Why to use Threshold for Heart Rate Field Tests By: Sally Edwards Many of you have asked for my recommendation on the Pacer test and using heart rate testing on students. After having spent 30 years field testing kids and adults to set zones, I strongly support the Threshold methodology in school PE over Max…
Cycling for Beginners Road cycling for beginners can be very challenging and down right frightful (especially in big cities with traffic).Ā Always take precessions and ride with someone who has experience and as always seek medical clearance for any program.Ā Now, as for you beginnersā¦I want to help.Ā Here are few basic guidelines that will…
June is upon us and the focus on physical fitness in on. With trips planned, family get togethers arranged, and other social events on the calendar, people reach a peak focus on getting themselves fit! We all want to look good and feel good for these occasions. However, while it is important to “look good”,…
Top Fitness Trend for 2014 High-intensity interval training (HIIT) was just crowned the top fitness trend for 2014. This is the first time that HIITĀ took the number one spot according to the American College of Sports Medicine survey. Also called burst training, the activity involves short period of high heart rate intensity followed by…
Times have changed. In the old days, circa 1984 when I bought the first commercially available device, all heart rate watches would communicate with each other. Those days are gone. Thatās because the transmission, how the transmitter (chest belt) and receiver (watch) connect or communicate has changed. Today, to be an aficionado of mobile training…
If exercise becomes one of your habits, it becomes automated. No longer do you have to engage in the daily internal dialogue of āShould I workout today?ā Doing a workout is no longer on the table for discussion. It becomes habitual – you exercise every day.Ā Daily physical activity isnāt a choice, itās a requirement of…
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…
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…