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With team sports less muscle pain

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

Synchronized and happy: the sport `s union is not only the strength but also happiness, the researchers of the` Oxford University in a paper published in Biology Letters, which, compared to the activity individual physical, practice a sport team circulates more endorphins and raises the threshold of endurance of pain.

British scholars have tested to a team of rowers: after spending 45 minutes on rowing alone or in teams of six, that measured the ability of athletes to resist strong pressure on the arm. L `exercise in itself increases the pain tolerance, but the difference between the two groups was significant: the athletes who had rowed together for as long resisted the painful stimulus. (more…)

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