Day: 15 July 2025

Rethinking Respiratory Limits in Exercise

Review of: Barstow TJ, Murphy K, et al., “Respiratory Limitations during Exercise,” Current Opinion in Physiology, Volume 10, August 2019, pp. 173–179. For decades, we’ve assumed that in healthy individuals, the lungs and respiratory system are “overbuilt”—more than capable of handling the demands of even the most intense workouts. Recent research, however, paints a different picture. Three […]