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Effects of Exercise on the Cardiovascular System
February 9, 2009 | 16 Comments
Cardiovascular (CV) means heart and lungs. CV exercise is anything that makes the heart and lungs work harder. You can choose the intensity and you can choose the timing based on what you want to achieve, but step one is to get started. Walking, running, skipping, swimming, cycling, rowing, stepping and dancing are all CV exercises and there are many more. You get your body moving beyond the everyday requirements, your heart and lungs work harder, your metabolic rate rises,...
What is Flexibility Training?
January 22, 2009 | 4 Comments
Flexibility training is probably the most commonly overlooked part of any fitness programme, possibly because the benefits of stretching are not felt as obviously as the benefits of CV or strength training. With CV training you can get quite tired, you breathe hard, you sweat and you can sense the calories burning - you really feel that you are doing something positive for your health. With strength training it feels good to flex your muscles and move the weights to tone...
Glucose or Electrolyte Drinks for Prolonged Exercise
January 13, 2009 | 4 Comments
It is well known that ingesting GES drinks during prolonged exercise may help spare muscle glycogen and prevent dehydration. However, the use of GES drinks during endurance exercise has also been shown to blunt increases in FFAs and attenuate increases in the ratio of free tryptophan to BCAAs, enhancing endurance capacity. These findings suggest that the use of GES drinks during endurance exercise may be an effective nutritional strategy to delay the onset of fatigue via...
Do Not Over Complicate Fitness
December 17, 2008 | 7 Comments
First you must establish what you want to achieve with your fitness programme. To make it easy and avoid being overwhelmed, begin with just one key aim that you feel you must make happen. It has to be something you really want, something that you would feel disappointed if you never managed to achieve as long as you lived.Explore why you want success in this area. Hoping to achieve something because it would be 'nice' to have it, or because you feel you should do it, or even...
Benefits of Fitness Forever
November 18, 2008 | 2 Comments
Congratulations on making the effort to reach atleast at the beginner fitness level uptill now. You are now armed with all the information you need to get the results you want and to live a long, healthy and happy life. This prospect is reward in itself and we would also encourage you to allow yourself some other rewards along the way to help you with your motivation and keep you on track. Celebrate Success The satisfaction of achievement is one thing and it can be made...
Trust only genuine diet pills!
April 17, 2008 | 8 Comments
When it comes to diet pills, trusting any brand is the most difficult task. People keep searching for the suitable pills for days together to find a pill that will be compliant with them. However, every pill boasts of its utility and people fall prey to hefty advertisements. However, many of them work only temporarily and once you leave the pills, all the weight lost comes back with boom rang effect. If you do not want to suffer such set backs, trust only those brands...
Nutrients that Support the Immune System
February 29, 2008 | 8 Comments
In addition to glutamine, there has been interest in determining the role that other nutrients may have on immune function. From these studies, there appear to be several nutrients and or herbs that may help athletes maintain a healthier immune system during training. The first nutrient reported to enhance immune function is protein Studies indicate that immunosuppressed patients are often protein malnourished. Additionally, athletes who maintain a negative energy balance...
Do Athletes Need Supplemental Antioxidants?
February 29, 2008 | 9 Comments
As a result of training, all of the various oxidative processes are elevated in both aerobic and anaerobic athletes. The magnitude of these elevations depends on the intensity and type of exercise in which one is engaged. Also, some authors have speculated that the oxidative muscle damage associated with exercise may lead to the termination of muscular effort. In light of this knowledge, researchers and lay people alike have speculated that antioxidant supplementation may...
Vitamin C, Antioxidant or Pro-oxidant
February 22, 2008 | 1 Comments
Of course thousands of people supplement vitamin C for its antioxidant properties. In fact, many consume several grams per day in an effort to reduce the damage that free radical compounds can cause. But is consuming such high doses beneficial In addition to the inefficiency of absorption as the vitamin C dose is increased, evidence also exists that large acute doses can result in opposing effects to what is intended. How can this be Because of the nature of redox...
Finding a Reputable Source of Sports Supplement
February 15, 2008 | 8 Comments
Charlatans thrive in the field of nutrition perhaps more so than in any other area of medical science. A quick glance through the business pages of the phone book will likely reveal many nutritionists who claim to be qualified nutrition-related consultants. Some sports supplement consumers will undoubtedly wish to consult with a nutrition professional to individualize and optimize their supplement program. But to whom should one turn to for accurate, unbiased sports...
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