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Ironman Fitness: Craig Alexander On Music, Tracking Tech And Ageing 
10 Stubborn Exercise Myths That Won't Die, Debunked By Science 
How To Identify And Address Burnout 
How Sitting All Day Is Damaging Your Body, And How You Can Counteract It 
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Anyone who’s tried to stick to a workout routine knows what it’s like to have those days when you just don’t feel like it — when you feel like you haven’t gotten any results from your exercise, and you wonder why you even bother. That can be depression (or laziness, depending) talking, and a surefire way to push through that fog and get your running shoes on is to focus on how you’ll feel when you’re finished.
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I’ve recently hopped over the initial hump of getting myself exercising regularly, but I’m having trouble finding a balance between pushing myself too hard and not pushing hard enough. Is there a way to find a sweet spot where I’m working out hard enough, but not killing myself?
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Hard(ly) Working
IT management and development jobs are often portrayed as “desk jobs”, requiring mental effort but nothing much in the way of physical labour. That might be true most of the time, but if you have to lug dozens of servers down the stairs of a multi-storey building, you’ll soon be wishing you’d put in more hours at the gym.
Over the weekend, five-time world champion ironman Craig Alexander won the inaugural Melbourne Ironman triathlon challenge, setting an Australian time record in the combined swimming, cycling and running event. He chatted to Lifehacker about how music choice and technology can improve training, and the advantages of being an older athlete.
A team of researchers at the University of Colorado in Boulder measured the metabolic burn of a dozen experienced barefoot/barely shod runners and found that, contrary to current trends in running, running with lightweight shoes actually burned 4 per cent less energy than running barefoot.
Something else that science can tell us about exercise: we’re wired to enjoy it. More specifically, humans and other animals with a propensity to exercise produce more endocannabinoids which trigger reward signals in the brain.
“No pain, no gain!” “You’ll never bulk up without supplements.” “Crunches are the key to six-pack abs!” It seems there are more questions and half-truths in the market about healthy exercise than there are clear, definitive facts — but the exercise industry is a multi-billion dollar business, built partially on selling gadgets and DVDs with incredible claims to people desperate to lose weight or look attractive. Meanwhile, good workout plans and simple truths lurk in the background waiting for their time to shine. All of this results in lots of misinformation about exercise. We’re taking some of those commonly-held exercise myths to task, and we have science to back us up. Let’s get started.
iOS: Not motivated to start running? Would it help if you were trying to escape a pack of brain-hungry zombies? If the possibility of a gruesome death is enough to get your legs moving, Zombies, Run! is an app that will get you going.
We all know how bad sitting all day can be, but most of us don’t have the luxury to give up working at a desk for a more mobile and break-filled lifestyle. Nano Workout is a new site that understands that your desk and chair is where you spend your workday, and offers some helpful, easy exercises you can do to keep your body healthy without leaving your cubicle.
