Push Yourself With Foot Pods & Zones to Reach Your Goals Whether you’re new to fitness, or want to switch up your current workout routine, there’s always additional ways to boost your performance. One way is to use exercise trackers, also known as fitness trackers, usually including foot pods and accelerometers. One of our favorite…
HEART ZONES CEO, SALLY EDWARDS, SHARES BOUTIQUE STUDIO TRENDS Heart Zones Founder and CEO, Sally Edwards, recently flew to the East Coast to explore seven different boutique studios across Boston and New York City. As boutique studios are currently trending—especially with younger demographics like millennials—Edwards wanted to see what all the hype is about. During…
Why Choose Heart Zones? Q: Why did you choose the Heart Zones Move Solution? A: We chose your product due to it easy implementation into our existing physical education programs. For the past three years we have been a show case school district for the Polar Gofit program. Our teachers found their product to be…
This is Bret. He is the Fitness Director at Rollingwood Athletic Club in Fair Oaks, CA. He wanted to deliver a unique experience to his members. He found his solution: Heart Zones. Read his story below. Bret’s Success Story: “Prior to taking our classes, members are encouraged to undergo our…
INTERVAL TRAINING FOR COMPETITIVE ATHLETES The first workout type in a high performance program is intervals. Intervals add variety both in your training and in your training benefits, adaptations, so you can most efficiently improve your fitness level. If you are not doing interval training as part of your schedule now, it’s me to start.…
HOW TO BURN THE MOST FAT Fat is burning in every heart zone. The percentage and total amount of fat burned changes in every zone. The change in the amount and percentage of fat burning depends on principally these three factors: • How fit you are • How hard you exercise • What is the…
METABOLIC FITNESS Avoid the numbers on your bathroom scale and pay attention, instead, to the numbers that mean the most: your cholesterol, your blood pressure and your insulin sensitivity. Those numbers reflect metabolic fitness. Metabolism includes all of your body’s energy activities, the chemical reactions and processes that occur every second of your life to…
You Can Be Fat AND Fit ARE YOU A GREYHOUND OR A ST. BERNARD? If you have always been a little fat, yet you’ve cared for the three basic aspects of your health – physical, emotional/mental, and metabolic – then consider your specific biological makeup, your inherited genetics, and your individual physiology. Our genetic…
You don’t have to be thin to be healthy. You don’t have to be thin to be fit. You don’t have to be thin. If your genetic heritage, body type, and metabolism make you susceptible to gaining weight very easily, don’t feel bad. You could be one of evolution’s triumphs, successes. In prehistoric times, the…
Recovery period is one of the least understood and appreciated parts of the training tree, yet it is a critical part of your training phases or periods. (This recovery period is not to be confused with weekly recovery days where you may workout 5 days a week and recover for 2 days. It is also not…