Your health: Cardio tennis pumps up heart rates
Add cardio to your tennis game
Cardio tennis, which combines tennis with body-weight exercises is a heart rate-blasting challenge, reports Men's Health magazine.
In a new study from Australia, the combo caused men to hit a heart rate that was 74 percent of their max halfway through and after a 50-minute session.
“You maintain a high heart rate because there aren't any stoppages,” says study author Alistair Murphy, Ph.D. of Charles Sturt University.
Want to try it? After each game, do one of these exercises for one minute: jumping jacks, pushups, squats or lateral shuffles.
The doctor will Skype you now
One night, when her face turned puffy and painful from what she thought was a sinus infection, Jessica DeVisser briefly considered going to an urgent care clinic, but then decided to try something “kind of sci-fi,” The New York Times reports.
She sat with her laptop on her living room couch, went online and requested a virtual consultation. She typed in her symptoms and credit card number, and within half an hour, a doctor appeared on her screen via Skype.
He looked her over, asked some questions and agreed she had sinusitis. In minutes, DeVisser, a stay-at-home mother, had an antibiotics prescription called in to her pharmacy.
The same forces that have made instant messaging and video calls part of daily life for many Americans are now shaking up basic medical care. Health systems and insurers are rushing to offer video consultations for routine ailments, convinced they will save money and relieve pressure on overextended primary care systems in cities and rural areas alike. And more people like DeVisser, fluent in Skype and FaceTime and eager for cheaper, more convenient medical care, are trying them out.
But telemedicine is facing pushback from some more traditional corners of the medical world. Medicare, which often sets the precedent for other insurers, strictly limits reimbursement for telemedicine services out of concern that expanding coverage would increase, not reduce, costs. Some doctors assert that hands-on exams are more effective and warn that the potential for misdiagnoses via video is great.