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...other very exciting addition is the interval training program. Dr. Joe Signorelli from the University of Miami, the senior exercise physiologist there, taught me about interval exercise - which I had always heard of for elite athletes. I knew that marathoners and cyclists and swimmers did episodes of high-intensity, not just volume of exercise, even though their events were endurance events, and that that improved their fitness and their performance. I didn't appreciate how it could be applied to the rest...
Locomotor training was a long time in coming. In the 1970s, investigators at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm first discovered that paralyzed kittens could be trained to step by placing their back feet on a surface and manually walking them. In 1997, physiologist Reggie Edgerton, who had conducted the kitten studies and had since moved to UCLA, got Reeve onto a treadmill and put him through some therapeutic paces. Two years later, Reeve's foundation launched its NeuroRecovery Network, sponsoring locomotor work at seven hospitals and therapy centers across the country, including the Frazier Rehab Institute in Louisville, Ky., where...
...first people who got a look at Chase when he arrived at Frazier was physiologist Susan Harkema. She rigged him into a baby-size treadmill harness and walked him for 30 minutes as he howled and protested. It was as she was taking him down that he delivered his surprising kick. Treadmill work alone did not get Chase moving. He receives traditional therapy to get his legs bearing as much weight as possible, to help him recognize sensory cues and to teach him such basics as how to swing his arms when he walks. And he has one more thing...
...pity that a story with so much potential for moral indignation and bad sheep puns (ewegenics!) turns out to be wrong. To be sure, a group of researchers led by physiologist Charles Roselli of Oregon Health & Science University has killed about 55 sheep, homosexual and heterosexual, in order to study the neurological basis of sexual attraction. They have confirmed that test sheep are gay by allowing them to pick among males and females that have been restrained in stanchions to await sexual intercourse...
...tricep dips, push-ups and the like. Your muscles fatigue quicker, so the exercise routine will be shorter, but you're still not making the plates do all the work. "This is not a magic bullet that helps people lose weight without doing anything," says Cedric Bryant, chief exercise physiologist for the American Council on Exercise. "If you are a healthy individual, wbv training should be a supplement to a sensible diet and exercise program...