Medicine Ball Training

Many sports require activities that could arguably be described as explosive; a pitcher throwing a pitch in baseball, a player taking a slap shot in hockey and many other ones as well. While weight training is a good way to develop the muscles required for these types...

Heart Rate Training

Heart Rate Training is something that many people already have as a part of their exercise fitness programs, but the intricacies of heart rate training are probably lost on most people. The typical person doing heart rate training today hops onto a bicycle or a...

Endurance Training

Endurance training is an effective training program to make athletes tougher than the toughest in terms of quality of output in the face of complete fatigue. The body should be able to force that extra mile out, even when it is at the very end of its capacity. This is...

Circuit Training

Circuit training is an excellent way to improve one’s strength, mobility, and stamina. For those who do not know what circuit training is, it is a training format that consists of 6-10 exercises, strength exercises to be precise, in which the participant...

The History of Aerobics

Aerobics is a fairly new form of exercise. It was Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper, an exercise physiologist for the San Antonio Air Force Hospital, Texas, who coined the term ‘aerobics’ to describe the system of exercise that he devised to help prevent coronary...