The Fitness Journal

You don’t need access to a lot of high tech cardio equipment, like treadmills or rowing machines to develop your cardio-vascular fitness. Here are some of my favourite ways to build up your aerobic and anaerobic fitness outside the gym. As usual I recommend interval style training.

- skipping
- training on the heavy bag
- bodyweight circuits etc.
- actually get outside and go for a run or cycle

There are a lot of other options, so pick a couple of your favourites and go and train.

If you are interested in me working with you to achieve your health and fitness goals, go to busy-fitness.com/
Train Smart, Love Life.
Wayne

One of the problems with most traditional training programs for health and fitness is that they only focus on one or two  elements of fitness e.g. the aerobic conditioning in traditional long slow distance jogging or swimming. I think a well developed program should incorporate a wide variety of exercises, training styles and types of training. This way you are more likely to gain the wide variety of benefits that come from training. Ideally you should incorporate strength, energy system training including intervals, flexibility, co-ordination, agility and balance training in your program. All of these elements don’t need to be incorporated in every training session but over a 1-2 week period all of these elements should be trained based upon your own strengths and weaknesses. On the other hand, you don’t need to have separate sessions for each element e.g. a yoga or martial arts class will cover a number of elements depending on the class.

If you are interested in me working with you to achieve your health and fitness goals, go to busy-fitness.com/
Train Smart, Love Life.
Wayne

Recent research has looked at the action of allicin, the sulphur based compound in garlic on Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) and muscle recovery. More specifically the study looked at blood lactate, muscle breakdown markers, perceived muscle soreness and antioxidant levels after a downhill treadmill run.  The group that took the allicin supplement had significantly lower levels of the muscle damage markers, significantly lower perceived muscle soreness and much higher antioxidant levels than the placebo group.

If you are interested in me working with you to achieve your health and fitness goals, go to busy-fitness.com/
Train Smart, Love Life.
Wayne