In an old podcast interview and his book Exercised, Professor Daniel Lieberman debunks the myth of constant intense exercise. He explains that evolutionary biology favors walking and rest over running ...

The Wild Center hosts a life-sized ball run through the forest in Tupper Lake, complete with more than a dozen runs and ...

Chronic stress raises blood pressure. New research from Juntendo University, Japan, reveals that voluntary exercise prevents hypertension (high blood pressure) by restoring STAT3 levels in the ...

More information: Zoe Thompson et al, Effects of food restriction on voluntary wheel-running behavior and body mass in selectively bred High Runner lines of mice, Physiology & Behavior (2024).

The team developed a task that allowed them to study how mice freely alternate between wheel running and other voluntary activities, such has opting for a tasty strawberry milkshake instead of ...

Abstract: The design and implementation of a rodent voluntary wheel-running exercise facility for use in the study of changes in muscle structure and composition arising from different exercise ...

Let’s start thinking differently about exercise. Here’s how we know. Animal exercise studies typically run rats for weeks on running wheels. The animals gleefully run every night, sprinting ...

But every time I tried to jump on the bandwagon in the past, in the hopes of reaping the mind-body benefits of running, I instantly regretted it. My muscles ached, I ended up gasping for air, ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A jury has reached a verdict in the trial of a woman accused of running over her boyfriend outside a Castleton bar, killing him. Gaylyn Morris was found guilty Thursday evening of ...

A 2016 study looked at three groups of obese mice over a 12-week period: mice that were given a high fat diet and a voluntary running wheel mice that were given a high fat diet and no voluntary ...

A new research paper was published in Aging's Volume 15, Issue 2, entitled, “Body weight influences musculoskeletal adaptation to long-term voluntary wheel running during aging in female mice.” ...