Tap out of Your Exercise Routine

Practicing fitness religiously comes highly recommended, but it's important to remember to introduce new activities into your every day routine. Part of living a healthy lifestyle means trying new things, mixed martial arts included. I'm guessing for most of you it's the same: wake up; go to the place that you love the most (work), [...]

Plyometrics: Explosive Speed Training

  The first time I heard someone talk about Plyometrics was in relation to basketball. It was a school friend who brought it up, saying that Plyometrics could improve our vertical jump. Naturally I had instant visions of sailing through the air, dunking over the 6-foot-6 monsters that stood in my way. Where do I [...]

Plyometric Training and Distance Running: Does it Help?

You may or may not have heard of plyometric training – especially if you are exclusively a distance runner or recreational runner.  If you haven’t, this is understandable; until very recently, plyometric training was thought to not be useful for distance running. A recent study from the University of Technology Sydney, in Sydney, Australia, suggests [...]

How to Use Exercise Balls for Ab Workouts

Exercise balls are large balls made from rubber and filled with air.  The thick rubber used in the construction of the ball prevents puncture, and the ridges on the balls prevent them from slipping.  Exercise balls are available in several different sizes.  Exercise balls are also referred to as Swiss exercise balls, and stability balls. [...]

Bike Riding for Exercise

Riding a bicycle is great exercise, and it is an activity that almost all ages can participate in.  However, this will work best as a family workout if your children are old enough to ride at a steady pace.  Bike riding is a wonderful cardiovascular exercise, and gives similar results as running or walking.  Although [...]

Add 1% of Incline to Your Treadmill Workout

How to make your treadmill workout closer to outdoor exercise By Elizabeth Quinn   Question: I run outdoors during the summer, but when the weather turns dark and cold I generally run on a treadmill in the gym. Am I getting the same workout? Answer: In general, you will get a fairly comparable workout as [...]

Overcome the Winter Blues

Are you feeling down in the dumps by the end of January—after months of chilly, grey skies and snow, snow and more snow? You may have the winter blues, or seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Here’s support. Feeling exhausted, touchy, or down in the dumps this time of year? It’s estimated that 15% of Americans experience [...]

Your Basic Guide to Stretching

By Erin Phelan Are you confused about stretching? You aren’t alone. Should you stretch? How should you stretch? And when's the best time? There’s a lot of conflicting information out there. So, here’s what you need to know about stretching—and how to do it safely.       The latest research agrees on one thing: The [...]

Endurance

Not all forms of athletic endeavor involve the development of physical endurance qualities, but every successful athlete will be required to withstand or overcome a variety of both physical and mental hardships in the pursuit of their goals. As a noun, endurance is the state of being that requires perseverance; it is a word that [...]

Cross Training

The concept of cross training is a relatively recent athletic application, in which a training regime includes the use of one distinct athletic discipline to build skills or fitness in another. In the not-so-distant past, sporting success was equated to the devotion of an athlete to the discipline. For an individual pursuit such as running [...]

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