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Cardiovascular Training vs Resistance Training: Which Should You Pick?

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Cross-Education in Rehabilitation

Cross-education is a phenomenon where training one limb, typically the uninjured one, leads to strength gains in the opposite, injured limb. This is likely due to neural adaptation.

The Importance of Adiposity

There are two main ways that excess body fat may be stored: as visceral fat, or as subcutaneous fat. Visceral fat is more harmful to us and in this article, I discuss why.

Sarcopenia and Ageing

Sarcopenia, while not a term we hear often, is simply the age-related loss of skeletal muscle mass and function. But how prevalent is it and why is it important that we learn more about it?