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…
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…
Take out 220 – Age As a pioneer in fitness training, Sally Edwards, MA, MBA created a cardiovascular trainingĀ 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. Ā Thanks to the early support and encouragement from industry leaders Saris (CyclOps) and Keiser (M3)Ā with their…
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…
Take a serious glance at America and her northern neighbors to see what is amassing the perfect calamity. Put together this modern scenario: the summation of increased work hours, elimination of physical labor, the popularity of sedentary forms of entertainment, eating nutrient-poor meals outside the home, dangerous environmental conditions, and the generation (born from 1970-1990…
Maximum Heart Rate Disputed When the past president of the American College of Sports Medicine, Carl Foster, Ph. D. said to me recently, “the formula 220-age is worse than useless” I shouted “hooray”. This is the formula for estimating your individual maximum heart rate. This formula is worthless. It is one of the primary reasons…