Training
Strength Training Workout for Beginners
Strength training is an important part of improving your overall fitness, and for women, it can mean much more. In addition to numerous health benefits, adding weights to your routine can become a form of personal development that builds strength in all areas of life. Join us over the next two weeks as […]
Yoga Teacher Training 03
Every day folks are questioning their careers. They wonder if they’re in the right profession or not. I’m not going to lie; I do this as well. More importantly, my wife does it all the time. I’m talking daily. From where I’m standing, that’s not a good thing. This is why I encourage her to […]
4 Myths about Strength Training for Women
It seems as if there’s a lot of information about exercise for women that is based on unfounded myths and even some outright lies instead of fact or scientific evidence. To help clear up the confusion surrounding strength training for women, ACE is launching the strongHER campaign to help educate the public on […]
The Routine Of The Training
In order to be effective, fitness training must be well assimilated and personalized. The process of learning and mastering the exercises properly takes a lot of time. Many of the movements must be practiced until they become automatisms; this way, the focus will be on the muscles that are worked out and on intensity of […]
Training your brain to prefer healthy foods
It may be possible to train the brain to prefer healthy low-calorie foods over unhealthy higher-calorie foods, according to new research by scientists at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA) at Tufts University and at Massachusetts General Hospital. Published online today in the journal Nutrition & Diabetes, a brain […]
Go Straight To Video For Yoga Training
The various postures of yoga have long been used as a basis for the stretching moves that are prescribed for athletes or used in other forms of exercise. It’s no surprise, then, that a flood of yoga tapes is hitting the market. There are tapes for Olympic-level athletes and tapes for rank beginners. There are […]
Train Smarter with Fitwall: A High-Intensity Interval Training Workout
August 19, 2014, 12:00AM PT in Fitnovatives Blog | Have you experienced Fitwall yet? Fitwall’s Director of Training and National Head Coach Clifton Harski shows ACE’s Anthony Wall how to “Train Smarter” using Fitwall’s unique combination of high-intensity interval training plus continuous biofeedback via heart-rate monitors and mounted iPADs. Check out this […]
Does your training routine really need to be that complicated?
A new study just published in Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism investigated the value of the Pre-Exhaustion (PreEx) training method and found that that the various arrangements of different exercise protocols is of less relevance than simply performing resistance training exercises with a high intensity of effort within any protocol. As resistance training is becoming […]
Does Long-Distance Training Saddle Young Cyclists with Fragile Bones?
Young cyclists training to join the Tour de France could be causing irreversible damage to their bones. The combination of cycling extreme distances and restricting caloric intake to reduce weight can decrease bone density to levels that put young athletes at greater risk for serious fractures and, in the long term, developing osteoporosis. It is […]
How to Add Speed Training to Your Workout Routine
For a very long time in fitness, when you did weight training, it was always at the same speed. And it was not a quick one. When I first got certified in the late 1990’, weight training was always done at “normal” speed on the lift (usually about 1-2 seconds), and a “controlled” speed […]