Walk into most fitness centers and you will find an area designated for aerobic exercise and another for anaerobic training. Treadmills, ellipticals and indoor cycles dominate the aerobic area while ...

Throughout my life, I had identified as a long-distance runner, competing in high-school cross-country and working up to half marathons. But looking back, I now realize my running background contains ...

People younger than 65 with higher scores on a treadmill test lived longer and with fewer diseases, a study showed.

Treadmill tests have long been considered the gold standard for measuring a person's fitness level. But a simple blood test may provide a more nuanced assessment, according to Stanford Medicine ...

Researchers have found evidence that spontaneous eye blink activity, which reflects activity in the dopaminergic system, explains the connection between fitness and cognitive function. This is the ...

A new study from the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign reveals that 9- and 10-year-old children who are aerobically fit tend to have significantly thinner gray matter ...

Longstanding research has found that exercise that increases our cardiovascular activity brings a number of health benefits, including lowered blood pressure; improved cardiovascular health; ...

(CNN) — Doing more aerobic exercise in middle age and old age may reduce the risk of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, a new study found. “Our study underscores the critical role of ...

Maintaining a high degree of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) appears to be one way to reach old age without developing multiple chronic diseases, including cardiovascular and metabolic conditions, ...

Endurance affects metabolism substantially more than muscular strength does, a new study suggests. By Gretchen Reynolds Stamina may trump strength for improving metabolic health, according to an ...