Welcome to the September 2004 edition
of The Heart Zones e-Newsletter
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- Bonnie Blair Shares Her Training Secrets
- Carl Foster Elected President of American College of Sports Medicine
- Two New and Inspirational Heart Zones Books Just Released
- Drugstore.com Features Heart Zones
and...
- Wal-Mart Gets Its First Taste of Heart Zones
- The DASH – Distance, Speed, and Heart Rate WORKOUT
- Town Meeting on Emotional Fitness in America
- Attend the 3rd Annual Heart Zones Conference October 1-3rd near Chicago
1. Bonnie Blair Shares Her Training Secrets
Getting fitter and faster for four consecutive Olympic Games is the performance of more than a champion. Bonnie Blair, the winner of more Gold medals in the winter Olympics than any other athlete, will share her training methodology during 12 years of elite level training. In a three-hour presentation during the Colloquium at the Heart Zones Conference on Sunday, October 3rd she will share the system that made it possible.
Later, for the Conference Finale, she will present “Raising Your Game.”
You are invited to attend the Third Annual Heart Zones Conference two weeks from today. Register online at www.HeartZones.com
2. Carl Foster Elected President of American College of Sports Medicine
Adjunct Heart Zones faculty member Carl Foster, Ph.D. has just been elected the President of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). Carl is a professor at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. One of America’s leading researchers and contributors to the practical application of research in the field of exercise science, Carl will present the Advanced Training Seminar at the Heart Zones Conference. He will also present the Keynote address on Saturday, October 2nd : “The Secrets of Training: The Current Research, Science, and Application of Training”.
Two new books are being released on September 20th from Heart Zones, the world leader in training and education using the heart and the heart rate monitor. The first, co-authored by Alinda Perrine and Sally Edwards, Heart Zones Tools for Success series book titled The Timex Heart Rate Monitor is a 30-page easy to read book on how to get the most out of your digital heart rate monitor. The book includes self-assessments for maximum heart rate, five-simple steps to get started, and the basics of using the cool-tool, a heart rate monitor.
Free with every Timex heart rate monitor (or $9.95 by itself) at www.HeartZones.com.
Heart Zones Publishing has also released: Heart Zones Health in a Heartbeat: A 6-Week Program for Emotional and Physical Fitness co-authored by Dan Rudd and Sally Edwards ($18.95). With a primary emphasis on emotional wellbeing, the book teaches a 6-step program on how to get emotionally healthier using the five emotional heart zones . Every chapter has energy activities, workouts, and motivation. The finale is a way to develop your personal training plan for your dream life.
Call Heart Zones and order a copy at 916-481-7283
Getting America fit is the mission for both Heart Zones and the best pharmacy on the net,
Drugstore.com. Heart Zones has teamed up with Drugstore to provide consumers with the health and fitness products that they need. We are proud to announce this new partnership and endorsement and encourage all of our readers to visit and buy by clicking on:http://www.drugstore.com/templates/browse/default.asp?catid=12333&trx=GFI-0-ROTABS&trxp1=12333&trxp4=10
Drugstore.com is a sponsor of this year’s Heart Zones International Education and Fitness Training Conference.
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest company, was introduced to the Heart Zones system on September 9th when Sally Edwards, the Head Heart at Heart Zones USA made a presentation to Wal-Mart management at the store's Bentonville, Arkansas headquarters.
At the invitation of Wal-Mart and Danskin, Edwards lead a presentation related to the book she co-authored with Lorraine Brown titled "Fit and Fat." Danskin, a sponsor of the Heart Zones Conference and a strategic partner for Heart Zones is committed to providing to their customers the best in fitness education. Danskin is making every effort through their all-women’s triathlon series to show America that at whatever size and weight, the secret to health and happiness is to focus on fitness and not on fatness.
Get yourself a copy of Fit and Fat at: http://www.HeartZones.com/books/index.shtml
DASH is an acronym that stands for : Distance And Speed and Heart. The DASH system uses a Timex monitor that measures distance, speed, and heart rate. Here’s a workout to try if you have a DASH monitor.
The Combination Workout: Half Speed/Pace and Half Heart Rate
Don your DASH monitor (it measures distance, speed and heart rate). For the first half of the workout you are going to do the intensity based on speed or pace and the second half on heart rate. Example: For a 40-minute workout, run the first 20 minutes run at 9 minutes per mile, and for the second 20 minutes run at 75% of your maximum heart rate.
Write Down the Results. The more variety that you have in your training, the better the training effect. Combination workouts are fun and keep you looking at different data to stay motivated.
You are invited to attend a free Town Meeting addressing the issue of how our emotions affect our health and happiness. A panel of health and fitness experts will share the most recent research related to emotional and physical health, and the public is invited to join in the discussion with questions and comments.
The expert panel will include Carl Foster, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, and President of the American College of Sports Medicine; Dan Rudd Ph.D., psychotherapist, consultant, and author of Health In A Heartbeat; and Pilar Gerasimo, Editor in Chief, Experience Life Magazine. The Town Meeting, held Friday evening, October 1st, is the lead-off event of the third annual Heart Zones International Education and Fitness Training Conference, to be held October 1-3, 2004 in Naperville, Illinois.
It is well-documented that a sedentary lifestyle, constant stress, and poor eating habits are taking a huge toll on the health of America. We are bombarded on a daily basis with news of drastically rising rates of obesity, anxiety, depression, diabetes, heart disease, and soaring health care costs. Approximately 80 percent of all visits to a physician are for stress-related or stress-induced illnesses. While the National Institute for Mental Health recently reported that people who live in a state of high anxiety are 4.5 times more likely to die from a heart attack or stroke.
For more information about the Town Meeting and the 3-day Heart Zones International Education and Fitness Training Conference on October 1-3, and to get details about curriculum, faculty and fees, go to http://www.HeartZones.com or contact Heart Zones Seminar Coordinator Stephanie Gaiser at 630-768-2734. Conference brochures are available by e-mail request to staff@heartzone.com.
Experience Heart Zones in an entirely new way – attend the three-day Conference and learn from the experts. Our entire faculty and all of our programs will be represented in Naperville, Illinois for you to experience. More than 28 faculty members will lead 10 certifications, 25 workshops and workouts, and three levels of seminars. Participants can earn continuing education credits for many of the industry's major certification organizations such as ACE, AFAA, and ACSM.
Faculty members include Sally Edwards, MA, MBA, the founder of the Heart Zones Training System and author of 20 books on health and fitness; Deve Swaim, MA, teacher and author of High School and Middle School Healthy Hearts in the Zones; and Dr. Alinda Perrine, one of America’s leading fitness experts.
To sign up or learn more call 304.536.9069 or visit www.HeartZones.com
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