Exercise & Heart Rate Experiments
If you and your child are searching for a good experiment for your local school district science fair and you’ve never done one before, don’t panic -- there are many experiments you can choose from.
Read more →Fitness Mastery: Hypertrophy, HIIT & Running Optimization
Comprehensive fitness involves a mix of strength training for hypertrophy, HIIT for metabolic health, and corrective exercises for postural alignment.
How to Determine Foot Pronation
Pronation happens when your foot rolls toward the inside and flattens while walking or running. Some pronation is normal, but too much pronation can bring about foot, knee, ankle and hip injuries.
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Homemade Leg Weights
When you're on a budget, but want the extra resistance that leg weights provide — improvise! Leg weights make your workout more challenging, especially if you're doing floor exercises, like side leg lifts. The leg weights you buy in stores or online range from 1 to 20 pounds.
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Do Shoulder Presses Hurt Your Back?
Shoulder presses are considered an effective exercise when it comes to improving shoulder strength and size. The shoulder press is a structural exercise, meaning it places stress on your spine because you maintain an erect position with your torso as you perform it.
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Drinking Alcohol After Lifting Weights
The reasons for avoiding alcoholic drinks during weight-lifting are obvious. Alcohol can impair your coordination and interfere with your muscle gains. What you may not know, however, is that drinking alcohol right after lifting weights can be just as damaging to your efforts.
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How to Build Up Brachialis Muscles
People who are seeking “big guns” want to make sure to train the brachialis muscles. When properly developed, the brachialis muscles help the biceps appear bigger, especially the lower portion of the biceps.
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A Pound of Fat Vs. a Pound of Muscle
When it comes to a pound of muscle versus a pound of body fat, gym myths abound. Muscle is more metabolically active than fat, meaning it burns more calories when you are at rest, but the level of this activity often is overstated. Another common statement, that 1 lb. muscle weighs more than 1 lb.
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Clicking in Knee While Running
If your knee clicks as you run, you may have one of several conditions. These include iliotibial band syndrome, a meniscal injury or plica syndrome. Syndromes that lead to knee clicking often are often relatively easy to treat, though you may need to quit or scale back your running during the process.
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What Are the Best Shoes to Help With Running Hip Pain?
One of the most common causes of hip pain when running is iliotibial band, or IT band, syndrome. The IT band consists of a tough group of fibers that run from your hip to below your knee. Overpronation raises your risk for this syndrome. This occurs when your feet roll in too far after striking the ground as you run.
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What Causes Blood Pressure to Go Down While the Heart Rate Goes Up With Exercise?
One of the benefits of exercise is that over time, your blood pressure may become lower. However, having your blood pressure drop and your heart rate go up during an exercise session is a sign of a problem. Numerous issues, including nutritional deficiencies and health conditions, may cause this situation.
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The Best Way to Build Up Sprint Stamina
If you don't develop your sprint stamina, you may not be able to finish alongside — or ahead of — competitors in a race. Likewise, if you play a competitive sport, you might see a competitor beat you to a loose ball or the end zone.
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Will My Polar Heart Rate Monitor Work With the Garmin Edge?
When devices such as cycling computers and heart rate monitors use the same technology, it's possible to utilize a monitor from one company and a computer from another.
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Knee Pain on the Elliptical Trainer
The elliptical is seen as a panacea if you require low-impact cardiovascular exercise during recovery from a knee injury or as a good way to cross train to give your knees a break from higher-impact workouts.
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What Muscle Should Be Strengthened When You Tear Your ACL?
The anterior cruciate ligament, more commonly called the ACL, is the main stabilizing ligament in your knee. Injuries to the ACL, which runs from your shin bone up to your thigh bone, are common.
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What Happens If You Exceed Your Maximum Heart Rate During Exercise?
It is possible to exceed your maximum recommended heart rate for cardiovascular exercise – but it’s certainly not recommended. Doing so is especially risky if you have a health condition or take medication. Your best bet when determining how high you should push your heart rate during exercise is to consult a doctor.
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Propecia & Muscle Mass
Search the Internet or chat with buddies at the gym and you may be advised to try Propecia to speed your muscle-building efforts. Before you use this drug for purposes for which it’s not intended, you should be aware of several things -- including the drug’s potential side effects.
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Does Your Heart Rate Increase When You Dream?
If you are wondering whether your heart rate went up while you had that crazy dream last night, the simple answer is yes. In fact, whether you have a good dream or a bad dream, your heart and breathing rate always increase during a dream cycle.
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Calories Burned During Full Body Circuit Training
Perform full-body circuit training and you’ll burn calories — but not as many as using an elliptical machine or high-impact step aerobics. When you circuit train, you work your muscles in a specific order, often on weight training machines, without much rest in between exercises — generally 15 to 30 seconds.
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How Long Does It Take to Gain 1 Pound of Muscle?
Theoretically, it’s possible to gain about a pound of muscle per week -- at least during the initial phase of a strength training program. Many variables affect your ability to do so, however. If you decide to try a new eating and workout regimen, always consult a doctor before beginning.
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Specific Mini-Trampoline Lymphatic Exercises
Using a mini trampoline will help you exercise your lymphatic system, which rids your body of bacteria, toxic wastes, fat globules, trapped protein and dead cells, says nationally known nutritionist Ann Louise Gittleman, author of “Fat Flush Fitness Plan.
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