“Nobody jogs for five miles in Iraq. Why should I make you run a long distance at a slow pace? I should be making sure you can race as fast as you can to a place down the street, sprinting like you’re terrified.” Lt. Col. Randall Wickman, quoted in the [...]
An article in the New York Times earlier this week addressed one of the topics Nita and I encounter frequently:
“Lifting heavy weights makes you big and bulky — or at least that’s the conventional wisdom. It’s the reason many women (and some men) who want slim and “toned” physiques opt for lighter [...]
Another study, this time from McMaster University in Canada, is showing that High Intensity Interval Training beats traditional forms durational cardio.
In a previous post on why cardio doesn’t work, I went into myriad of reasons why normal cardio fails to deliver the desired results and the benefits of HIIT.
High Intensity Interval [...]
You are pounding the pavement, or the treadmill, or pedaling on a bike or…whatever it is called when you are on an elliptical…but it never seems to get easier. You get just as winded as you did when started doing the cardiovascular exercise months or even years ago.
If this is your experience, you are not [...]
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