April 27, 2022

PrimaLoft Publishes its First Relentlessly Responsible™ Report for 2021

/OUTDOOR SPORTSWIRE/ - PrimaLoft, Inc., the leader in advanced material technology, published its first Relentlessly Responsible™ Report showcasing the company’s philosophy of using innovation and performance to drive sustainability. The report highlights key achievements in recent years, with an emphasis on 2021, and gives a peek into the vision for...

April 14, 2022

It doesn’t take a lot of exercise to fight depression, study says

The meta-analysis, published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, looked at 15 studies involving over 190,000 people to determine how much exercise was needed to reduce depression. Adults who did activities equivalent to 1.25 hours of brisk walking per week had an 18% lower risk of depression compared with those who...

April 11, 2022

Pickleball Startup, Baddle, Announces Multiyear Agreement for New Line of National Hockey League Branded Pickleball Gear

Los Angeles (April 11, 2022) /OUTDOOR SPORTSWIRE/ - Baddle, a rapidly growing pickleball brand launched in 2021, is expanding its portfolio with an exclusive multiyear licensing agreement to produce National Hockey League-branded pickleball gear. NHL-branded pickleball paddles, paddle covers and grips will be available in Q2 (with wholesale preorders starting...

April 5, 2022

How This Simple Breathing Exercise May Improve Your Endurance

When you’re working out, you may be neglecting one group of muscles that can be key to your performance: those that help you breathe. New research presented at the American Physiological Society annual meeting at Experimental Biology 2022 finds the benefits of certain muscles that control our breathing may extend...

March 28, 2022

Nantahala-Pisgah Forest Partnership Objects to Forest Service Plan

Asheville, NC – March 28, 2022 /OUTDOOR SPORTSWIRE/ - The Nantahala-Pisgah Forest Partnership, which represents stakeholders from across the full spectrum of public land interests—including recreation, forest products, conservation, wildlife, hunting, and fishing—has filed an Objection to the draft management plan for the Nantahala and Pisgah National forests, which was issued...

March 24, 2022

Study: stay fit to prevent Alzheimer’s disease

Alzheimer’s and other dementias affect more than 740,000 Canadians, and unfortunately, science has not yet found a cure for the debilitating disease. The absence of an effective treatment puts even greater emphasis on the importance of prevention, and recent research shows that runners are already giving themselves a leg-up. Canadian...

March 11, 2022

57Hours Surveys Network of Mountain Guides to Highlight the Effects of Climate Change

New York, NY (March 11, 2022) /OUTDOOR SPORTSWIRE/ - 57Hours recently surveyed its network of mountain guides to compile testimonials of climate change in the mountains. The goal of the survey was to gain an understanding of the ways in which guides—who spend their lives and careers in the mountains—have...

March 9, 2022

Organs have their own pace of aging, a Chinese study finds

People are aging constantly, but individual organs have their own pace. The study published on Wednesday in the journal Cell Reports reported multiple "clocks" within the human body. An international team led by Chinese scientists measured the varying biological ages of his or her organ systems. News

February 23, 2022

Exercise Can Build Up Your Brain. Air Pollution May Negate Those Benefits

Work out in polluted air and you may miss out on some of the brain benefits of exercise, according to two, large-scale new studies of exercise, air quality and brain health. The studies, which involved tens of thousands of British men and women, found that, most of the time, people...

February 2, 2022

Treewell and Snow Immersion Safety: Backcountry Access releases informative tree well rescue video.

Boulder, Colo./OUTDOOR SPORTSWIRE/ - Backcountry Access (BCA) announces a new educational video, “Treewell and Snow Immersion Safety,” that illustrates what you can do if trapped in a tree well in deep snow when skiing or snowboarding. This new video features how to manage tree wells, an often-overlooked danger both in...