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With the COVID-19 pandemic, more people are wearing masks and some wear them during exercise. You might wonder whether wearing a mask during exercise affects lung function. Find out what new research shows about masks and how they affect lung function during a workout.
Tempted to skip the warm-up and get into the “meat” of your workout? Not so fast! Discover five benefits of warming up before a workout, how to best do it and how to avoid the pitfalls of warming up before exercise.
One of the benefits of aerobic exercise is it improves aerobic capacity or the ability of muscles to use oxygen to make energy. An indirect measure of this is called V02 max. Have you ever wondered how much you can improve your aerobic capacity or V02 max? Find out more about maximizing aerobic capacity.
There’s little doubt that your lungs work harder during exercise – but do they actually become stronger? Find out more about how your lungs adapt or don’t adapt to endurance training and whether lung function can limit exercise performance.
Ventilatory threshold can be used to monitor how hard you’re exercising. Find out what ventilatory threshold is, how it relates to lactate threshold and how you can use it to monitor your intensity during high-intensity interval training.
Circuit resistance training boosts your heart rate, but is it really a good as cardiovascular exercises like aerobic classes, running or cycling? Find out.
