Excercise

The principle of variance at first glance may seem counter-intuitive when it comes to conditioning athletes. However, team sport athletes encounter wide and varied stimuli within the context of competition in their sport. When you actually analyse the nature of these sports and the needs of the athletes, it makes […]

We have our favorite, or maybe not so favorite, exercise workouts, and we try to stay “motivated” and keep them up. But, sometimes, that motivation slips, our good intentions stray, and we lose our forward impetus. What to do? Well, while there many motivational tips and tricks, and just plain […]

The real benefits of aerobic exercise are achieved by increasing your heart rate and breathing hard for an extended period of time. During this aerobic activity your body produces more energy and delivers more oxygen to your muscles. Your heart beats faster and increases the blood flow to your muscles […]

Since the days Jane Fonda and her group of leotard-sporting, leg-warmer-wearing exercisers on VHS-that’s Video Home System for those of you under the age 25-exercisers have loved the convenience of working out at home. VHS has now long gone the way of the dinosaur, but home fitness fanaticism is still […]

How do the pros stay so cool under pressure? What are their secrets to approaching intense competition and practice week after week, year after year? No doubt recreational players have much to learn from professional athletes, but many of these take home lessons are more subtle and have to do […]

Are you so in love with the slopes that winter flies by much too fast leaving you with ski withdrawal symptoms long before you are ready to give it up? If you just can’t get enough of winter skiing, you just might be interested in a relatively new phenomenon slowly […]