If exercise hasn't been helping your mood or providing stress relief, you may be overtraining or using it to avoid instead of cope. Here are steps to take.

A new study published March 30 in the European Heart Journal looked at links between vigorous exercise and the risk of ...

In an ambitious study, memory and learning abilities improved substantially after exercise among mice with a form of the ...

A brief bout of physical exercise can create "ripples" of activity in your brain that help you store and retrieve memories.

In his latest Well Enough newsletter, Harry Bullmore explores the real barriers that stop people from staying active, and ...

First, it helps to understand the difference between the two common ways physiologists report VO2 max. Relative VO2 max takes ...

The lower-body variety will help you engage deep pelvic floor muscles during the move, and squeezing the ring between your ...

New research suggests the body may limit how many calories you burn in a workout—helping explain why weight loss is often ...

Researchers at Virginia Tech’s Fralin Biomedical Research Institute in Roanoke recently used gene editing technology to learn ...

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NPR's science podcast Short Wave brings us stories on food fortification, why some people don't seem to get the flu, and a study on how much vigorous exercise you really need.