maximum heart rate
When you exercise, you try to reach a target heart rate, but what if your heart rate rises beyond your target heart rate and even your maximum heart rate? Find out what you should know.
You probably already familiar to some form of high-intensity interval training – but are you really getting the benefits that this intense type of workout offers? How hard do you have to push yourself to really call it high intensity? Find out.
Yoga has a variety of health benefits. A regular yoga routine helps improve flexibility, fine tunes your balance skills, and increase muscle endurance. Here’s the question. Do any of the common forms of yoga improve aerobic capacity and can they be considered a cardiovascular workout? Find out.
Fitness crazes come and go, but one trend that seems to be enjoying some long-term life in gyms and personal training sessions is high-intensity interval training, also known as HiiT, high-intensity intermittent exercise (HiiE) and sprint interval training (SIT). It’s not for everyone, but it has the potential to kick your fitness level and fat loss up significantly.
How do you monitor exercise intensity? One popular way is to determine at what percentage of your maximal heart rate you’re at – but how accurate are the calculations you use to determine maximal heart rate? Some research suggests the old formula 220 minus age isn’t very accurate for women. Find out what a more accurate formula might be as well as other ways to monitor exercise intensity.
Research suggests that high-intensity exercise is better than long periods of cardio for shedding body fat – but have you ever wondered why? After all, trainers used to tell you to exercise in the fat-burning zone for fat loss. Find out why higher intensity workouts where you’re NOT in the fat-burning zone work so well for fat loss.
Is the much-used formula for calculating maximal heart rate accurate – or are there better ways to measure the intensity of your workout? Find out why the old formula for calculating maximal heart rate isn’t always reliable and other options for estimating exercise intensity.
This is a picture of Amanda working it in Tabatacise! What if I told you that you could get into fantastic cardio shape by doing as little as 4 minutes of exercise? Sound like a pipe dream? Not with Tabata training. Tabata training is a short but very intense type of workout routine that
A HiiT shorter workout holds the potential to improve your cardiovascular fitness, lower insulin resistance, and even help you build muscle mass.
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?
Exercise does good things for your heart, but can it improve your cholesterol level as well? Find out what impact exercise has on blood lipids and how hard you have to work to see results.
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.
