Strength Training Versus Bodybuilding

To some individuals the difference between strength training and bodybuilding is the difference between an orange and a tangerine; they are so similar to outsiders that there appears to be no difference at all. However, the fundamental basics of each are very different, and while strength training is a more general type of fitness routine [...]

Ways to Enhance Your Running Endurance

Endurance training is useful not only for professional athletes, but also individuals looking to increase their own fitness level. The longer you can keep up a particular exercise routine, the more calories you burn, the stronger your heart becomes, and the better your overall health and well-being will remain. As a general rule, endurance routines [...]

Tapering Before a Competition

The concept of tapering as it relates to sports is the practice of slowly tapering off, or reducing exercise in the days preceding a competition. It is a customary practice among endurance sport contestants, especially with those who participate in marathons or triathlons. The reason behind it is fairly simple; while it is important to [...]

Kettlebell Workouts

The kettlebell is one of the oldest types of weights in existence, and has been used for centuries as a tool for strength training in Eastern bloc countries. In recent years, largely due to the effort of individuals such as Pavel Tsatsouline, the kettlebell has begun to gain prominence in the United States as a [...]

Ways to Enhance Your Running Endurance

Endurance training is useful not only for professional athletes, but also individuals looking to increase their own fitness level. The longer you can keep up a particular exercise routine, the more calories you burn, the stronger your heart becomes, and the better your overall health and well-being will remain. As a general rule, endurance routines [...]

Dance Your Calories Away through Zumba!

To the uninitiated, the word ‘Zumba’ probably conjures up images of a type of cough medicine, or an exotic fruit from some relatively obscure central African nation. It is of course neither; instead, it is one of the fastest growing dance and fitness waves to have hit the United States (and about 40 other countries [...]

The Benefits of Kickboxing

For more than 100 years, psychoanalysts have warned against the dangers of chronically suppressing powerful emotions such as anger and aggression. Freud believed that modern civilized societies required ever increasing levels of self-suppression, a requirement which both safeguarded society from disorder and generated substantial levels of neurotic misery amongst the citizens. Whether one believes in [...]

Golfing Most Dangerous Sport For Knees, Says Expert

Golfing, at least until the advent of the Tiger Wood’s phenomenon, was traditionally viewed as a sport of retirees. However, golfing can be amongst the worst – if not the worst – activity for individuals who have undergone knee surgery, knee replacement or sustained a knee injury. The force exerted on the knees during the [...]

Periodization Training

What is Periodization Training? Periodization training is basically a planned cycle of training that varies in volume and intensity throughout a series of training phases, or cycles. The overall goal is to vary your repetitions, sets, weights and intensity in each cycle to avoid reaching a plateau. Any time that a routine is followed for [...]

Active Recovery Explained

Training and Fatigue Hard exercise can lead to fatigue. This is hardly a startling claim; it is now well established that heavy muscular and aerobic exertion can result in the release of lactic acid into the tissues, causing pain and tenderness in the exercised muscles. Briefly, lactic acid accumulation causes an increase in the concentration [...]

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