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Thursday, August 21, 2025
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Topic: exercise

If human beings have to evolve to be better both body and mind have to be fit

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

Uses of BCAA supplements

Leucine, isoleucine, and valine are among the important nutrients known as branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs). This supplement may slow down muscular breakdown by promoting protein synthesis in muscles.

What the tight gumball on your shoulder means and how to get rid of it

Most people wouldn’t consider sitting at a desk strenuous, but holding one position for hours at a time places stress on your muscles. Enter muscle knots.

Not just sugar and lack of exercise, but salt and dehydration are behind obesity epidemic

Americans unwittingly behave like captive desert sand rats. It worked for our ancestors, but human beings can't live like that today.

Don’t have time to exercise every day? Being ‘weekend warrior’ can help lower heart disease

This UK study says you can still get the benefits of exercise if you squeeze it all in on a weekend instead of spreading it throughout the week.

Do fitness trackers, smartwatches make people more active and healthier? Not really

Fitness trackers can help increase awareness of daily physical activity. But they are only facilitators, not drivers of behaviour change.

The route to a longer life? 30 minutes a week of muscle-strengthening exercises

Researchers in Japan have found that doing just 30 to 60 minutes a week of such activities is linked to a 10-20% fall in our mortality risk.

Exercise works, but see how changing your diet can add 10 years to your life

A study says that eating healthier could extend lifespan up to seven years in middle-aged adults, and in young adults, by about ten years.

Exercise can reduce students’ desire to drink alcohol – new research

After devising a five-minute exercise routine consisting of squats, push-ups, jumping jacks, we asked students to watch an alcohol video.

How often should we exercise to get in shape?

Weight training or running — improvements only happen with a combination of recovery and repetition.

On Camera

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?