Our body naturally starts losing muscle mass starting from age 30. If we don’t workout we lose between 3-5 % of muscle mass per decade, leading to a muscle loss of up to 40% when we turn 70. To prevent this muscle loss we can do regular exercises that are focused on our muscles. Especially …
When we think about running and running techniques, we mostly think about how the legs move, how they land, how long the steps are etc. But we don’t often think about our arms. Interestingly, our leg movements are linked to our arm movements, and they collaborate with each other during running. By adjusting our arm …
When we go for a long run, run a marathon, or go on a strenuous hike our ability to reach the destination is highly influenced by our endurance. The more endurance we have, the longer we can be physically active. We can build our endurance by doing endurance training. In this blogpost I will share …
After giving birth many women struggle with suddenly having to urinate, not being able to hold the urine until being on the toilet and losing urine while sneezing or coughing, and other ways of urine leakage. This condition called urinary incontinence is very common after child birth and during the third trimester of pregnancy. In …
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When we want to carry our grocery bags home, we need strength in our muscles to do so. When we carry our backpacks during our vacation, we need muscle strength to lift and carry them. When we climb steps we need our legs to have muscle strength to move. Any activity we do in our …
Running has become quite popular over the last few decades, since it’s an exercise that you can do in any terrain with very little to no equipment. Running has a lot of health benefits including exercising your heart and lungs, blood circulation, fat burning etc. If you’ve always wanted to give running a try, but didn’t …
When we wake up in the morning one of our first natural responses is to stretch our arms, legs and our body to get ready for the day. It is something we don’t normally consciously think about, but it’s an automatic response of our body. But why do we do that? What is the purpose behind this natural and …