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- Physiology of Sport and Exercise, Fifth Edition (Enhanced Version)
Read a sample or download Physiology of Sport and Exercise, Fifth Edition (Enhanced Version) by W. Larry Kenney, Jack H. Wilmore & David L. Costill with iBooks.
- A Brief History Of The Burpee – Huffington Post
A Brief History Of The Burpee Huffington Post At a time when exercise science was mostly concerned with measuring the fitness of already fit people, Burpee wanted a simple way to assess the fitness of everyday folks (starting with the new members…
- Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger?
When you look at sporting achievements over the last decades, it seems like humans have gotten faster, better and stronger in nearly every way.
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- How sports science is changing the way the London Marathon is run
Better kit, better training and better nutrition are all playing a part in the faster finishing times now being recorded
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- Melissa Breen breaks national 100m sprint record
Sprinter Melissa Breen has broken Melinda Gainsford-Taylor’s 20-year-old national record for the 100m.
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- Fitness Trackers Are Useless Without Real-Time, Personalized Analysis
Trendy fitness trackers need to invest in immediacy by providing useful information, ideally in real time, so we can optimize our wealth of data into action.
- High-intensity strength training helps Parkinson's patients – Dalje.com
High-intensity strength training helps Parkinson’s patients Dalje.com Bamman devised a strenuous exercise regimen for the participants — three sets of eight to 12 repetitions of a variety of strength training exercises, such as leg or overhead…
- Moderate exercise can give same result as high intensity – Fraser Coast Chronicle
Moderate exercise can give same result as high intensity Fraser Coast Chronicle According to a study published in the American Journal of Physiology, scientists found that moderate daily exercise of only 30 minutes a day of aerobic type exercise…
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- Cuyahoga CC Tests 3D Simulation App in Anatomy Class — Campus Technology
A community college in Cleveland, OH has just begun testing a new interactive 3D simulation intended to help its students learn how stress affects the body.
- New imaging method 'predicts' heart attack risk
Scientists have created an imaging technique that can detect which patients are at high risk of heart attack. The device ‘lights up’ fatty plaques in the arteries that may rupture.
- 7 Wonderful iPad Apps to Learn about Human Body in 3D ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
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- Rising body mass index increases heart risk – Vision – ANU
Research at the Australian National University has found increased body mass index significantly increases the risk of heart disease – regardless of exercise level, smoking status and whether or not someone has diabetes.
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- Learning to Learn: fighting cognitive biases
Critical thinking is an increasingly important skill that has been overlooked by many as information becomes more accessible and superfluous.
- Body mass may be more nurture than nature – UQ News Online – The University of Queensland
The influence of genes on body mass index scores is substantially lower than previously thought, researchers at The University of Queensland have found.
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- Nike Unveils Smarter FuelBand SE, Nike+ Move App Coming Next Month | Cult of Mac
Today Nike unveiled its new FuelBand SE, the biggest upgrade to its fitness tracker ever. Cosmetically, the FuelBand SE sports new color accents and a rubb
- Fitbit Force Is the Smartest Fitness Tracker Yet [REVIEW]
The Fitbit Force isn’t even on the market just yet, but it’s already making all other fitness wearables look out of date.
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- This Virtual Assistant Is Like Siri For Doctors And Patients
A new virtual assistant app is on the market, and it’s designed for doctors to make sure patients adhere to their treatments.
Like a Siri for the health world, Alme for Healthcare is promoting itself as a virtual assistant for disease management, and the app backend uses voice commands and natural language processing to bridge the gap between health-care practitioners and their patients.
Fred Brown, CEO of app creators Next IT, told Fast Company that the product serves as a “disease management system for patients to handle chronic disease.”
“We want to make the sharing of data between applications more conversational,” Brown added. Alme for Healthcare’s backend can be integrated into Android, HTML 5, iOS, and even hologram adaptations for hospital lobbies. Individual users go through a validation process under HIPAA rules and the app gives them daily reminders of treatment needs and tracks specific data. Health care practitioners also get metrics on adherence and patient behavior through the app.
- The Fitbit Force Hands-On: Ahh, This Is More Like It
Fitbit did a lot of things very right when it made the One, its tiny activity-tracking pod. But then the company–caving to peer pressure from the likes of Nike–made the Fitbit Flex wristband.
- This Is the Average Man's Body
- Smoking is more deadly than thought: study
A four-year analysis of 200,000 Australian health records shows that even moderate smoking is a major killer and more deadly than previously thought.
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- Google Earth Meets The Body: BioDigital Gets $4M To Bring Its 3-D, Virtual Anatomy & Health Platform To Every Browser | TechCrunch
While the film is extremely compelling, it turns out that there’s actually a better way to learn about and visualize the human body than by watching Osmosis Jones on repeat.
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- Infographic: Are you ready for sensors in healthcare? | mHealthNews
From FitBit to Misfit, the market for wearable sensors is increasing dramatically – and not just for personal fitness and wellness.
