An underrated workout addition to your HIIT workouts: battle ropes. These long, heavy ropes can hit on all parts of the body and are trainer approved to add to your exercise routines. We visited refrigerated gym in NYC called Brrrrn, and they relied heavily on battle ropes for their HIIT[…]
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You need to be eating more flavonoids, according to a recent Danish study. Researchers looked at over 56,000 people for a whopping 23 years and here is what they found, according to this article: After controlling for smoking, hypertension, cholesterol and many other health and dietary factors, they found that[…]
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Can you make a difference in your health by simply removing 300 calories per day from your diet? It’s harder than you think, but it could mean huge benefits. Scientists recruited 143 men and women, from 21-50, and asked them to cut their calories daily by 25 percent for two[…]
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One of the things about exercise that we like to tell ourselves is that sooner or later we’ll get used to it. One day we’ll wake up and the idea of going to the gym will be second nature for us. And maybe one day it will. But if you[…]
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A new study looking at both primates and men may hold some very novel, and important, insights about how our hearts work. Humans share traits and genetic material with gorillas. Harvard researchers wanted to understand how our hearts differ from primates as humans are built for endurance. For years these[…]
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At Cardio High we like to focus on exercising for brief moments at a high intensity level. We measure the intensity using heart rate monitors. It turns out that short bursts of intense exercise increase lifespan. This is a difficult thing to prove in a lab, however a group of[…]
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We all know that a lot of good things come from exercise that we can’t see. But even then, it was surprising to see a new study showing that our molecules — 9,815 of them in this instance — changed during exercise. Stanford researchers and others took 36 men and[…]
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Image by Blue Specs Studio What if you think your fitness goal is lame? Like so lame you would not even tell a friend about it? If you sometimes play host to the voice of negativity and it’s whispering that your accomplishment is no big deal, it’s no marathon or[…]
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At Cardio High we are amused by studies to find the absolute smallest amount someone can exercise and find benefit. The New York Times made the 7-minute workout a popular routine a few years ago, with claims that 7 minutes of exercise a few times each week would make an[…]
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What is high intensity fitness? At Cardio High we choose to focus on high heart rate because there are hundreds of scientific studies that focus on heart rate to measure high intensity fitness. There are also quite a few good heart rate devices that allow users to see the results[…]
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