Exercise

Is CO2 Making You Fat?

There’s a never-ending stream of scientific explanations for obesity. The latest suggests that CO2 contributes to our weight gain and that as we pump more of it in to the atmosphere, the fatter we become. But can that really be the case? The theory is favored by Lars-Georg Hersoug, a scientist from Denmark. He suggests…

Health Jamie Condliffe Mar 14

Spring-Mounted Training Board Provides an Easy Way To Snap Your Ankle In the Off-Season

If board sports are your thing, but the current weather and conditions aren’t ideal for snowboarding, skateboarding, or surfing, this spring-mounted Gyroboard alternative promises to keep you in shape and let you train all year round. It’s reminiscent of the springy rides you’d find at a playground, but instead of a cartoonish character on top…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 10

Stop Complicating a Simple Obesity Solution: Eat Less, Exercise More

Today an article in The Atlantic discusses “obesogens:” environmental contaminants that some researchers believe are making people fat. Obesogens? Great, another meaningless buzzword Americans can discuss at dinner parties instead of facing facts: eating too much and not exercising enough is what’s making them fat. Period. We are always looking for a way to ignore…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski Mar 8

To Lose Weight, Just Drink a Gallon of Coffee

There’s no shortage of scientific research pointing to exercise being good for you, but if you’re just trying to lose weight you probably want all the help you can get. Now, research suggests that caffeine activates the same fat-busting genes as an hour’s exercise. Somebody, pass the espresso. A team of researchers from the Karolinska…

Health Jamie Condliffe Mar 7

Who Wants to Eat Anything, Stay Thin, and Never Exercise?

A compound in your brain that behaves similarly to pot holds the secret to everyone’s fantasy: being able to eat whatever you want and not exercise while staying healthy and not gaining weight. What a world that would be! So here’s hoping an experiment recently performed in mice can be easily translated to humans. But…

Health Kristen Philipkoski Mar 6

Why Walking Is the Best Exercise

Scientists have known for a while that merely walking more can massively decrease the risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes, but they haven’t really known why. But now, by forcing healthy people to act like slobs, they’re starting to reveal why walking is the best thing you can do for your body. The…

Health Jamie Condliffe Mar 2

Exercise Makes You Smarter By Giving Your Brain Extra Energy

Everyone knows exercise is good for you, and studies have previously shown that it can boost learning and even stave off dementia in later life—though nobody knew why. New research suggests, though, that it’s because the brain takes advantage of energy delivery systems just as much as your muscles. When you exercise, your muscles create…

Health Jamie Condliffe Feb 29

You’ll Splash, Not Crash, When You Fall Off This Climbing Wall

There’s no reason to fear plummeting to your death-or awkward crotch harnesses-with AquaSport’s climbing walls. They’re installed on the edge of a pool so if you lose your grip or footing, you’re guaranteed a safe splashdown. The color coded foot and hand holds indicate the difficulty of the ascent, but the highest you’ll get is…

Health Andrew Liszewski Feb 23

Scientists Find the Bare Minimum Exercise You Need to Get Fit

We all know we need to exercise to stay fit and healthy, but sometimes it’s difficult to find the time. Don’t worry: scientists have worked out the minimum amount of exercise you can get away with in order to get fit. The New York Times reports that a group of researchers are turning health and…

Health Jamie Condliffe Feb 16

Cyclists Prefer Bikes to Sex

In a recent survey carried out by Bicycling magazine, 50 per cent of men and 58 per cent of women said that, if they had to choose between bikes or sex… they’d choose the bikes. Man, their sex lives must be bad. [Bicycling; Image: Martin Pettitt]

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Feb 10

Everything You Need To Exercise Without Getting Off the Couch

Just because your life revolves around your living room couch—whether you whittle away the hours playing video games, blogging, or buying and selling action figures on eBay—doesn’t mean you can’t have the body of a chiseled supermodel. Many will try and tell you that heading to the gym and using complicated workout equipment is the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 7

GymPact Charges You for Being a Lazy Bum (and Pays You to Get Pumped)

If you have a gym membership, there’s a good chance you’re just throwing your money away. It’s not because gyms are bad places. It’s because you’re a lazy slob who signed up and now has about a thousand excuses why you shouldn’t go. If you’re as unmotivated as I am about pumping iron, GymPact’s monetary…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Jan 3

How to Burn Off the Thanksgiving Fat

Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of food and kinship and gluttony. But that also means a big step backward in your battle against the bulge (in your waistline—because you are quite fat). But don’t worry! Here are a few tips to make sure you more or less still fit in your clothes once the holiday’s…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Nov 26

You Are All Getting Cancer!