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- A job that lets you hang with sports stars – CNBC.com
“A job that lets you hang with sports stars CNBC.com Data analyst has already been dubbed the “sexiest job” of the 21st century.” - Harvey's Injury Shows Pitchers Have a Speed Limit – New York Times
“New York Times Harvey’s Injury Shows Pitchers Have a Speed Limit New York Times Marshall, 70, has a Ph.D. in exercise physiology.” - Stress test could give thousands an early warning of obesity risk – The Australian
“Stress test could give thousands an early warning of obesity risk The Australian If the test is successful, it could enable people to change lifestyle factors such as diet and exercise before it’s too late.” - Computer screens now the norm in today's sport science and technology – StarPhoenix
“StarPhoenix Computer screens now the norm in today’s sport science and technology StarPhoenix “What he’s trying to do is improve recovery, which is really important for biathletes, going from a high-intensity exercise and bringing it down as low as…”
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- Closer Look at Hayward's Lingering Hamstring Injury
Hamstring injuries occur so frequently that fans sometimes tend to brush them off as insignificant, but Green Bay Packers defensive back Casey Hayward ‘s is anything but…
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- National sport centre site picked
Scotland’s £30m National Performance Centre for Sport will be located at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
- Professor Tim Noakes: The Exercise & Carbohydrate Myth
Why Tim famously changed his views on carb’ loading for running. Is running effective for weight loss? His thoughts on CrossFit & if low carb’ applies?
- Hexoskin is putting the wearable in wearable computing with a sensor-packed shirt
Feeling like you just aren’t quite quantifying enough of your daily life? Check out Hexoskin, a maker of connected tanks that track your heart and respiration as well as your steps.
- Will An App A Day Keep The Doctor Away? The Coming Health Revolution
By Stephanie Tilenius, an executive in residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. With a big assist from technology, Americans are driving a major transformation of the nation’s health care system.
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- A graphic reason to support health promotion –
This election has prompted the Australian Health Promotion Association to develop a brand new ‘infographic’ that clearly demonstrates how our tiny health promotion workforce (existing on 0.4% of health funding) is saving Australia billions of…
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- Medical devices that become obsolete against a smartphone
We have already looked at how a mobile phone can be used as a tool for helping and monitoring people with certain medical conditions (like for example diabetes patients or people with reduced eyesight), but more and more apps and accessories are appearing in the mHealth field, which make use of the features of smartphones in order to replace other traditional medical devices.The advantage of this type of services and tools is obvious: a considerable cost reduction for medical devices, which not only allows anybody to obtain such devices to monitor a patient at home, but it also makes it less difficult to provide them in developing countries, regions in crisis or areas, where the closest hospital may be hundreds of kilometers away.Example 1 : SpiroSmart, your Phone turned into a SpirometerA spirometry may be one of the tests most frequently done on asthma patients and others suffering from breathing problems, fundamentally measuring lung capacity and volume. Although portable spirometers do exist, wouldn’t it be great to be able to take these measures wherever you are with your mobile phone?This is exactly what a group of researchers from Washington University enables you to do with SpiroSmart, an application which – without any additional accessories – allows you to use your smartphone in place of a spirometer. It works in a very simple way: All you need to do, is blow towards the telephone allowing it to analyze the sound frequency. The application uses the user’s windpipe and voice chords to replace the tubes in traditional spirometers.Example 2: MobiUS, Pocket size Ultrasound ScannerNumerous medical examinations are based on ultrasound scans, that create two- or three-dimensional images of what is going on inside our body (like the womb of a pregnant woman, to give you a very common example). How is it possible to realize these kinds of exams without carrying a big and heavy piece of machinery? Pocket Scanners are one possible option, but they are quite pricy. MobiUS is another possibility.MobiUS, has already received approval from the american FDA to be sold on the mHEalth market. It is a accessory which you can connect to a smartphone or tablet computer and slide it over the part of the patient’s body to be analyzed. The images obtained by the ultrasound accessory appear on our smartphone screen and may be stored or shared immediately with other doctors. And the accessory works with batteries, which makes it possible to use it in areas where no electrical grid is available.
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- BMI not accurate enough: Obesity/mortality paradox demonstrates urgent need for more refined metabolic measures
Researchers point out that the body mass index (BMI), based on the weight and height, is not an accurate measure of body fat content and does not account for critical factors that contribute to health or mortality, such as fat distribution,…
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- Return of Serve Analysis: How Rafael Nadal Won a Masters 1000 Final Without Creating a Single Break Point – The Changeover
An in-depth look into the return of serve performance of Rafael Nadal and John Isner during the 2013 Cincinnati Final. (I did a Return of Serve analysis for the Nadal-Isner Cincy F.
- Watermelon 'boosts athletic performance and improves recovery' – Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk Watermelon ‘boosts athletic performance and improves recovery’ Telegraph.co.uk The findings may mean that natural ingredients could be used instead of drugs, they hope, suggesting future research should look at the levels of the…
- Pedal Power: A Closer Look at Cycling Injuries and Biomechanics
A rider’s position needs to be optimal for his or her comfort, ability and biomechanical limitations. The Pedal Strike. Split into two phases, the pedal strike involves complex timing of the lower limb muscles at differing points to …
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