1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (582+ words) Exercise is one of the most powerful medicines for the heart, enlarging cardiomyocytes in a healthy way and shielding the organ from the devastating damage that follows a heart attack. Yet the molecular arithmetic behind this benefit has remained stubbornly…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (680+ words) Every morning before an Australian Rules football training session, players at one elite club file into the gym and pull against a hook or squeeze two padded plates with everything they have. Those few seconds of maximal effort, recorded by…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (963+ words) Pushing a morning swim practice from 7:00 to 9:00 in the morning gives elite adolescent swimmers a full extra hour of sleep every night, but that gained hour is not enough to close the chronic sleep deficit these young athletes carry, and…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (94+ words) In a development that could reshape how schools, coaches, and clinicians keep track of adolescent physical health, researchers have unveiled an artificial intelligence system that fuses depth-camera video and wearable inertial sensor data to recognize sports movements and flag abnormal…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (55+ words) In the unforgiving world of track sprint cycling, where races are decided by hundredths of a second and medals hinge on fractions of a watt, coaches and sport scientists have long searched for the laboratory metric that best predicts who…...