Alexandria Nyembwe is a registered nurse and health writer. She has worked in street medicine serving populations experiencing homelessness in Skid Row Los Angeles as well as in cardiovascular care in ...

Understanding your heart rate is crucial for more than just reaching optimal fitness–it can also help to reduce injury and ...

That little number on your fitness tracker might be more important than you realize. Your resting heart rate isn’t just some random vital sign. It’s essentially a window into how efficiently your ...

Share on Pinterest A new study suggests that aerobic exercise may help reshape part of the body’s nervous system. Getty Images A rat study has found that aerobic exercise may reshape nerves that ...

Not that it was ever unpopular, but it’s fair to say that running is going through somewhat of a renaissance right now. Data released by Sport England in April of this year revealed that 250,000 more ...

Whatever your view of Cristiano Ronaldo’s contribution towards his nation’s tactical cohesion, there is little doubt that his physical profile defies his age. Pushing past the histrionics from the ...

A study challenges the idea that “more exercise is always better,” revealing how elite cyclists may burn through their daily heartbeats faster. This raises new questions about the fine line between ...

Baseline heart rate variability is a critical predictor of response to transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation, ...