Archive for the ‘Cardio’ Category

Don’t Give Up What You Love

So, there’s this thing you love to do. It’s exercise and it burns calories and gets your heart rate up and makes you feel good. Suppose it’s walking … or running … or treadmill work … or the stairclimber machine … or elliptical training. But some exercise guru out there on the interwebs is telling […]

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Are Fitness Tools Accurate?

Fitness Gadgets. We love ’em, don’t we? They motivate us. They help keep us on track. – Step Counters. – Heart Rate Monitors. – ‘Calories Burned’ Monitors and Counters. But wait!! Are these things even ACCURATE? Or are they just misleading us and helping us kid ourselves that we’re doing more than we are? The […]

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Good Distractions vs. Bad Distractions

DISTRACTIONS. Lots of people use distractions while they’re working out. ~ Music. ~ TV. ~ Beautiful Scenery. ~ and (gawd forbid): Reading. Sometimes distractions can help you intensify your game. But they can also take your head right OUT of the game. And that could lead to injury. At the very LEAST it will lead […]

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