by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 7, 2020 | Fitness
When you read about people dying of “natural causes,” it usually means that they died of heart failure because they spent too much time lying in bed. When you become inactive, you lose your skeletal muscles at an alarming rate, and losing skeletal muscle...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 27, 2019 | Fitness
Whenever I see someone stretching before or after hard exercise, I worry that the person has gotten bad advice about training. • You should not stretch before a competition because stretching weakens muscles. • You should not stretch after hard exercise because...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 10, 2013 | Fitness
How can sled dogs run more than 100 miles a day for weeks on end, while humans couldn’t possibly recover from such abuse of their muscles? A study from Ohio State University shows why (Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, August 2005). How long you can...
