Sentences with phrase «than aerobic exercise for»

I did a radio interview today with Angela Kokott on QR77 in Calgary, and one of the questions we discussed was the perennial claim that lifting weights is better than aerobic exercise for burning calories.

Not exact matches

In fact, some experts believe that medium - intensity exercise is better for insomnia than hardcore aerobics or running.

The research team concluded that this study may be the first to show that for older adults who are at risk for or who have AD, aerobic exercise may be more effective than other types of exercise in preserving the ability to think and make decisions.

A 2012 Boston University study found that normal - weight women who did vigorous exercise (such as running or aerobics) for five hours a week were on average 42 percent less likely to get pregnant than those who didn't.

«Tai chi mind - body treatment results in similar or greater improvement in symptoms than aerobic exercise, the current most commonly prescribed nondrug treatment, for a variety of outcomes for patients with fibromyalgia,» the study authors wrote.

Furthermore, there's much to be said for not going it alone: researchers from Michigan State University found that women who performed aerobic exercise with a partner performed significantly better (and were more motivated to work out again) than those who exercised alone.

It's so good for your brain, in fact, it might improve your brain's function as you age even more so than aerobic exercise.

Furthermore, a paper published recently in the ACSM's Exercise and Sport Sciences Review discussed the research suggesting that intense aerobic interval training provides greater benefits for the heart than low or moderate intensity exercise.

By definition any exercise or training that can not be maintained for more than 90 seconds is anaerobic, while any relatively mild exercise or training, that can be continued indefinitely, is aerobic.

I also find that aerobic body weight exercises are more interesting than just pounding the treadmill for an hour.

(The terms «excessive» is subjective of course... to me, if the aerobic exercise you are doing is causing more damage than good, then it's excessive for you).

This would give a grand total of 50 minutes a day and in my opinion, I think that unless you are a competitive bodybuilder with a perfect diet and a superb supplementation program designed to protect muscle mass, aerobic exercise should not be performed for more than 6 sessions a week of 20 - 45 minutes a day for males and 30 - 45 minutes for females since this would put you at a risk of losing muscle mass.

Studies recommend more than 2 hours of aerobic exercise on a moderate mode and one to one and a half hour for intense mode.

To stay in the aerobic zone, you'll need to exercise at a lower level than during hard intervals or slow down when you start gasping for air.

Aim to complete more than 250 minutes of aerobic exercise weekly — equivalent to more than 50 minutes, five days weekly — for effective weight loss, suggest authors of a review published in 2009 in «Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise.»

I have been told that even with normally functioning adrenals that we should never elevate our heart rates for more than two minutes at a time, meaning that any aerobic exercise in excess of that would increase cortisol production and all the problems that causes.

«Even mild dehydration that can occur during the course of our ordinary daily activities can degrade how we are feeling — especially for women, who appear to be more susceptible to the adverse effects of low levels of dehydration than men,» says Harris Lieberman, one of the studies» co-authors and a research psychologist with the Military Nutrition Division, U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick, Mass. «In both sexes these adverse mood changes may limit the motivation required to engage in even moderate aerobic exercise.

Swimming is great for older dogs as it is not as demanding and puts less stress on their joints than other kinds of aerobic exercise.

Short - nosed breeds like pugs and bulldogs, for example, are far less tolerant of aerobic exercise (running, swimming, walking) than long - snouted breeds like retrievers and collies.