Cardiologists have spent decades tracking cholesterol panels, blood pressure readings, and family history to estimate how long a patient might live. Increasingly, many of them say a single number ...

High-intensity interval training is important, but coming back to your breath can be crucial to helping you train.

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Setting a new personal max is a great way to chart your progress toward your fitness goals—so what’s the easiest way to do that? One useful step is to improve VO2 max, which is a measure of how much ...

I looked at my health check results. Blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol. Everything was "normal." But for some reason, I get out of breath on the stairs. If I run a little, my heart immediately ...

VO2 max, the measure of how much oxygen the body consumes during exercise, has become a ubiquitous tool for professional athletes, but health experts increasingly say it's a measurement worthy of ...

Are you tracking enough of your fitness metrics yet? No? Great! Here's another one: VO2 max. It's a measurement that's traditionally been used by elite athletes, especially runners and cyclists, but ...

If you’re a fitness fiend or working to improve your health, you’re probably always looking for ways to run faster and farther, train harder and push your limits. You might even already track a number ...

Standards is a series explaining various tech protocols, looking at their practical implementation, and where we could find them in devices around us. Fitness bands and watches have thrown around ...

Back in 2023, researchers pumped the brakes on one of my most cherished beliefs about exercise: the idea that aerobic fitness makes your brain healthier and more resistant to age-related cognitive ...

Body mass index (BMI) has been a controversial health measurement for years, with critics pointing out that it can be misleading. Still, it's a relatively easy stat for doctors to calculate, so it ...