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Is 10 Squats Every 45 Minutes Really as Effective as They Claimed? Here’s What the Study Actually Tested

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A claim has been going around: do 10 squats every 45 minutes and it lowers your blood sugar more than a 30-minute walk. It’s specific enough to sound like real science, and it is — it just isn’t what the number says. The study behind it never counted reps. I sit for a living and

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Most People Get the Soleus Pushup Wrong — Including Me

There is a muscle in your lower leg that makes up about 1% of your body weight and can, under the right conditions, burn more carbohydrate than every other muscle in your body combined. That is not a wellness claim. It comes from a 2022 study at the University of Houston, published in the journal