Latest Physical fitness News
Looking for the Fountain of Youth? Try the gym and weight-resistance training
TOKYO (AP) — Here's the message from Dr. Marcas Bamman, a physiologist with decades of research into aging who preaches the benefits of weight-resistance training for those who are getting up there. We're talking 60-plus — women and men. And we're talking about hitting the gym...
Here's how you can improve your health by stopping negativity and embracing optimism
Prince Bhojwani never thought of himself as a negative person, until three trips to the hospital in one month forced him to reconsider. Before May 2018, he was a healthy but chronically worried start-up founder who regularly did 20-mile (32-kilometer) bike rides. When he suddenly...
US and Filipino forces end drills that tested their endurance in brutal heat and volatile weather
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Hundreds of American and Filipino troops concluded Monday a new combat exercise in the northern Philippines that tested their endurance in more than a week of brutal heat and volatile weather, and braced them to respond to any threat in tropical jungles and on scattered...
US military completes major exercise in Africa and works to deepen partnerships
TAN TAN, Morocco (AP) — High-ranking military officials from the U.S. and its top African allies watched intently as dust and flames shot up from pieces of the Sahara Desert hit by tank and artillery fire. They looked up as pilots flew F-16s into formation. And they listened intently as Moroccan...
Coco Gauff focuses at the French Open thanks to breathing exercises and Kobe Bryant's example
PARIS (AP) — When Coco Gauff's opponent at the French Open on Friday, 30th-seeded Dayana Yastremska, returned to the locker room in Court Philippe Chatrier, she pulled out her phone to study video clips of her 6-2, 6-4 loss to the American. “I just was really curious what I did...
New Orleans mystery: Human skull padlocked to a dumbbell is pulled out of water by a fisherman
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A human skull padlocked to an exercise dumbbell has been fished out of a New Orleans waterway, leaving police with a mystery on their hands. The skull was found earlier this month by a man using a red rope and a magnet the size of a hockey puck on a bridge to...
Not a gym rat? Here’s how to get started on an outdoor exercise routine
Between the sweat smell, fluorescent lights and omnipresent television screens, April Herring has never connected with going to the gym. Instead, she runs, bikes, hikes, plays tennis, pickleball and football — anything to get her exercise outside as often as possible. ...
Defending champion Koepka looks to deliver more PGA punishment on 'big boy' course at Valhalla
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Brooks Koepka called them “punishment workouts” — the heavy menu of sprints and weightlifting that sap the color from his face, put him on the verge of throwing up, and leave him dreaming of ways to avoid that kind of torture in the future. Those came...
The problem with leaf blowers, and what you can do instead
When I was a kid, I used to help my mother clear leaves the old-fashioned way — with a rake. These days, I don’t see many rakes in my neighborhood. It seems everyone has a leaf blower or a landscaper who uses one, often at ungodly hours, which disrupts humans as well as...
American defender Sergiño Dest injures a knee. His Copa América availability is in doubt
American defender Sergiño Dest injured a knee during training with PSV Eindhoven, creating doubt whether he will be able to play for the United States in the Copa América. The 23-year-old outside back is a regular starter under U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter. “Sergiño...
