By:
On:
In: Exercise and Diet
With: 0 Comments

Cause: Metabolite accumulation in your muscles triggers signals to your brain. Occurrence: Mile or 5K races, fast surges, or finishing sprints Antidote: Short, fast interval workouts Imagine the searing muscular discomfort of a hard interval workout—focused entirely in your thumb. That’s the odd sensation that 10 lucky volunteers in a University of Utah lab experienced in 2014, when a research team led by professors Alan Light and Markus Amann injected a cocktail of metabolites—the chemical byproducts that build up in your muscles during intense effort—into their thumbs. The results were profound: They created sensations of fatigue in subjects not moving a muscle. For decades, scientistsRead More →

By:
On:
In: Exercise and Diet
With: 0 Comments

Where is my strength gone? Cause: Inefficient muscle-fiber recruitment Occurrence: Sustained medium efforts like 10K to half marathon Antidote: Train your fast-twitch fibers to be more efficient. The early miles of a half marathon often feel pretty easy. You’re not sprinting fast enough to accumulate high levels of lactate and other metabolites; and unlike in a marathon, you’re not running far enough to empty fuel stores. So why does it eventually—and inevitably—get hard? The answer, according to studies from the University of Copenhagen, once again depends on oxygen kinetics. Over the course of a sustained run at half marathon pace or faster, the amount ofRead More →

By:
On:
In: Exercise and Diet
With: 0 Comments

“I can’t catch my breath!” Cause: Oxygen deficit Occurrence: Shortly after starting to run Antidote: A “priming” warmup, including a sustained burst of intense running   The first rep of an interval workout always feels hard. You’re gasping for air; your heart is pounding. The next rep, though, is a bit easier. “Your breathing rate doesn’t actually fall; you just kind of settle into it,” says Andrew Jones, Ph.D., an exercise physiologist at the University of Exeter in England. What you’re experiencing is the result of a temporary mismatch between the oxygen your legs require and the oxygen your heart and lungs are able toRead More →

By:
On:
In: Exercise and Diet
With: 0 Comments

Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a short time, but underestimate how much they can achieve in a long time. Or like a Chinese proverb say: “Even the longest way starts with the first step” Why do many people fail with their New Year RESOLUTION? Be it to lose weight, stop smoking, getting healthier and fitter, be on time for appointments or just watching less TV – very fast there are many “reasons” why you can’t do this or that to achieve your resolution for example it is your schedule with kids’ school, it is the weather, it is your work or itRead More →

By:
On:
In: Exercise and Diet
With: 0 Comments

The Greatest Gift You Can Give Is Self-Improvement Because what you give becomes an investment that will return to you multiplied.  Jim Rohn December 20, 2015 I’m often asked the question, “How can I help someone else change, improve, be better?” My answer often comes as a surprise, and here it is: The key to helping others is to help you first. In other words, the best contribution I can make to someone else is my own personal development. If I become 10 times wiser or 10 times stronger, think of what that will do for my adventure as a father… as a business colleague… as a friend.Read More →

By:
On:
In: Exercise and Diet
With: 0 Comments

by Jim Rohn One of the first things successful people realize is the old adage, “If it is to be, it is up to me.” For you, that means that your success, your course is up to you. This doesn’t mean that you do it all alone. It simply means that you take responsibility for your life and your career. Too many people today look at opportunity and figure it is up to someone else to make sure they get it. They wait and wait, figuring that it is up to someone else. And then the wait is over, and it is too late toRead More →