Dying Professor Teaches his Students How To Live

Lou Gehrig's disease hasn't stopped law professor Steven Gey's lessons

By John Barry, Times Staff Writer

TALLAHASSEE — Steven Gey's law students kept their part of the deal. Last Saturday morning, they swam, biked and ran in a triathlon for Lou Gehrig's disease research. They raised $50,000 for the third straight year.

In late afternoon, about 50 students [...]

Former drug addicts find new fixation on triathlons

(CNN) — When rehab and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings didn't work for Eddie Freas, he sought another way to kick his 20-year drug and alcohol addiction.

Eddie Freas fights drug addiction by putting all his energy into training for triathlons.

He swam 2.4 miles. He biked 112 miles. He ran 26.2 miles. The Pennsville, New Jersey, resident found [...]

Too Old for Exercise?

 

If you want to stay young, lace up those sneakers and hit the pavement.
New research suggests regular running slows the effects of aging, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Researchers tracked 500 older runners for more than two decades. What they found was that elderly joggers have fewer disabilities, [...]

Exercise may cut risk of various cancers

By Amy Norton
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adults who are regularly active, whether through exercise or work, are less likely to develop a range of cancers, a new study suggests.
The study, which followed nearly 80,000 Japanese adults for up to a decade, found that regularly active men and women had lower risks of developing any [...]

Runners burn more calories – even at rest

Source: New Scientist Health
THE benefits of exercise don’t stop when the running shoes come off. A new peek inside the muscles of resting athletes shows that they burn fuel even when their bodies don’t need the energy.
Endurance sports such as long-distance running are known to increase the number of mitochondria, the tiny engines inside cells [...]

Japan’s “iron man” quits – at 81

Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:39am EDT
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese marathon runner Keizo Yamada has hung up his sneakers at the grand old age of 81 — although he could be tempted back to run the odd half marathon.
Yamada, who represented Japan at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics and won the Boston Marathon the following year, said [...]

Why Winning Athletes Are Getting Bigger

Pictured are Jordan Charles, left, and Adrian Bejan. (Credit: Duke University Photography)

 

ScienceDaily (July 19, 2009 — While watching swimmers line up during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, former Olympic swimmer and NBC Sports commentator Rowdy Gaines quipped that swimmers keep getting bigger, with the shortest one in the current race towering over the average [...]

Is Your Ab Workout Hurting Your Back?

 
The genesis of much of the ab work we do these days probably lies in the work done in an Australian physiotherapy lab during the mid-1990s. Researchers there, hoping to elucidate the underlying cause of back pain, attached electrodes to people’s midsections and directed them to rapidly raise and lower their arms, like the alarmist [...]

Can You Get Fit in Six Minutes a Week?

 
A few years ago, researchers at the National Institute of Health and Nutrition in Japan put rats through a series of swim tests with surprising results. They had one group of rodents paddle in a small pool for six hours, this long workout broken into two sessions of three hours each. A second group of [...]

That Little Voice Inside Your Twinge

 

Photographs by Sumner Dilworth for The New York Times; Photo Illustration by The New York Times
 
 
A COLLEAGUE of mine at The Times who is a triathlete had a question: Everyone tells you to listen to your body, but what are you supposed to listen to?
 

Turns out it’s not so obvious.
Deena Kastor, the American record [...]

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