By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. Many exercisers like to use a heart rate monitor to guide intensity of exercise because it gives them actual numbers that they can follow. Many exercise programs and tests to measure heart function are based on the formula MAXIMUM HEART RATE = 220 – age. This is supposed to predict the…
By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. If you want to protect yourself from infections, exercise regularly and lose weight if you are overweight. A new study on mice shows how exercise helps to strengthen your immunity (Sci Rep, November 6, 2015;5:16364). When germs get into your body, you produce certain cells and proteins that attack the germs…
By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. North Americans are killing themselves by eating too much of the wrong foods. Half of all U.S. adults suffer from chronic diseases caused by unhealthful diets and two-thirds are markedly overweight. To help correct this, the Dietary Guidelines issued recently by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health…
Editor’s Note: Today’s QT – in the form of a question from Premium Member Jim O’Donnell and answer from tech guru Jim Langley – covers a couple of different issues regarding road bikes equipped with disc brakes. Namely, it briefly addresses the differences between quick release and thru-axle designs, and it provides the foolproof way to…
By Coach John Hughes By the time I reached my riding goals for the year, and with winter looming, I was tired of riding. We can ride all winter around Boulder, but it’s riding on the plains and – to me, at least – rather boring, and often not in ideal conditions. I…
