- is low-carb better than low-fat? and how much do mice help us understand how our diet affects our health
Diets, diets, diets, they’re everywhere, no matter what time of year or which magazine there’s always a celebrity talking about how they’ve only had spinach soup to eat for the last three weeks and how they’ve lost two stone and, without doing any exercise, they’ve got a flat stomach and can run 10k in 35 minutes; yes, I’m a little sceptical but I think I hide it well? Continue reading
What is your cardio respiratory system, how does it work and how can you make it better?
The heart is part of the cardiovascular system, which comprises the heart, the blood it pumps around the arteries (oxygenated blood) and blood vessels and back to the heart via the veins (de-oxygenated blood). Continue reading
I have been asked about this by several clients recently and so, this is an overview of why your muscles ache a day, or two, or even three days after exercising. What this means in regard to how you’re training and is there anything you can do to minimise it; after all, spending a few days walking around the office like a limping gorilla is clearly going solicit some sort of derisory comment. Continue reading
bigger, faster, stronger and better than the person standing in front of you in the Starbucks queue (they’ll still get served first though!)
Now, hopefully, I’ve been open with everyone as to the reasons we train together in the fashion that we do; why we perform a strength exercise followed by a stability exercise or why your posture during the exercise is of such vital importance, and that I don’t just get you on a machine and stare at the TV whilst you go through the exercise (maybe why my rep counting is so poor because I’m checking out the tracking of your knees or arch in your back, for example). Continue reading
OK, so I guess you want to know what the hell I’m writing about? That’s fair enough, it’s not Latin but to be honest I didn’t know a huge amount about it before it was brought to my attention from a suffering client. What I could have told you is that , as far as a sports injury is concerned, it’s a problem with the forefoot being unable to take the load placed upon it when running. Continue reading
So, are you looking to burn calories, increase your speed for both sprint and distance running or do you just want to feel fitter? Well, with interval training you don’t have a choice, you have to increase your ability in all of them. Continue reading
