Tracking your workouts to see if you do enough exercise is key to insuring that you are getting the right amount of physical activity. Currently, adult health guidelines promote about 30 minutes (about 3,000-4,000 steps at 100 steps per minute) of moderate-intensity daily aerobic activity such as brisk walking. And, walking is one of the…
If you want to save heartbeats or improve your heart health, recent research points to two different non-drug methods: Yoga Meditation Yoga, with its meditation, breathing exercises and sometimes-difficult poses, has been practiced for more than 5,000 years. Because practicing yoga is known for its ability to bring inner peace, the activity is often recommended…
There is emerging a new definition of patriotism. Being strong and being healthy is one of the most patriotic acts that an American can do to get our country back to being at itās best. In the past, patriotic acts and services would include joining the military, volunteering for a civic cause, displaying–pledging–saluting the flag,…
You have choices in selecting a heart rate monitor. One of those choices is whether to choose an analog or a digital transmitter belt and watch or receiver. But, what is the difference between a digital and an analog heart rate monitor? And which of the two is best for you? The answer lies in…
Could Exercise be Risky? Could exercise really be bad for some healthy people?Ā Really? The answer to this recent controversy is – it depends. The new report used six different sound studies involving 1,687 people. The results of this provocative research is that 10% of the participants got worse not better from cardio-exercise as it…
On January 12th, I, Sally Edwards, moderated a panel at Digital Health Summit, part of the CES, Consumer Electronic Show, titled āThe End of the Couch Potato: How to use Technology to Motivateā. The question that I posed and asked of the panel is the big hairy one: How do these device tools help you…
Fitness NOT Fat When I co-authored with Lorraine Brown the first book of it’s kind titled Fit NOT Fat in 2003, we showed the research that validated what researchers from University of South Carolina just published (Dec 6, 2011) in the journal Circulation: men who maintain or improve activity can help overall fitness levels, even…
Avoid the Black Hole of Running Hitting the performance plateau is inevitable.Ā You simply canāt 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 Iād 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 individualās 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-overās, 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…