Specific Formula to Charge Your Energy Systems

Specific Formula to Charge Your Energy Systems
In a previous article I outlined a basic model of how your body produces the ATP necessary to power your body. That’s all great in theory but how do you apply that to your interval training workout? Each sport or activity has different energy system requirements. How do you [...] continue reading

Fat Burning Bodyweight Circuit Exercises

Fat Burning Bodyweight Circuit Exercises

By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Turbulence Training for Fat Loss
When you travel, you worry about missing your workouts and eating poorly…So you must plan ahead for both (apples and almonds for planes, trains, & automobiles)…and bodyweight circuits for “no-equipment [...] continue reading

8 Benefits of Interval Training

8 Benefits of Interval Training
What are the benefits of interval training? Why would I switch from doing my traditional cardio routine? Does it really work if I am not working hard for at least an hour? These are a couple of questions that I hear all the time with clients and injured athletes that I [...] continue reading

6 Interval Training Sessions Improve Oxygen Utilization

6 Interval Training Sessions Improve Oxygen Utilization
How effective are interval training sessions at increasing aerobic exercise capacity
compared to traditional aerobic training? Researchers at McMaster University in Canada
uncovered some very interesting answers.
The study involved 8 subjects who performed interval training sprints on a stationary cycle.
Subjects participated in 6 sessions over 14 days. Each session consisted of [...] continue reading

Avoid Holiday Weight Gain With These 8 Tricks

Avoid Holiday Weight Gain With These 8 Tricks
by Aaron Ivey ATC, CSCS
Most everyone has concerns about gaining weight during the holiday season. It’s so easy to eat a couple hundred extra calories with all of the guilty pleasures that we enjoy. Gifts of candies, cookies, pies, brownies, egg nog… What do you do to make [...] continue reading

No Time to Exercise? No Excuse

A study, published in The Journal of Physiology, shows that short bursts of very intense exercise — equivalent to only a few minutes per day — can produce the same results as traditional endurance training.
The Study:
Subjects: 16 college-aged students
Protocols:
- Interval training group: 4-6 sets of 30 second “all out” bouts with 4 minutes recovery for [...] continue reading

Interval Training For Cardiac Rehabilitation?

Short bursts of high intensity sprints–known to benefit muscle and improve exercise performance–can improve the function and structure of blood vessels, in particular arteries that deliver blood to our muscles and heart, according to new research from McMaster University.
The study is published online in the journal American Journal of Physiology. Regulatory, Integrative & Comparative Physiology. [...] continue reading