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Topic: Workout

Core training is the new ab workout. What’s the difference?

There’s evidence suggesting core stability training can help reduce bouts of lower back pain. However, it doesn’t appear to be any more effective than walking or weight training.

Sweat, sun, friction impact your skin. If you workout, here’s what you need to take care of

While it's important to take care of your health and exercise, taking care of your skin while playing sports is crucial. Here are some tips to help athletes maintain healthy skin.

How ‘shy girl’ workouts can help women gain confidence — minimal gym space, only dumbbells

While the initial benefit of these workouts is that they can help you get over your fear of going to the gym, they may also have more long-term benefits.

Why leading athletes invest in ice baths, saunas, red light therapy

In 'Hacking Health', Mukesh Bansal suggests recovery techniques well-suited to specific stressors or matched to specific health goals.

How many days a week should I workout?

The most common question trainees ask is how many days they should work out in a week. And most experts recommend calculating the frequency depending on goals, activity level and age.

Why you cannot lose weight by doing sit-ups?

A week of doing 100 sit-ups a day is not a tested strategy for losing belly fat. If losing weight is your aim, in particular around the midsection, you should start by examining your daily diet.

Soreness after workout makes you think you’ve done enough. That’s a problem

Instead of measuring how effective your workout has been based on soreness, try increasing the number of reps you do or the amount of weight you lift.

On Camera

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.