Something landed on my screen last Tuesday that stopped me mid-coffee. Researchers analyzing Fitbit data from people taking GLP-1 medications found that after starting the drugs, daily step counts dropped. Exercise levels went down, not up. The assumption everyone in this industry has been making is that losing weight makes you want to move more….

Something I read in early January stopped me mid-scroll, and I don’t say that lightly. Researchers at Newcastle University published findings in the International Journal of Cancer showing that a single 10-minute bout of intense exercise changes the molecular composition of human blood in ways that appear to directly influence colon cancer cells. Not after…

A question came up on our LIFTS podcast while I was sitting across from George Crook of HYROX Training Zones. We were deep into a conversation about the rise of competitive fitness, and at some point someone asked what actually separates a genuine movement from a well-marketed spike of interest. It sounds like a simple…

Something about this finding stopped me mid-scroll when it came across my reading list last week. Not because it was entirely unexpected. More because it finally put hard numbers on something I’d been quietly observing in conversations with clinicians, trainers, and people navigating weight loss in real time. A study presented at ENDO 2026, the…

The number one fitness trend in the world for 2026 is the same thing it was last year, and the year before that. Wearable technology has topped the American College of Sports Medicine’s Worldwide Fitness Trends survey for several years running now, and on paper that sounds like a non-story. The real surprise sits further…

The first time I came across interval walking training in a research context, I assumed it was recent. It had the feel of something new: a structured protocol, specific timing, real numbers attached to it. But the original work comes out of Shinshu University in Nagano, Japan, and some of those studies go back to…