Category: Fitness

Drive-Thru Supermarkets

Drive-Thru Supermarkets

It was only a short while ago that I mentioned in an article that you can get more fitness into your life by simply parking your car further away from the entrance of your supermarket. The latest invention in grocery shopping takes the opposite direction. Hail Convenience! It goes as follows: You visit your supermarket’s […]

Google’s Ngram Viewer

Google’s Ngram Viewer

Following close on the heels of the Body Browser, Google comes up with another toy, which, on the surface, seemingly has no relation to matters health and fitness, but can actually provide some interesting results: the Google Books Ngram Viewer. What People Wrote About What it does is put into a chart with what frequency […]

Training to Failure?

“You need to train to failure or the set doesn’t count” is something you often get to hear from bodybuilders, weightlifters and “fitness experts” at gyms and on the internet. Do you really? The truth is somewhere in the middle:      

Biking and Sperm Health

Biking and Sperm Health

Researchers at Boston University just published a study that may lead men biking regularly to some troubled thoughts: Biking more than 5 hours per week may damage their sperms. Only Biking Hurts The study examined data gathered from in-vitro fertilization clinics between 1993 and 2003. 2261 participants filled out a questionnaire that indicated their general […]

Exercise On Low Carb

Exercise On Low Carb

You can only lose weight on low carb diets, say low carb diet fans. And go on to tell us that athletic performance from running marathons to lifting weights is just as good when you say no to carbohydrates.