If you are going to exercise for more than an hour, you can increase your endurance by eating every 15 to 20 minutes. A feeling of general tiredness during exercise is usually caused by low levels of stored sugar in your liver, while a feeling of muscle fatigue is usually ...

One of the most serious problems in training for athletic competition is to know when you are training too much. You make a muscle stronger only by stressing that muscle, feeling sore on the next day, and taking easy workouts or days off until the soreness goes away. Then you ...

Nobody should ever die of heat stroke, a sudden uncontrolled rise in body temperature that causes you to pass out, because your body sends you warning signals as your temperature rises.I once almost died from heat stroke in an unimportant local race in Arlington, Virginia. I am still embarassed by ...

Exercisers spend millions of dollars on special sports drinks, even though none increase endurance more than the food from which they are made.You become tired during exercise because you run low on fluids, salt and calories. As long as you replace these three components, you do not need to pay ...

A world famous physical educationist, Eugene Sandow, has very aptly said, "Life is movement, stagnation is death." Physical exercise is essential for the maintenance of normal condition of life. Lack of natural exercise is one of the chief causes of weakness and ill-health.In recent years, the need for exercise has ...

Systematic physical exercise has many benefits. The more important benefits are mentioned below:Regular exercise taken properly can achieve the increased use of food by the body, which contributes to health and fitness. The basal metabolic rate and habitual body temperature will slowly rise during several weeks of physical exercise, if ...

Medical researchers at Harvard and Standford Universities who studied the habits and health of 17,000 middle-aged and older men, reported the first scientific evidence that even modest exercise helps prolong life. Dr. Ralph S. Paffenberger, the visiting professor of epidemology at the Harvard School of Pubic Health, who is the ...

Several systems of exercise have been developed over the years, the most popular among them being the Swedish system and yoga asanas, the later having been practised from ancient times in India. Whichever system you choose to adopt, the exercises should be performed systematically, regularly, and under proper guidance.To be ...

Pilates. Looks almost like Pirates, but sounds more like string cheese. Actually the pronunciation of Pilates is puh-lah-teez. So what is it? A weird kind of coffee drink like a latte? Something with pulleys? An odd way to say please?To explain what a Pilates is you have ...

I would like to address specifically what happens to the quality of endurance sports, when 90% of kids growing up today is not as active in daily life, as they were 15 - 20 years ago. Ask top atheletes in endurance sports about their life as kids and they will ...