Make Safety a Part of Your Healthcare
| | | Today my wife and I almost ran into a car on our way to the gym as we crossed an intersection. As we drove through the intersection, a car to our right ran the red light. I slammed the breaks and hit my horn. We could see the startled driver talking on his cell phone as he drove by. He simply wasn’t paying attention. Surprisingly, a police car was sitting at the red light to our left but he did nothing. We couldn’t believe the police officer didn’t see the close call!
Many people are caught up into staying fit to prevent disease and live a long healthy life, but they don't pay close attention to potential accidents.
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Understanding Your Resting & Exercise Heart Rate
| Resting heart rate gives an indication of stress and overtraining levels, while exercise heart rate gives an indication of exercise intensity. Monitoring your resting and exercise heart rate over time as you train will change over time and provide you with good markers of physical conditioning. To properly measure your heart rate, find your pulse and count how many pulses you detect for 30 seconds. Now multiply the number of pulses by 2 which gives you pulses per minute thus your heart rate (beats per minute or bpm). Of course you can purchase a gadget (such as a heart monitor) to easily measure your heart rate. |
Soy Milk vs. Cow Milk
| I recently read the book, “The New Wellness Revolution” by Paul Zane Pilzer. It’s a very good book that speaks to our current and future wellness / healthcare system and potential opportunities that exist for entrepreneurs looking to get into the wellness industry. In Chapter 3, “What You Need to Know about Food and Diet”, Mr. Pilzer promotes drinking soy milk instead of cow milk. The reasons gave me pause to drinking cow’s milk. |
Are You Stressed Out?
| Do you feel mentally drained, uptight, frustrated, annoyed, tired all the time, or overwhelmed? Then chances are you are probably stressed! Being stressed can wreak havoc on the body, internally and externally and is very unhealthy. With our hectic lifestyles where we have to juggle many balls, it’s easy to become stressed. Some people can handle stress, while others cannot. There are a few things you can do to reduce your stress. |
How To Determine Your Healthy Weight
| To properly determine your healthy weight isn't just getting a scale. The best way to determine a your healthy weight is to determine such body composition tests as percent body fat, waist to hip ratio, and body mass index, in addition to traditional height-weight measures. These tests, taken together, are much more accurate than just looking at weight. Determine Your Body Mass Index Rating
Body mass index (BMI) refers to relative weight for height for both adult men and women and is used as a measuring tool for future disease risk.
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Do You Follow the 7 Good Health Practices?
| Are you following the 7 good health practices? According to a 15 year study of more than 6,900 people, researchers found that following 7 basic health habits were a good predictor of how long people lived. People with 6 to 7 of the good health practices, lived 7 to 12 years longer than people with less than 4.
The 7 Good Health Practices are as follows: |
Protect Your Body's Engine - The Heart
 | Protect your heart. The heart is your body's engine. Without it, the body stops (dies). Just like a car, without its engine, the car shuts down. Heart disease is a highly preventable disease; however, it remains the U.S. leading cause of death, killing one person every 34 seconds, or more than 2,500 people per day. The purpose of the heart is to pump life-sustaining oxygen and nutrients to 300 trillion cells throughout your body, 24 hours per day, 70 to 80 times per minute. |
Staying Healthy is Money in the Bank
| Most people get their healthcare insurance from their jobs. Large companies offer health insurance to employees at a reasonable price, and it’s deducted from their paychecks without a second thought. However, if a person loses their job or becomes ill and can’t work anymore, that person loses their healthcare insurance. Sure, companies offer COBRA (they have to by law), but the payments are much higher than before. |
Knowing Types of Resistance Training
| Knowing more about the types of resistance training available will help you to make educated decisions on the equipment you use for yourself and your clients. Constant Resistance Devices: “Constant resistance” means that the resistance does not change during the course of the exercise. This applies to free weights and machines with round pulleys. The pros and cons of constant resistance devices are generally the same for all populations. The limiting factors are as follows: |
Training 101: Types of Resistance Training
| Knowing more about the types of resistance training available will help you to make educated decisions on the equipment you use for yourself and your clients.
Constant Resistance Devices: “Constant resistance” means that the resistance does not change during the course of the exercise. This applies to free weights and machines with round pulleys. The pros and cons of constant resistance devices are generally the same for all populations. |
Use Periodization To Organize Training Plan
| Not sure how to organize your clients training plan? Periodization teaches you how. Periodization is planned periods or cycles within an overall training / exercise program. Periodization promotes long-term training and performance which includes variations in training specificity, intensity, and volume. Periodization was proposed in the 1960’s by Russian physiologist Leo Matveyev. Later, American exercise scientists further modified Matveyev’s work with special application to training strength and power athletes. |
Training 101: Planes of Motion & Terms of Movement
| This briefing will familiarize you with the planes of motion and the terms of movement. This will help should the need arise that you decipher medical histories and information. Sagittal plane: The sagittal (anteroposterior) plane passes through the body from front to back and divides it into left and right portions. Several actions occur within this plane, such as flexion (decreasing the angle between two body segments), extension (increasing the angle between two body segments), dorsiflexion (moving the top of the foot toward
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Major Muscles 101
| Remember it’s a good idea to have a basic knowledge of your muscles. Your muscles is a tissue composed of fibers capable of contracting to effect bodily movement. To burn calories, you have to exercise using your muscles.
Muscles are are very sophisticated and are efficient at turning fuel into motion. Muscles are long-lasting, self-healing and grows stronger with practice. Muscles do everything from allowing you to walk to keeping your blood flowing!Here’s a quick list of the major muscles in the body, how they work, and how to work them.
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