Category: Science
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Swimming may improve bone resistance to impact
Taiwanese professor Huang Tsang-hai made rats swim for an hour a day, five days a week for eight weeks, and then measured and compared their bone mineral density (BMD) and bone mineral content (BMC) with a control group. The swimming rats lost both BMD and BMC, possibly because of weight loss, but when the femurs…
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The Race Club: Underwater Pull Series – Introduction
This is exciting, Gary Hall Sr of the Race Club introducing part 1 of 4 part series analysing the underwater pull, digging into the classic drag versus lift discussion (or more nerdy, Newton’s second law of motion versus Bernoulli’s Principle of lift).Â
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What happens when you fire a gun underwater ?
No, it doesn’t just go ‘pffffhht’. Smarter Every Day via Laughing Squid.
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Drinking only to thirst (no more, no less) improves performance
Shocker, the classic dogma might be wrong, that you should ‘drink ahead of thirst, otherwise it is already to late’. This is the message of a new British Journal of Sports Medicine meta-analysis, pointing out that many of the classic studies are time-to-exhaustion tests, rather that test where you cover a given distance as fast…