Chris Slate of Slate Fitness assists a client in Brooklyn, New York. When you are exercising properly by taking hard workouts to strengthen your muscles followed by easy workouts to allow your muscles to heal, you are also strengthening your immunity. Samira Bouaou/Epoch Times
Most competitive athletes follow a stress and recover training program, and so should you, even if you don’t compete in sports.
To make muscles stronger, you need to exercise intensely enough to damage them. To increase your ability to take in and use oxygen, you need to exercise hard enough to become short of breath.
Gabe Mirkin
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Sports medicine doctor, fitness guru and long-time radio host Gabe Mirkin, M.D. brings you news and tips for your healthful lifestyle. A practicing physician for more than 50 years and a radio talk show host for 25 years, Dr. Mirkin is a graduate of Harvard University and Baylor University College of Medicine. He is one of a very few doctors board-certified in four specialties: Sports Medicine, Allergy and Immunology, Pediatrics and Pediatric Immunology.
