating, and then slow down when they feel the least discomfort. Intervals for most people means to...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 16, 2017 | Fitness
Endurance training for six weeks in humans and mammals has been shown to increase mitochondrial content from 30 to 100 percent and volume density up to 40 percent (Front Physiol, May 19, 2017;8:319). This fascinating study shows that the exercise-induced increase in...
