Archive for May, 2009

Drop in Performance? Common Causes

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
1) The most common cause of a drop in performance in cycling, or any other sport, is overtraining: going hard when you should go easy. Hard-and- easy refers to intensity (speed and pressure on the pedals), not to total mileage. On one day, you ride very fast [...]

Muscle Soreness, Exercise Injuries and Vitamin D

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
When doctors don’t know the cause of a patient’s problem, they often give it a fancy name so you will believe they are giving you a useful diagnosis. A perfect example of this is “idiopathic inflammatory myopathy”, which means you have chronic muscle soreness and your doctor [...]

Fructose More Likely than Glucose to Cause Diabetes

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Sugared drinks are fattening because the human brain does not recognize liquid sugar as calories to make you eat less food. We get our sugar in drinks in three forms: glucose, fructose and sucrose (glucose and fructose bound together in a single molecule). Now a report from [...]

Caffeine Reduces Muscle Burning During Intense Exercise

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Researchers at the University of Illinois report that 300 mg of caffeine (the amount in four cups of coffee) reduces muscle burning during intense exercise in both regular coffee drinkers and in those who do not drink coffee at all (International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise [...]