Heart Rate
Why Reducing Stress Might Speed Up Concussion Recovery
Most concussions heal fairly quickly. Eighty percent of concussions are fully recovered from within a month. This is a testament to the brain’s incredible ability to repair damage. Concussions heal [...]
Holiday Wish List: The Heart Monitor That Can Tell if You’re Ready to Train Hard
If you could measure only one thing on your body every day, heart rate variability would win hands down. Heart rate variability, or HRV, refers to the amount of time [...]
Why a Workout Cooldown Is as Important as Warming Up
Nowadays people have a much better understanding that warming up is important before training so they can prevent injury, improve focus, and physically...
Are Smelling Salts Safe? An Eye-Opening Look at This Hype Up Method
It’s almost game time. "The Star-Spangled Banner" just concluded, the crowd is going berserk and the camera is panning the sideline to capture players preparing for battle. Suddenly, you catch [...]
The Heart Rate Measure That Tells You More About Your Body Than Anything Else Will
Sometimes you step onto the field or into the weight room and feel like no person or thing could slow you down. Other times, you feel like you’re moving through [...]
Watch Minnesota’s Nikola Pekovic Throw Medicine Balls Into Outer Space
Nikola Pekovic is a giant of a man. He looks like a grizzly bear fused with a lumberjack, so it should come as no surprise that he gets loose and [...]
5-DAY PLAN: Cross Country Training With a Heart Rate Monitor
Cross country is a popular sport in the U.S., especially at the high school level, with more than 470,000 student-athletes participating nationwide,...
6 Weird Changes Your Body Goes Through Every Day
The human body is an incredible machine. It functions without having to consciously maintain itself, other than eating, drinking fluids and going to the bathroom. Throughout the day, your body [...]
The Dynamic Warm-Up, Simplified: 2 Techniques
INTRODUCTION It is safe to say after decades of preparing the body for physical performances on the field or in the gym, our society has finally...
5 Things You Can Do to Prevent Muscle Injuries
Muscle injuries are unpredictable. You can be going about your business, playing your sport or working out like you normally do, and then you feel a sharp pain. And it [...]