The Peanut Butter Diet
From Feeling a little chunky? Here’s how to eat fat and still have a waist like Mr. Peanut’s Like sex, coffee, and beer, peanut butter is one of the “bad” things in life that are actually good for you. Sure, it’s high in calories, but that’s because it’s packed with the same healthy monounsaturated fats [...]
Hill Training for Hikers or the rest of you..
Hill running has a strengthening effect as well as boosting your athlete’s power and is ideal for those athletes who depend on high running speeds – football, rugby, basketball, cricket players and even runners. To reduce the possibility of injury hill training should be conducted once the athlete has a good solid base of strength [...]
Understanding a bit more about your VO2 max
Reprinted from http://www.brianmac.co.uk/ The use of an HRM to set exercise intensity is based on sound physiological principals – as the work increases, oxygen consumption (VO2) and heart rate increases in a linear relationship until near maximal intensities. Heart rate is easier to measure than oxygen consumption and the relationship between them has been established, [...]