activity
By Tim Lightfoot on 10/17/2012 2:11 PM | Filed Under [Uncategorized], [activity], [exercise], [human performance], [performance enhancing drugs] Popular tags: Lance Armstrong, PEDs, USADA
I’ve purposively not touched the Lance Armstrong story because it is so tragic on so many levels. While there has always been a lot of ‘smoke’ (allegations), there never has been the amount of evidence that was released a week ago by the...
By Tim Lightfoot on 7/20/2012 12:44 PM | Filed Under [sports medicine], [Uncategorized], [activity], [exercise], [human performance] Popular tags: exercise, fatigue, activity, human performance, sled dogs
By Tim Lightfoot on 1/25/2012 3:57 PM | Filed Under [sports medicine], [Uncategorized], [activity], [exercise], [death rates]
“Hey…pssstt….Did you know that about 25% of people die in their sleep? Frankly this concerns me so much, I may not go to sleep again.” Faced with that statement, most of us would scoff and continue with our life. So, why do we get so excited about people that die after they exercise?
By Tim Lightfoot on 12/8/2011 12:25 PM | Filed Under [Uncategorized], [activity], [exercise], [human performance]
I normally consider myself a fairly rational and logical person – that’s part of my job description as a scientist – but when it comes to sports, it seems that my rational and logical side gets kicked to the curb.
By Tim Lightfoot on 11/15/2011 1:10 PM | Filed Under [sports medicine], [Uncategorized], [activity], [exercise], [education], [learning], [human performance]
At the Huffines Institute, we are thrilled because our local newspaper - The Eagle - has agreed to start porting the content from our website to their website to a new....
By Tim Lightfoot on 11/7/2011 2:11 PM | Filed Under [Uncategorized], [activity], [exercise], [diet], [death rates] Popular tags: activity, inactivity, death rates, Coke, track walk
I’ve written a couple of previous blogs regarding the need for Americans to be active – but I’ve never put it this strongly before: inactivity is killing us all both health-wise and represents a danger to our country’s financial health. According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, physical inactivity...
By Tim Lightfoot on 11/1/2011 1:25 PM | Filed Under [Uncategorized], [activity], [exercise], [obesity], [diet] Popular tags: diet, exercise, activity, weight
Runners that ate more servings of meat – a behavior that in most populations is linked with increases in weight – did not gain weight. In fact, in several of the analyses, Dr. Williams reported that if exercise was interrupted for a period of time, nutrition again...
By Tim Lightfoot on 10/24/2011 11:07 AM | Filed Under [sports medicine], [Training], [Uncategorized], [activity], [exercise], [cycling], [Parkinson's Disease]
There is hope from the exercise-front for a non-invasive treatment of Parkinson’s tremors that both protects and returns lost movement functions. A recent review by Alberts and colleagues....
By Tim Lightfoot on 6/17/2011 10:49 AM | Filed Under [Training], [Uncategorized], [activity], [education], [learning], [military] Popular tags: perseverance, talent, practice, determination
One characteristic, separate from environment that seems to be as important, if not more important in success, is perseverance. How hard are you willing to work to succeed?
By Tim Lightfoot on 6/9/2011 2:24 PM | Filed Under [sports medicine], [Training], [Uncategorized], [activity], [exercise], [human performance], [running], [shoes] Popular tags: barefoot running, running, rear-strike pattern, fore-strike pattern, exercise, activity
Is barefoot running a fad or is there something more to it? Your first reaction may be the same as mine: "No way I'll do that unless I'm on a beach.....