Author: Jack McNamara, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Exercise Physiology, University of East London

YAKOBCHUK VIACHESLAV/Shutterstock If TikTok fitness advice is to be believed, you should be interval walking like the Japanese, hanging from a pull-up bar every day and committing to a 75-day challenge with no rest days. Some of these trends are grounded in scientific research. Others are built on shaky claims or misunderstandings of how the […]

Exercise is like medicine for the heart, and just like with medication, you need the right “dose” for it to be effective. But a recent study suggests that the dose might not be the same for everyone. Researchers found that men need roughly twice as much exercise as women to see the same reduction in […]