Cardio Training
Cardio Training
How far should you be able to walk in 6 minutes? Distance by age and sex
Your heart and lungs reveal themselves in a flat hallway walk, and the expected distance drops with every decade.
Cardio Training
How far should you be able to run without stopping? Distance sorted by age
Lace up for a mile and a half, and the stopwatch tells you more about your heart than you might think.
Cardio Training
Want to know how healthy your heart is? This fitness measure could help
You keep tabs on your cholesterol and your blood pressure, but there is a third number cardiologists now want on your chart.
Cardio Training
You don’t have to lose weight to improve your heart health, research suggests
If you carry extra weight, what you do each day may matter more for your heart than the number on the scale.
Cardio Training
Short on steps? Picking up the pace for 30 minutes may lower death risk
Hitting a high daily step count is not the only way to walk your way to a longer life, a large new UK study suggests.
Cardio Training
How far should you be able to walk in 6 minutes? Distance by age and sex
Your heart and lungs reveal themselves in a flat hallway walk, and the expected distance drops with every decade.
Cardio Training
How far should you be able to run without stopping? Distance sorted by age
Lace up for a mile and a half, and the stopwatch tells you more about your heart than you might think.
Cardio Training
Want to know how healthy your heart is? This fitness measure could help
You keep tabs on your cholesterol and your blood pressure, but there is a third number cardiologists now want on your chart.
Cardio Training
You don’t have to lose weight to improve your heart health, research suggests
If you carry extra weight, what you do each day may matter more for your heart than the number on the scale.
Walk fewer than 5,000 steps a day? Your risk of dementia and stroke may nearly double
A year of fitness-tracker data from thousands of US adults suggests the number on your watch may matter more for your brain than you think.
The real amount of weekly exercise that cuts your heart attack risk by nearly a third
The number in the official guidelines has sat there for decades, and new wrist tracker data suggests it may be far too low.
Study punctures the 10,000-step myth
The round number everyone chases turns out to be the wrong one, and the real target sits lower than most people think.
Is running bad for your knees? Here is what the evidence actually says
The fear is everywhere, but the biggest review on the question came to a surprising conclusion about who ends up with worn joints.
Heart rate recovery by age: What your number says about your heart
The pulse count sixty seconds after you stop sweating may say more about your heart than your resting rate does.
Running for the bus may protect your heart and brain more than a long slow walk
Scientists tracked nearly 100,000 adults with wrist sensors to see what a few breathless minutes a week really do.