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Cardio: The Fitness Metric That Predicts How Long You’ll Live

Mar 6, 2026

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15 min read

Cardio: The Fitness Metric That Predicts How Long You’ll Live

Why cardiorespiratory fitness is a stronger predictor of death than smoking, diabetes, or hypertension...and what the minimum effective dose actually is.

Brian Dye

Balance: The fitness component most people skip entirely

Feb 27, 2026

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15 min read

Balance: The fitness component most people skip entirely

Why ACSM added an entirely new exercise category—and what the largest fall-prevention review in history found.

Brian Dye

What Stretching Can Change (and What It Can’t)

Feb 23, 2026

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10 min read

What Stretching Can Change (and What It Can’t)

The first international expert consensus on flexibility—and why most advice gets it wrong.

Brian Dye

Feb 17, 2026

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11 min read

Are you getting the sleep you need?

Why “just get 8 hours” isn’t enough.

Brian Dye

Feb 9, 2026

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9 min read

Strength Training, Evidence-Weighted

What the evidence says about getting stronger (and what’s overstated)

Brian Dye

The New Nutrition Guidelines: What Does the Science Say?

Feb 2, 2026

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14 min read

The New Nutrition Guidelines: What Does the Science Say?

The Evidence Behind the Policy—and What's Still Contested

Brian Dye