What else is new, right? But seriously, if like many of us you sit on your ass all day, your chances of cancer are higher than if you peppered your workday with, say, a Nerf war or a few push-ups. I know. “Sitting in a chair” causes cancer sounds ridiculous. Bit it is really bad…

Health Kristen Philipkoski Nov 3

Gadgets Will Not Make You Thin

Motorola released a pretty interesting new fitness device yesterday. It’s called the MotoACTV, and it tracks your workouts, calories burned, and heart rate. It looks fantastic! But it’s not going to shave any pounds off that jiggling frame of yours. https://gizmodo.com/motoactv-motorolas-fitness-focused-nano-twin-update-5850919/ If you look back, just ten years ago, heart rate monitors were still relatively…

Tech News Mat Honan Oct 19

City Cyclists Should Be Wearing Respirator Gas Masks

Cyclists traveling the car-filled streets of a city have one more hazard to worry about – black carbon from air pollution. A recent study looked at the the respiratory health of Londoners who bike or walk to work. The team collected sputum samples and measured the amount of black carbon each group inhaled. They discovered…

Tech News Kelly Sep 29

The Free Flexor Weight Looks So Much Like Masturbating, It Can’t Be Real

OK. Seriously. The Shake Weight was one thing. But I can understand how that was just an innocent female-oriented workout aid that was appropriated by immature internet cads. But this thing? There’s no way it’s not overtly about jerking off. The Free Flexor is just a pliant cord with two weights on the end. They…

Tech News Sam Biddle Sep 29

Pandora’s New Workout Stations Will Pump You the Hell Up

Yeah! Thursday! Burn your calves! The weather is shitty outside! But I’ve got 12 stations of ass-maneuvering, tummy-crunching, algorithmically determined jams! Pandora’s suite of exercise tunes almost makes me want to exercise—I’m sort of exercising in my chair! The dozen stations cover a multitude of different sweat scenarios. 80’s Cardio is great for flailing your…

Tech News Sam Biddle Sep 8

Two missing genes could explain why you don’t want to exercise

Laziness might not be the only reason why some people have so much trouble staying physically fit. Removing just two genes from mice completely saps them of their will to exercise, and a similar process might exist in humans. Researchers at McMaster University performed an experiment on a group of healthy, specially-bred mice. While the…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Sep 6

The Only Thing This Fitness Monitor Can’t Track Is Its Own Bullshit

New fitness monitors always promise the world. Tracks everything! Keeps a log of your diet! Tells you how many calories you’re burning! Weighs your baby unicorn for you! Please, I’ve been hurt before… The NewYu fitness monitor is making all kinds of bold claims. It senses what activity you’re doing just by tracking the motions…

Tech News Brent Rose Aug 11

Is CO2 Making You Fat?

Spring-Mounted Training Board Provides an Easy Way To Snap Your Ankle In the Off-Season

Stop Complicating a Simple Obesity Solution: Eat Less, Exercise More

To Lose Weight, Just Drink a Gallon of Coffee

Who Wants to Eat Anything, Stay Thin, and Never Exercise?

Why Walking Is the Best Exercise

Exercise Makes You Smarter By Giving Your Brain Extra Energy

You’ll Splash, Not Crash, When You Fall Off This Climbing Wall

Scientists Find the Bare Minimum Exercise You Need to Get Fit

Cyclists Prefer Bikes to Sex

Everything You Need To Exercise Without Getting Off the Couch

GymPact Charges You for Being a Lazy Bum (and Pays You to Get Pumped)

How to Burn Off the Thanksgiving Fat

You Are All Getting Cancer!

Gadgets Will Not Make You Thin

City Cyclists Should Be Wearing Respirator Gas Masks

The Free Flexor Weight Looks So Much Like Masturbating, It Can’t Be Real

Pandora’s New Workout Stations Will Pump You the Hell Up

Two missing genes could explain why you don’t want to exercise

The Only Thing This Fitness Monitor Can’t Track Is Its Own Bullshit

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