Fitness & Exercise

Runners have treadmills for stationary indoor training, while cyclists have rollers and rowers have rowing machines, but … what is there for wheelchair users? Well, it turns out that they can utilize a li'l something called the Wheely-X.

March 2, 2007 We’ve written about Tanita’s Innerscan previously, but the newly released Tanita BC-545 is such a leap forward in technology that it deserves

Worried about the lack of exercise you get whilst sitting at your desk all day? In the belief that rodent recreational habits may hold the solution, Artist Robb Godshaw has published instructions for building his Hamster Wheel Standing Desk.

Technology has made monitoring our health and fitness easier, cheaper and more convenient than ever, with a dizzying array of apps and wearable devices designed to improve our wellbeing. Gizmag looks back at just some of the health and fitness tracking technology that caught our eye this year.

We know exercise is beneficial for brain health but exactly how it confers cognitive enhancements is not entirely clear. Compelling new research has discovered a single session of exercise can enhance the expression of a gene that promotes synaptic growth in the hippocampus.

The Fitbit personal activity monitor is now being shipped to a backlog of customers, so we take a closer look at what exactly the device does