Exercise

How to Safely Return to Exercise After Prolonged Physical Inactivity

This encyclopedic article explains how prolonged inactivity affects cardiovascular, muscular, and connective tissue systems and why abrupt return to exercise increases injury and health risks. It synthesizes current evidence to outline safe, progressive strategies for restoring aerobic fitness, strength, mobility, and function across different populations.

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Exercise and the Heart

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The Importance of Core Strength for Overall Fitness

Does Exercise Slow Parkinson's Disease Progression?

Rheumatoid Arthritis and Exercise

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Mental Health Disorders, Weight Gain, and Exercise

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Somatic Exercise: A Guide to Restoring Body Awareness

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Latest Exercise News and Research

Physical activity shows comparable benefits to therapy for treating depression

Exercise may reduce symptoms of depression to a similar extent as psychological therapy, according to an updated Cochrane review. When compared with antidepressant medication, exercise also showed a similar effect, but the evidence was of low certainty.

7 Jan 2026

Chronic back pain linked to future sleep problems in older men

About half of older men suffer from sleep problems, back pain or both, according to Soomi Lee, associate professor of human development and family studies at Penn State.

6 Jan 2026

Neighborhood deprivation predicts poorer lower-limb strength

Neighborhood-level disadvantages are linked to reduced lower limb strength and mobility in older adults, emphasizing the need for targeted interventions.

6 Jan 2026

New exercise-sensing pathway offers hope for osteoporosis treatment

A research team from the Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has uncovered a key biological mechanism that explains how exercise maintain strong bones, paving the way for novel treatments for osteoporosis and bone loss in people who are unable to engage.

6 Jan 2026

Muscle loss may persist after weight recovery in anorexia nervosa

Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric condition characterized by a fear of weight gain and reduced calorie consumption that can result in dangerous weight loss.

5 Jan 2026

Rising gestational diabetes rates raise alarms for maternal and child health

Gestational diabetes rose every single year in the U.S. from 2016 through 2024, according to a new Northwestern Medicine analysis of more than 12 million U.S. births. The condition, which raises health risks for both mother and baby, shot up 36 % over the nine-year period (from 58 to 79 cases per 1,000 births) and increased across every racial and ethnic group.

30 Dec 2025

How family dynamics can have a profound impact on eating behavior

As the holiday season approaches, many families will gather around the dinner table, sharing meals and memories. But what if the way we eat during these gatherings is shaped by more than just tradition?

22 Dec 2025

Getting a dog for the first time boosts walking and remote social ties

First-time dog owners in Japan showed significant increases in walking activity and non-face-to-face social contact over one year compared with non-dog owners. No significant changes were observed in vigorous activity or face-to-face social contact, highlighting specific behavioral associations rather than broad lifestyle shifts.

21 Dec 2025

Lifelong physical activity linked to lower metabolic syndrome risk

A new Finnish study shows that adults who remain physically active throughout adulthood have a markedly lower prevalence of metabolic syndrome at the age of 61 than those whose leisure-time physical activity remains low.

19 Dec 2025

Genes and biological networks that drive long COVID risk

This study merges causal genetics and network theory, revealing 32 genes linked to long COVID, offering insights for diagnostics and personalized therapies.

19 Dec 2025

Researchers point to mitochondria as a missing link between mental health and brain function

A stressful year leads to anxiety. Lasting isolation gives way to depression. An old trauma nags until it becomes paralyzing.

18 Dec 2025

Orthorexia nervosa links strongly to perfectionism and OCD traits, review shows

This umbrella review synthesised five meta-analyses to estimate the reported prevalence of orthorexia nervosa and examine its psychological correlates. Findings show wide variability in prevalence estimates and consistent links with eating disorder symptoms, obsessive-compulsive traits, and perfectionistic strivings, limited by high methodological heterogeneity.

18 Dec 2025

Gestational diabetes alters the placenta at the molecular level, study reveals

Gestational diabetes can cause a multitude of complications in the offspring, but to date, the reasons are incompletely understood.

18 Dec 2025

Endurance athletes experience significant training challenges during menopause

A new study finds menopause symptoms to be very frequently reported by female endurance athletes, with many perceiving a negative effect on their training and performance.

18 Dec 2025

Injuries don’t rise during menstruation in elite women footballers

The study finds no rise in injuries during menstruation in elite football, yet highlights increased severity, urging better tracking for athlete health.

18 Dec 2025

Many women suffer in silence from treatable pelvic floor conditions

Many women assume pelvic floor health issues are simply their fate—part of having vaginal deliveries, getting older, gaining weight or entering menopause. Perhaps they have watched their mothers and grandmothers live with symptoms, such as urinary incontinence and pain.

17 Dec 2025

Stress may help explain why patients with depression are at higher risk of cardiovascular disease

Patients with depression are at higher risk of cardiovascular disease, and a new study suggests that stress may help explain why.

17 Dec 2025

Brief light-intensity exercise improves executive function and mood in children

In modern society, physical inactivity and sedentary behavior have become common issues globally. This trend is also growing among children, raising concerns for their mental and physical health.

17 Dec 2025

Urine-based microRNA clock predicts biological aging without a blood test

Researchers developed and validated a non-invasive urinary microRNA aging clock using extracellular vesicle miRNAs from more than 6,000 adults. The model predicts age with about 4 to 5 years error and links accelerated aging signals to type 2 diabetes.

16 Dec 2025

AI enables rapid detection of coronary microvascular dysfunction from standard EKGs

Doctors may soon be able to diagnose an elusive form of heart disease within seconds by using an AI model developed at University of Michigan, according to a recent study.

16 Dec 2025