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Introducing The New Fitness Metrics and Elite Athletic Metrics Profiles

Publié par Ben White le

    The balance of hormones is essential for all aspects of human health and the same plays true for athletes. Whether you are a beginner working on getting into shape and losing weight, or a seasoned veteran with many competitions under your belt, understanding your hormones and how they change with intense exercise is essential to getting as much as possible out of your training. Laboratory is launching 2 new kits that will enable athletes to track their hormones and help them better understand the changes happening to their body. I spoke about why laboratory testing is important for...

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How Your Hormones Affect Athletic Performance and Why You Need to Start Testing

Publié par Ben White le

By Dr. Zane Hauck, ZRT Laboratory Growing up, I never thought of myself as a runner, or really a good athlete in general. I played every sport possible as a kid, but I was never great and didn’t play high school sports. As an adult, I started playing team sports again and eventually was convinced to run a 5k. I ended up running the Warrior Dash and enjoyed it, so I continued doing 3.2-mile training runs. For the rest of my 20s I continued running 5k races with friends and played volleyball, softball, and some casual intramural sports, but was...

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