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Want to stay up to date on the latest press releases and news about studies related to women's sports? Scroll below to view all women’s sports studies.-
April 14, 2022
It doesn’t take a lot of exercise to fight depression, study says
The meta-analysis, published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, looked at 15 studies involving over 190,000 people to determine how much exercise was needed to reduce depression. Adults who did activities equivalent to 1.25 hours of brisk walking per week had an 18% lower risk of depression compared with those who...
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April 6, 2022
Is 30 Minutes of Exercise a Day Enough?
Science says you may need less exercise than you think to live a long and healthy life. In general, according to her research and other studies, the more active we are, well beyond 30 minutes a day, the more our risks of chronic diseases drop and the longer our lives...
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April 5, 2022
How This Simple Breathing Exercise May Improve Your Endurance
When you’re working out, you may be neglecting one group of muscles that can be key to your performance: those that help you breathe. New research presented at the American Physiological Society annual meeting at Experimental Biology 2022 finds the benefits of certain muscles that control our breathing may extend...
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March 29, 2022
ASICS Experiment Reveals Just One Week of Physical Inactivity Has a Similar Impact as a Week of Broken Sleep on Our State of Mind
Today, the impact of physical inactivity on our mental state has been revealed for the first time in the Mind Racei – an ASICS experiment in which regular exercisers paused their normal fitness routines for one week. The impact on their state of mind was found to be similar to...
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March 24, 2022
Study: stay fit to prevent Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s and other dementias affect more than 740,000 Canadians, and unfortunately, science has not yet found a cure for the debilitating disease. The absence of an effective treatment puts even greater emphasis on the importance of prevention, and recent research shows that runners are already giving themselves a leg-up. Canadian...
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March 15, 2022
Caffeine, beets and beta-alanine: do they work for female runners?
Caffeine, beets and beta-alanine have been widely accepted as legal performance aids in the running community, but is this true for everyone? Most of the research conducted on these supplements has been done with male subjects, leaving their efficacy in women up for debate. Recently, a team of researchers reviewed...
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March 13, 2022
Why women are gaining on men when it comes to extreme endurance events
In a 2020 study on more than 15,400 ultra events — longer than a 26.2-mile marathon — statisticians found men were faster than women less than 1% of the time in 100-mile races. In distances greater than 195 miles, women were 0.6% faster than men. ADN
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March 9, 2022
Organs have their own pace of aging, a Chinese study finds
People are aging constantly, but individual organs have their own pace. The study published on Wednesday in the journal Cell Reports reported multiple "clocks" within the human body. An international team led by Chinese scientists measured the varying biological ages of his or her organ systems. News
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March 5, 2022
Doing 30 to 60 minutes of one exercise weekly could help you live longer, study says
Strengthening exercises most benefit your muscular and skeletal health, but they could have two other big perks: helping you prevent disease and live longer, according to new research published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. CNN
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March 3, 2022
A New Program Aims to Close the Gender Gap in Sports Science Research
It’s well established that women are grossly underrepresented in sports-science research. A 2014 review of 1,382 exercise medicine studies found that only 39 percent of study participants were women. Isolate sports-performance studies, and the gap only grows: women accounted for a mere 3 percent of study participants. Outside Online
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March 1, 2022
Are you struggling with PCOS? Insights from the Apple Women’s Health Study
The Apple Women’s Health Study is a first-of-its-kind study led by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and Apple to gain a deeper understanding of menstrual cycles and gynecologic conditions in the modern age, including how to better predict gynecologic diseases like...
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February 23, 2022
Exercise Can Build Up Your Brain. Air Pollution May Negate Those Benefits
Work out in polluted air and you may miss out on some of the brain benefits of exercise, according to two, large-scale new studies of exercise, air quality and brain health. The studies, which involved tens of thousands of British men and women, found that, most of the time, people...
