When you first start an exercise routine, you'll find that you improve rather quickly. Your mile time decreases and you start lifting more weights. Sooner or later this levels off and you reach a plateau. Your times and weights will start to stagnate. As you exercise, your body becomes used...
The Best Exercise Routine is made up of several elements. You have to enjoy it, it has to work, and it needs to evolve to meet your changing needs. Making a routine that combines all of these is sometimes difficult. Something you enjoy might not necessarily work too good, and...
The hardest part to starting an exercise routine is actually committing yourself to doing so. Once you're sure that you want to add exercise into your daily life, you have to ask yourself a few questions. How are you going to exercise? When are you going to exercise? Where are...
Carbohydrates are our main source of fuel, especially for our brains. Completely eliminating them from your diet isn't a very good idea. Simple carbs such as soda,candy and other snacks that provide our body with no vitamins and minerals, just pure energy are known as empty calories. Too many of...
Your goal when trying to gain weight should be to eat many meals throughout the day. Sleeping overnight isn't very conducive to this since you'll be fasting for 6-8 hours which means no food. When you wake up, you need to ensure that you take in some good calories to...
If you're trying to lose weight or even simply trying to stay away from junk food, hunger is your enemy. When you get hungry, you get cravings and rarely are these cravings for healthy snacks such as an apple or salad. When you get cravings you usually go for that...
Once the body's ATP-PC stores are used up (~10 secs), it is time for the anaerobic (lactic) energy system to contribute. It is the predominant ATP supplier for activities lasting over ~ 10 seconds, but less than ~ 2 minutes. The function of this energy system is to breakdown stored...
ATP is the "energy currency" of the human body; in other words, all activities which require energy (such as beating of the heart, growing hair, breathing, jumping jacks, etc…) use ATP as the "fuel". An explanation of the body's "energy systems" actually discusses how ATP is created, rather than what...
In previous posts (part I, part II, part III), we dealt with energy intake and storage within the human body. In this upcoming series, we will explore the next chapter of the energy utilization process by discussing the different energy systems which make up human metabolism. All movement...
When shopping around for a personal trainer, there isn't a lot of information available to base your decision off of. The most important factors that should influence your choice is the trainer's experience and education. To become a personal trainer, you either need to have a degree or get a...
