APS August/September journal hot picks
...d black subjects and their response to 20 weeks of endurance training. The researchers compared changes between...training low), has been shown to improve sea-level endurance performance in accomplished, but not elite, runners. Whether elite athletes achieve similar performa...Biotechnology promises major advances for U.S. Army
...armed by biotechnology with increased strength and endurance and superior resistance to disease and aging," the report states. "By then, biosensors may be able to detect chemical, biological and environmental threats of all kinds, bio-electronics components could enable combat systems to survive in high-radiat...New study suggests honey can boost endurance performance in athletes
...oney to perform as well as glucose in sustaining endurance and power in elite cyclists. The study indicates...ignificantly improved performance and power during endurance cycling trials. In the quest for that "extra advantage," endurance athletes at all levels turn t......lung experts warned especially against undertaking endurance training and competition while subject to respiratory infections....Women with low body iron find exercise harder
...n by taking supplements can improve their exercise endurance twice as much as iron-depleted women. "Millions of...ysically work, and they can't reap the benefits of endurance training as easily. As a result, exercise is more difficult so these women are more apt to lose the...Weight training helps to maintain good health, study finds
...ctivity is good, whether it's resistance training, endurance training or a combination of both. There are some ...get from strength training that you can't get from endurance training and vice versa." Some studies by scientists elsewhere had found that weight lifting increa...UCSF study finds danger in marathon runners drinking too much water
...water before, and even during, marathons or longer endurance events. It's also possible that sports drinks containing electrolytes could help, he said. And, of course, it's important to drink water during a race, but only enough to replenish what is lost through perspiration....Honey may be the ideal pre-workout energy source
...or to exercise. This could translate into greater endurance during a workout or a race." As part of a three-ph... examining the impact of the ingestion of honey on endurance athletes exercising to exhaustion. These results should be available by December, 2000....Athletes take note: Not all energy bars built the same
... nutrients, may not always give endurance athletes the boost they expect...nown to enhance performance in endurance athletes. Instead, its effect was much like a candy bar - giving a big rush of s...Researchers learn how degradation of proteins changes muscles during exercise
...oteins that regulate whether a muscle will provide endurance foractivities such as long-distance running or cycling or will provide speed and strength for sprintingor weightlifting. The biochemical system, called the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway, determines which proteins within amuscle cell undergo degradatio...Scientists identify molecular source of friction
...s Hopkins University have accounted for thenotable endurance of Amontons' equations by identifying the molecular origins ofstatic friction. It's that stuff in the middle. "Typically, when someone measures friction, what they will report is the ratioof force to the load, which is the coefficient of friction," s......the proportion of fat in their diets improvedtheir endurance with no negative effect on weight, body compositio...id Venkatraman. "But high-intensity exercise and endurance exerciseproduce excess levels of free radicals, which may place stress on the immunesystem. ...Enzyme Presence Could Be Key Factor In Wolf Health, Study Suggests
...ve dogs, as well as those foundbetween elite human endurance athletesand less active individuals. Constable's team included Ken Hinchcliff of Ohio State University's departmentof veterinary clinical sciences. AnOhio State zoo-research program funded the work.......le training at lower altitudes toincrease athletic endurance - is not effective in athletes unable to produce asustained amount of a crucial red blood cell-increasing hormone. "We've figured out some of the differences between the athletes who do and don'trespond to altitude training. So now we hope to extend ...Exercising Just Three Days May Provide Heart Attack Protection
...n exercising. Powers recommends performing endurance exercises such as walking,joggingand cycling for at least 30 minutes a day because the heat generated duringendurance exercise plays an important role in the synthesis of heat shockproteins. However, he warns that keeping up with an exercise routine ...Oxygen-Carrying Myoglobin Not Necessary For Survival
...he rodents lacking myoglobinwas that the heart and endurance muscles were nonpigmented or almost whiterather th...ey are exposedto conditions where their hearts and endurance muscles need more oxygen. Instudying these genes, the investigators may be able to discover the syst...... This discovery could make it possible to restore endurance muscle tissue inpeople who have lost it due to con...effects of aerobic exercise in increasing physical endurance and reducing riskfor cardiovascular disease," Williams said. "When people go jogging, molecularevent......uences of anemia -- including fatigue and impaired endurance and more health problems during and after pregnanc...t iron-deficient but non-anemic rats have impaired endurance capacity when compared with normal rats. Haas and Zhu set out to determine whether mild iron deficie...