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February 13, 2022
Exercising right after vaccination can boost immune response
New research from Iowa State University has found a long bout of moderately intense exercise following COVID-19 or influenza vaccination can amplify the body’s immune response. The study showed 90 minutes of exercise immediately after vaccination increased antibody responses four weeks later. New Atlas
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February 8, 2022
Women’s Sport: Record viewing in 2021 according to Women’s Sports Trust research
Almost 33 million people watched domestic women's sport in 2021 with The Hundred and Women's Super League driving growth; Chelsea FC Women's Instagram interactions higher than 12 of the men's Premier League teams during the 2021-22 season. Skysports
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February 8, 2022
lululemon Releases Second Annual Global Wellbeing Report
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- lululemon athletica inc. (NASDAQ:LULU) today released its second annual Global Wellbeing Report, demonstrating the Company’s ongoing commitment to advocate for holistic wellbeing across physical, mental and social dimensions. The 10-market study1 benchmarks the state of wellbeing with the Global Wellbeing Index and explores the drivers and barriers to...
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January 24, 2022
Study reveals impact 10 minutes of exercise can have on adults over 40
More than 110,000 US deaths could be prevented each year if adults over 40 added 10 minutes of daily moderate to vigorous physical activity to their normal routines, according a study published Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. An increase of 20 or 30 minutes could lead to even more lives...
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January 20, 2022
Misogyny ‘rife’ on football message boards with fans expressing ‘hostile and sexist attitudes’, research finds
Researchers say the findings are proof of a backlash against the increased visibility of women's sport since the 2012 London Olympics and the 2015 Women's World Cup; study at Durham University shows "hostile and sexist attitudes" are more common than progressive views on message board. Sky Sports
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January 18, 2022
55% of US female cyclists started or returned during pandemic, shows research
The National Bicycle Dealers Association (NBDA), has revealed that 55.4% of female cyclists started or returned during the pandemic, as found by the trade-org in its Bicycling Buying 2021 Consumer Research Study. While 56.8% of adult bicycle and e-Bike riders in 2020 and 2021 were male and 42.6% were female,...
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January 17, 2022
More than half of women cyclists started riding or returned to it during the pandemic
Nearly 56% of female cyclists riding today either started cycling during the pandemic or returned to it after a layoff, according to the National Bicycle Dealers Association's Bicycling Buying 2021 Consumer Research Study. Bicycle Retailer
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January 12, 2022
How Exercise May Tame Our Anxiety
To higher deal with all of the dispiriting information this winter about rising Covid-19 circumstances and a lot else, you would possibly need to get out and play within the snow, based on a brand new report. The large-scale study of almost 200,000 cross-country skiers discovered that being bodily lively...
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January 5, 2022
How ‘Muscle Memory’ May Help Us Get in Shape
Muscles develop a lasting molecular “memory” of past resistance exercises that helps them bounce back from long periods of inactivity. NY Times (paywall)
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January 4, 2022
Studies show that women who are sports fans do not necessarily have to participate in more games
New research shows that even American women who identify themselves as very enthusiastic sports fans see less frequent athletic events than women who say they are less interested. Overall, a survey of more than 2,800 women found that the average woman rated herself as a moderate sports fan, with 87%...
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January 4, 2022
New Study On The Menstrual Cycle And Athletic Performance
A December 2021 study in Frontiers in Physiology by an amazing research team led by Ritva S. Taipale-Mikkonen looked at question directly: do changes during the menstrual cycle impact running performance? Trail Runner
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December 28, 2021
A Few Minutes of High-Intensity Exercise Per Day Can Reduce Your Risk of Liver Disease, New Research Shows
Whether you enjoy a daily walk or prefer high-intensity sprints, it's well known that exercising regularly can improve your overall health. No matter how you choose get a sweat session in, a new study conducted by researchers from Western Sydney University found that working out daily can prevent liver disease....
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December 22, 2021
How Exercise May Affect Our Alcohol Consumption
People who work out regularly and are aerobically fit tend to guzzle a surprising amount of alcohol, according to a new study, well timed for the holidays, of the interplay between fitness, exercise and imbibing. New York Times (paywall)
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