Exercise Intensity
Are you getting the most out of your workouts? Discover 6 ways to exercise intensity to ensure you’re in your training zone. Learn how to use heart rate and other metrics to calculate an exercise’s intensity and make your workouts more effective.
Could wearing a heart rate monitor benefit your workouts? In this article, you’ll discover 5 reasons, backed by science, that wearing a heart rate monitor can be of benefit to you.
Do you know how hard you’re exercising? You don’t need a fitness tracker or heart rate monitor to find out. Here are three simple ways to measure the intensity level of your workouts.
Exercise helps burn fat, including belly fat, but what role does exercise INTENSITY play in helping you achieve lean, sculpted abs?
We all would like to have the calorie burn continue after a workout is over – the so-called afterburn. In this article, you’ll discover what types of exercise elicit an afterburn and the factors that impact it.
Carbohydrates and fats are the macronutrients your body prefers to use as a fuel source for exercise. How does it “choose” which one to use during a workout? Here are five factors that impact fuel use and selection during a workout.
Are you a good judge of how hard you’re exercising? According to a recent study, many people aren’t. It turns out a number of people overestimate how hard they’re working. What’s the best way to prevent this? Monitor your exercise intensity. This article discusses various ways to do that.
There are virtually unlimited ways to incorporate exercise intensity into your workout. Here are eight of the most proven principles any athlete can use to promote growth. These principles are used in many of my workout programs like STS and Xtrain. Principles for increasing intensity are especially useful for power lifters and bodybuilders, but they translate easily to the aspects of other sports.
Ventilatory threshold can be used to monitor how hard you’re exercising. Find out what ventilatory threshold is, how it relates to lactate threshold and how you can use it to monitor your intensity during high-intensity interval training.
You’re working out at the gym and eating a healthy diet in hopes of losing a few pounds. You spend 30 minutes four times a week walking briskly on the treadmill and cycling on the exercise bike, but somewhere in the back of your mind you wonder whether you’re working out hard enough. After all, you want to get the full benefits of your exercise program. Is there a way to measure exercise intensity – and how hard you’re working?
Don’t have a heart rate monitor? The talk test is a way to measure exercise intensity that doesn’t require fancy gadgets or technology.
There are a variety of ways to monitor how hard you’re exercising. One of them is the exercise talk test. But is it really an accurate gauge of how hard you’re working? Find out.
