Concurrent training order is a question that comes up in every conversation. Anyone training twice a week has asked themselves: barbell first, then treadmill, or vice versa. Until recently, the answer was “whatever is convenient”. Now, the answer is more specific. A 12-week RCT, 45 men with obesity (BMI ~30). Two concurrent training orders were compared in the same session: strength…
Exercise brain cleansing — this is what the mechanism described by researchers at Penn State in Nature Neuroscience in April 2026 can be called. Every time abdominal muscles contract, the brain literally shifts inside the skull. This shift triggers the circulation of cerebrospinal fluid, which flushes metabolic waste from brain tissue. It sounds like science fiction, but it's ordinary hydraulics. And it works every time...
Cardiac rehabilitation plaque - a topic that until recently was discussed cautiously. Statins demonstrably reduce plaques. Exercise - «beneficial», «helps», «reduces risks». A review of five controlled studies (217 participants, PLOS ONE, May 2026) changes this formulation. Cardiac rehabilitation plaque regression now has a measurable outcome in mm³ according to intravascular ultrasound data. What is cardiac rehabilitation plaque regression Cardiac...
Calisthenics for diabetes isn't a niche format. A recent RCT in Complementary Therapies in Medicine from February 2026 showed: a 12-week bodyweight exercise programme in patients with type 2 diabetes reduced HbA1c from 9.6 to 6.5. This isn't a marginal improvement – it's almost remission level. What did the study authors do? The Khan team and colleagues recruited 40...
Heavy strength training for cyclists isn’t about “gaining muscle and losing endurance”. A recent RCT in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports showed that heavy strength training at 70% of maximum capacity in trained cyclists improved anaerobic power, VO2max and quadriceps hypertrophy simultaneously. The old mantra that “strength training takes away from endurance” has not been confirmed in this context. Which…
Progressive overload training isn't a theoretical principle, but a specific protocol. An analysis of NFL practices in the April 2026 American Journal of Sports Medicine revealed that teams which added just 15 minutes of training per day during the first week of camp had significantly fewer muscle strains. This is the top league in the world, not amateurs. It's applicable for amateur return to fitness too...
Strength training after 50 isn't about aesthetics, it's about whether you'll be walking independently at 75. BJSM, in their May 2026 editorial, summarised five centuries of research into one position: strength training in older age works as preventative medicine against mortality, functional decline, diabetes, and mental health disorders. The gap between this science and real-world practice is catastrophic. What...
Exercise for hypertension — one size does not fit all. A recent BJSM study using UK Biobank data broke down the same 150 minutes of activity per week into different patterns and achieved different results for cardiovascular events. The conclusion challenges the popular mantra of “short and intense or not at all.” What did the researchers do? The team led by Ahmadi and colleagues analysed data from 47,000 UK participants...
An eccentric hip abductor isn't a new discipline, but an old exercise transitioned into a different mode. A recent pilot study in PLoS One showed that 4 weeks of the eccentric variation alone reduced dynamic knee valgus in young women more effectively than the classic concentric version. Dynamic valgus is precisely that “falling inward” mechanism that lies behind ACL injuries, patellofemoral...
Critical power is the physiological power output that can be maintained for a prolonged duration without transitioning into an unstable state. Since the 1960s, critical power has been applied to cycling and running. A recent study by Wu et al. (J Biomed Eng 2026) adapted the model for resistance exercises and demonstrated: an improved version predicted time to failure with an error of 8 seconds compared to 19 for the baseline. This is...
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