Use this tag for questions explicitly about health approaches that revolve around exercise and diet as a means to attain health.
Questions tagged [physical-fitness]
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Does ascending one step burn 0.1 kcal of energy?
The Tsukuba Express Akihabara station has 0.1 kcal markings painted on the steps up from the platform.
Is this accurate? Obviously it's going to depend on the person but broadly speaking do you burn approximately 0.1 kcal per step?
The top step is…
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Does regular exercise improve how you feel?
It's a common claim that regular exercise makes you feel better.
Walking Of The Weight
Not only does exercise make your body work better, it makes you feel better too.
More examples (out of hundreds):
Fitwatch
Trying Fitness
This sounds like a…
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Does exercise make you smarter?
Does exercising your muscles also increase your intelligence like the daily mail (and many others) report:
Exercise makes you smarter 'by boosting energy levels in the brain
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Now a team from the University of South Carolina have found that…
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Does over-training reduce muscle mass?
BodyBuilding.com and LiveStrong claim that over-training (training excessively/while being sore) reduces muscle mass.
LiveStrong says:
Over-training describes a state where your muscles are not given sufficient time between workouts to recover…
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Can Flat Feet be "Corrected" through the use of Minimalist Shoes?
As stated in the title, I'm interested in the claim that flat feet, fallen arches, or other weaknesses of the feet can be corrected through the use of minimalist footware.
A visit to my local shoe shop tells me this is not a widely accepted claim.…
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Are elliptical trainers the least accurate cardio equipment for estimating calories burned?
I find that seemingly equivalent workouts on my treadmill and my elliptical trainer results in the latter device reporting that I have burned almost twice the calories as the former. However as I tend to feel a lot more tired after running on the…
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Is exercise on a full stomach more effective at burning Calories?
This article makes a number of interesting claims about health and fitness, but I wanted to focus on this one:
In one International Journal of Sports Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism study, exercisers who ate breakfast before working enjoyed…
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Can joints withstand greater compressive forces than shear forces without injury?
It is a widespread proposition on multiple fitness websites that joints are better able to withstand compressive forces than shear forces.
For example: Precision Nutrition
and Boot Camp Military Fitness.
But I can't find any evidence that this is…
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