NFL teams are asking the same question as weekend-warrior runners and cyclists: How much should you push yourself just before the big day? The surging Green Bay Packers have a counterintuitive answer. It’s called “Feel-Good Friday,” a recent Packers creation in which Friday practice is canceled but deep-tissue massages or other treatments are mandatory…Experts say that nearly all training within a day of a game should be focused on replenishment of glycogen, a carbohydrate storage material. Practicing the day before a game could in fact put a team at a disadvantage, said Shawn Arent, an associate professor in the department of exercise science and sport studies at Rutgers University.
Invasive cockroach found in NYC can take the cold
The High Line, a park that turned a dilapidated stretch of elevated railway on Manhattan’s West Side into one of New York’s newest tourist attractions, may have brought a different kind of visitor: a cockroach that can withstand harsh winter cold and n…
The Expansive Designs of Landscape Architect Thomas Woltz
‘I am always looking for the story of a site," says landscape architect Thomas Woltz, while standing at the north end of Manhattan’s High Line greenway on West 30th Street and looking out over the 26-acre urban anomaly called Hudson Yards, one of h…
Sandy’s ‘freaky’ path may be less likely in future
Man-made global warming may further lessen the likelihood of the freak atmospheric steering currents that last year shoved Superstorm Sandy due west into New Jersey, a new study says. But don’t celebrate a rare beneficial climate change prediction just…
