You’ve heard it articulated in numerous ways “Keep going until you’ve got nothing left… continue to failure… stop when you can’t move”. The suggestion is to exercise until you’ve reached your limit and are completely exhausted. Many of us feel that this is our way of giving 100% worth of our efforts and we all believe that hard work equals results right? Just work even harder and your results will follow…right? Wrong.
Exercising until failure is something that should be done infrequently and is well known to do far more damage than good. For the purpose of this article, we will focus on resistance training (weight
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One of the biggest and most common errors is for people to assume that simply dropping calories or increasing the amount of cardiovascular exercise they do will result in losing weight/fat. It’s fairly understandable since it seems to be a logical equation right? Calories control our ability to gain / lose weight and cardiovascular exercise alters the way that our body burns calories.
Unfortunately, the human body isn’t so simple and having a simple understanding of something that is complex is extremely dangerous since it provides with a sense of confidence that we should not have on the matter. Now it is true, that if we starve ourselves we will eventually lose weight – we may also faint, have muscle cramping, dizziness, nausea, heart problems and more but we will eventually lose weight. However, chances are that we will lose good weight. Truth be told, it is common
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Today we bring you a great review conducted by several experts with article development by fitness guru Charles Poliquin. Understanding more about the science of exercise allows us to practice it more efficiently. The topic of focus for today is rest intervals (how long you rest during exercise). Whether you’re catching your breath running or resting in between sets during weight training, the following should give you a better idea of what is going on with your body.
Article Reviewed: “Research Note: Effect of Load Reductions over Consecutive Sets on Repetition Performance” by Jeffrey M. Willardson, Mark S. Kattenbraker, Maureen Khairallah, and Fabio E. Fontana.subscribe to my RSS feed!
We’ve all heard the basics about preventing injury and yet 95% of individuals observed in fitness centers forgo a safety measure or partake in an activity that is considered high risk. So what’s missing? The fact of the matter is that we’ve all heard bits and pieces about the basic ways we can prevent injury. However, very few of us have ever been given any sort of clarification and most of us have only heard a few of the basic ways to prevent injury. Today, we break down a simple list for you that may save you from an injury.
Stretching: Many of us stretch too quickly or don’t stretch at all. For those of us who do stretch, we typically apply one type of stretching. We stretch statically or dynamically. We recommend both and we recommend following our stretching guidelines which can be found If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
