by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 10, 2024 | Fitness
It is well known that taking carbohydrates before and during endurance exercise helps to increase both speed and endurance. It is not as well known that taking carbohydrates before and during resistance training for strength can increase intensity and duration of...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 19, 2024 | Fitness
Just exercising will not make you stronger. If it did, marathon runners would have the largest and strongest muscles. If you want to make your muscles stronger, you have to exercise them against resistance strong enough to damage the muscle fibers and when they heal,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 7, 2021 | Fitness
To preserve muscle and bone size and strength, recreational runners and cyclists should do upper body and core weight lifting or resistance training. Everybody will lose muscle and bone size and strength with aging. Your bones weaken progressively after age 30, and...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 11, 2020 | Fitness
A review of 22 scientific studies showed that adding a resistance program such as lifting weights to endurance sports such as running or cycling can increase muscle size and strength, with greater benefit from low volume, high-resistance weight lifting than high...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 26, 2020 | Fitness
Resistance exercise is the best way to slow down the loss of muscle strength that occurs with aging, and I believe that everyone should do some type of resistance exercise (moving your muscles against an opposing force) as part of their regular exercise program. I...
