Sprinting requires three things: strong muscles in your legs and arms. A good cardiovascular system to help transport oxygen to the muscle groups that are doing all the work and some endurance so your muscles don’t cut out after that first, initial burst. When you work at your maximum speed (which is what sprinting is)…
In theory lifting a weight is the same regardless of its shape. In practice however anyone who’s had to lift his mum’s biggest garden pot, knows this is not the case. Shape, handles and center of gravity do make a difference in the way the load of the weight is distributed and then the way…
Every time you pick up a new physical activity that requires you to move in an unfamiliar way it’s hard in the beginning but after a while your body optimizes itself to manage the load and the activity itself, becomes easier. Being an adaptive bio-machine the body is designed to recognize patterns so it catches…
Everything we do physically is first modelled in the brain which, ultimately, controls the body. So really there is no training the body without also training the mind. New studies are now adding greater weight to the mind/body connection by revealing the complex biofeedback loop through which exercise helps the mind get tougher and the…
We all know that exercise is good for us so why aren’t we all super-fit already? Because no one can sustain their enthusiasm for exercise forever. No one. Even the best of us who manage to go through life and remain relatively fit have our low points, breaking points and the points when we feel…
If you’ve trained with a group of people at any time, or even trained with a partner you intuitively know this to be true: you perform better when you train with others than when you train on your own. On paper this, at first, makes little sense. After all we train on our own because…
The brain is housed inside the body. The two are connected through the central nervous system and share a complex neurobiochemical messaging system that allows one to influence the other. In order for the body to do anything the brain has to first model it in its mental computations. This is why exercises with complex…
We all want to exercise more. To achieve that we need to answer three specific questions: What should we do to exercise more? What type of exercise should we do? How can we get fitter? This article covers it all. New studies, the Covid pandemic and the ubiquity of fitness tracking apps changed a lot…
