How to target heart rate training zones effectively
Heart rate training zones are a percentage of your maximum heart rate. Heart rate zones help you to gauge your intensity of workout and help to train working efficiently while challenging fitness.
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Check in with yourself with intuitive exercise
Intuitive exercise, or movement, is the idea of connecting with your body to determine what is the form of exercise or movement it needs that day.
New Year’s resolutions that don’t involve weight loss
Take the pressure off weight loss and put the focus on healthful choices, Here are a few ideas for New Year’s resolutions that are not about weight loss.
Should I try kettlebell training?
If new to using the kettlebell, there is some important initial training for safety, but it can be a great addition to your program and a way to add some variety to your routine.
Do you know your numbers?
At most any doctor visit they take a few vital sign measures, and along with yearly checks might look for bigger items like cholesterol and blood glucose levels.
What happens between your workouts adds up – isn’t that N.E.A.T?
NEAT is the energy it takes to do everything else but eat, sleep, and exercise. Any small moments throughout the day can increase our metabolic rate.
How and where to find credible health advice
With lots of sources for information and inaccurate information online, it can be hard to know what is credible health advice, and what is not.
The importance of recovery
The muscle growth, or other changes we can expect from exercise, do not happen during the training. They happen when in recovery between sessions.
Can you outrun your diet?
Don’t aim for perfection, it’s not all or nothing. Working on your health is a life-long process, not a destination.
Celebrate American Heart Health Month
Cardiovascular health is important all year round, but with a little extra help from Cupid, we place special importance on heart health in February.