A quick dash up a few flights of stairs every week could be a quick, easy way to boost your cardio fitness.
Exercise and Fitness
Leg ache – causes and symptoms
Leg ache or leg pain is a symptom with many possible causes, that may involve muscles, nerves or blood vessels.
Can you reduce the age of your brain?
The research is in and it’s good news. Older people who do aerobic exercise weekly can improve their cognition and reduce their ‘brain-age.’
Which exercises are the key to preventing falls?
Researched collected the data on over 20,000 people who had fallen; how they had fallen and how they exercised to find out which exercises are best to help prevent falls.
Your home and your health
There are many factors in our environment which affect our health and few more profoundly than the quality of our housing.
A pain in the knee
Can internet-delivered physiotherapy and pain-coping skills training intervention help reduce pain in people with chronic knee pain.
Tai Chi for the knee
Tai Chi may be good for physical and mental health in people with knee osteoarthritis.
Breaking from the classroom
Schools and teachers can play a key role in improving physical activity levels in children.
Running and your back
In the past experts have said that jogging is bad for the back, however that may be wrong advice according to recent research from Deakin University.
Can you exercise away the effects of sedentary behaviour?
Lack of physical activity and increased time spent going from car to computer to TV has been found to increase the risk of a number of chronic diseases and death, can we reverse these effects through exercise?
