You may practice yoga every week, but do you know the role of your brain in this practice? The proprioception system is a sensory system that tells our brain where our body is in 3-dimentional space. Our brain receives important information from our eyes, ears, and skin and sends out instructions to keep your body
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Picture this: You’re lounging at home on a Sunday evening… …planning the week ahead and battling a mild bout of the Sunday scaries. You open up the MIT Recreation app and peruse the class offerings – Body Sculpt, Pilates, Yoga, Cycling. Bam – an instant pang of anxious interest and fear hits you at the
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Group exercise classes are a great way to try out something new in fitness. You can commit to just one class at a time, which offers you the flexibility to try out lots of different formats. The classes come with an instructor, so you aren’t on your own trying to figure out the dance steps
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Maxine Jonas teaches in the Biological Engineering Department at MIT (Course 20), working with students on lab-centric classes. She earned her own PhD at MIT, and returned to teach here after a world-traveling career with BioTrove. These days, when not in the gym, you might find her teaching undergraduates how to build a fluorescence microscope
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When it comes to athletic recovery, there isn’t much that can beat the forgiving nature of water. Buoyant yet resistant and almost gravity-free, water has the power to be both kind and heart-rate-raising at the same time. Why Water Helps Recovery Water provides a good deal of resistance for your aquatic workout, and it has
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