exercise
By Tim Lightfoot on 4/18/2013 11:00 AM | Filed Under [Uncategorized], [exercise], [education], [cycling], [death rates] Popular tags: cycling, exercise, activity, safety, death
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 5/17/2012 2:29 PM | Filed Under [Uncategorized], [exercise], [obesity], [diet] Popular tags: diet, documentary, diet
By Tim Lightfoot on 3/21/2012 1:38 PM | Filed Under [Uncategorized], [exercise], [education], [human performance]
By Tim Lightfoot on 2/16/2012 1:54 PM | Filed Under [sports medicine], [Uncategorized], [exercise], [education], [cheating] Popular tags: exercise science, scientific misconduct
“Is scientific misconduct that prevalent?” This blog explores that question in light of recent high profile scientific misconduct cases.
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 1/17/2012 4:25 PM | Filed Under [Training], [Uncategorized], [exercise], [human performance], [running]
If you didn’t see it, the U.S. Marathon Olympic Trials were held this past Saturday morning in Houston.... have you ever thought about how fast these people run over 26.2 miles? What it really means to try and compete in the marathon at the world level?
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....