SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KRON) – As some gyms have started to re-open, many are anxious to get back to their pre-COVID exercise routines. With new health and safety rules and protocols in place at ...

PHOENIX — Oxygen saturation did not significantly decrease among children who participated in low- or moderate-intensity exercise while masked, according to data presented at American Academy of ...

“There might be a perceived greater effort with activity, but the effects of wearing a mask on the work of breathing, on gases like oxygen and CO2 in blood or other physiological parameters are ...

A new study has found that exercise performance and blood and muscle oxygen levels are not affected for healthy individuals wearing a face mask during strenuous workouts. A new University of ...

Early research suggests that face masks used to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus are safe to use even during intense exercise, and could help to curb the spread of COVID-19 at indoor gyms.

For most of the pandemic, I saw masks as a necessary evil when going out for my daily 5K run. I'd stick it on if someone was coming the other way down the street, of course, and cross over to the ...

Still, the findings suggest that anyone who hesitates to wear a mask during exercise should try one — although not an N95 mask, Dr. Epstein says, since they slightly up riders’ carbon dioxide ...

In short, you can think of this metric as the maximum amount of oxygen your body uses during exercise – V stands for volume, ...

A report published Monday by a team of researchers, including some from UC San Diego, found that wearing a mask is unlikely to cause any issues with shortness of breath or otherwise diminish lung f… ...

On average, oxygen saturation was 96.1% before participants masked up, and then slightly higher while they wore masks and afterward -- at 96.5% and 96.3%, respectively.

Wearing a cloth face mask did not cause significant respiratory or cardiovascular changes during exercise, including heart rate, blood pressure, lactate, or oxygen saturation, regardless of ...

Two main protocols are commonly used to determine VO2 max: ...