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How to Correctly Weight Train for Golf Like Tiger, Vijay, and Phil
I often hear from amateur golfers about how training with
weights makes them feel "tight" and it ruin's their golf swing.
Traveling on the PGA Tour I disagree with this point of view
completely. It is well known that the top players on the...
Should You Be Taking Liquid Vitamins?
How many pills do you have to take every morning? Lots of multivitamins in there? For most people the answer is yes, considering there are more multivitamins sold than Prozac or Viagra!
I think my mom used to take at least five or six...
Ten excuses why people don't do fitness exercise.
Here's a list of reasons that people give to get out of doing fitness exercises. Obviously you are not one of these people and you have put in to action a plan to regularly exercise and keep fit.
1) I am too busy right now, I'll start next week....
Week 17 Prediction
Denver 17 @ San Diego 31
Neither team is playing for anything. San Diego, after last week
lost is eliminated from playoff contention, while Denver is
locked into the number two seed in the AFC. So Denver won't play
its starters, while San...
WVU Men's Basketball Season Preview
There is positive talk of post-season tournaments for West Virginia University.
Surprisingly, that talk has nothing to do with the football team.
While the boys on the gridiron have already accepted an invitation to the 2005 Toyota Gator...
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Tabata Protocol: A Fast, Effective Workout
Can you get an excellent aerobic and anaerobic workout in less
than 4 minutes?... You bet you can!
The Tabata Protocol was created by Dr. Izumi Tabata at the
National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Tokyo, Japan.
The basic concept of this cardio interval training method is to
do intense exercise for 20 seconds, rest 10 seconds and repeat
for 8 cycles.
The entire workout only takes 4 minutes... 3:50 to be exact.
Just like Cardio Interval Training, the rest period can be
either complete rest or reduced intensity.
That's all there is to it... an extremely quick and effective
metabolic conditioning exercise method that improves both
aerobic and anaerobic capacity simultaneously.
I personally love the Tabata Protocol... It is a great way to
get a very intense workout in a very short period of time.
As a matter of fact, I like it so much that I use the Tabata
Protocol not only for metabolic conditioning methods like
sprinting, biking, rowing, jumping rope and calisthenics... but
also strength training exercises using bodyweight, dumbbells,
barbells, sandbags, Indian clubs, medicine balls and others.
Now... some people are afraid of
the intensity of the Tabata
Protocol.
Let me put those fears to rest...
You do not have to work at an extremely high intensity that
leaves you laying on the floor gasping for air as your friends
call the paramedics.
The Principle of Overload states that the stress placed on the
body only has to be slightly greater than normal to instigate
bodily changes for performance improvement.
In other words, you can still get great results with the Tabata
Protocol while going at your own safe pace.
Cardio Interval Training of any type stresses the body both
physically and mentally.
This is what makes the Tabata Protocol so great... the short 10
second rest gives you a break both physically and mentally,
allowing you to keep the 20 second work intervals intense.
If you have not experimented with the Tabata Protocol... I
suggest you do.
About the author:
Coach Lomax is a strength, conditioning and fitness coach
dedicated to building better humans for sport, work and life.
Learn more at Optimum
Physical Training or take his FREE Tabata Calisthenics
Workout Mini Course.
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