Avoid the Black Hole of Running Hitting the performance plateau is inevitable. You simply can’t improve forever. But when it happens, what do you do? Change (you pick one) your diet, sleep, training partner, pattern, work schedule, life, coach. Rather, what I’d suggest is try a new training system. After 40 years of running and…
Health Coach = Success? Health coaches are specially trained health and fitness-care professionals who do one-on-one consulting in the wellness area of individual’s lives. Take Mike Anderson-Thomas as an example. He is zeroing in on the big Five O birthday. In his heart, he knows that it is time to get healthy. After his annual…
Quick Fix your Fitness Clearly, fad diets, miracle cures, celebrity exercise routines, muscle make-over’s, and overnight phenomenon are most often marketers method of taking your cash in return for false promises and worse for false hope. There are some easy fixes that do work and they deserve their place in our lives. They deserve to…
Most agree, exercise (or call it movement activities) is essential to your health. Today, there’s no argument about that – it is a fact. We all need to do something – mow our lawns, walk the dog, jog, something. But according to a recent study by the Physical Activity Council (PAC), more than 60 million people…
Take out 220 – Age As a pioneer in fitness training, Sally Edwards, MA, MBA created a cardiovascular training system based on five key heart rate training zones, each built on 10% of your maximum heart rate. The system is popularly known as HZT, Heart Zones Trainng. The five zones HZT system was first developed…
Cycling Fusion + Heart Zones The first fitness training and education company to offer an indoor cycling (IC) certification using power meters and watts-based workouts, Heart Zones is the leader in educating riders using the power of power. Thanks to the early support and encouragement from industry leaders Saris (CyclOps) and Keiser (M3) with their…
Pinkhouse (aka Paul Camerer) almost 10 years ago, started the first “garage gym” named after the color of his east Sacramento home. Today, he is nearing his 92nd birthday and he wanted to continue to demonstrate that maximum and threshold heart rate do not decline with age as many believe. Pinkhouse is but one example…
Challenges are important. As you age and accomplish longer and harder challenges as I have over the last 40 years of training and racing, it becomes a stretch to create new and more challenging ones. For my 60th birthday just four years ago, I decided on a hairy and audacious one – hike the 2,600…
Don’t Use the Term Anaerobic Exercise Most people may think that the reason you begin to fatigue is that you go “anaerobic” or reach an intensity when there is not enough oxygen for your running muscles to contract. That is, that you reach an effort or intensity levels when the demand for oxygen out-strips the…
Sitting can be a Health Hazard Sitting for long periods of time is hazardous to your health. Even if you are active, you still need to get up often and move. That’s because there is a strong association between sitting too much and mortality risks. Exercise does not cancel out the ill effects of too…