These days, professional athletes are competing better, and for far longer, than ever before. It’s not just because nutrition has gotten better, either—it’s because athletes—and their coaches—are starting to understand how the body needs to train to stay nimble, agile, and flexible even as the natural aging process starts to take hold. Here, we have compiled…
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Caffeine is a performance-enhancing drug that’s legal, cheap, and easy to get: chances are you had some this morning. More importantly, it actually does make you better at sports, which is more than you can say for a lot of supplements marketed to athletes. You just have to know how to use it strategically. How…
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Athletes spend hours every day training, building their muscles, and perfecting their skills. Training is more than a hobby, and more than just for health. Even so, their workouts may be way more intense than ours, but we can still adapt their workouts into something that us mere mortals can do. Here is our…
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Some of the apps highlighted here are tracking tools. You can log workouts, count calories eaten, and collect stats about all your runs to see overtime how you’re improving. Fitness apps can also be coaching apps that put you in touch with a personal trainer or nutritionist who will check in with you once a…
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If you ask other athletes to name a benefit of cross-training, all of them will mention injury prevention. But although injury prevention is by far the most widely recognized benefit of cross-training among athletes, it’s hardly the only one. Athletes can also use cross-training to rehabilitate injuries, improve fitness, promote recovery, enhance motivation, rejuvenate the mind and…
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Here I will outline what I believe are the 3 pillars of optimal health — in other words, the 3 lifestyle factors you can manage to improve your health. These are all based on sound science. The 3 pillars are: nutrition, physical fitness, and stress control. I will cover these 3 pillars here without going into too much detail. It goes without…
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For the uninitiated: Pokémon GO is an app, built by Nintendo and Niantic, Inc., in cooperation with The Pokémon Group. Technically billed as a mobile game, it leverages a few basic smartphone technologies—GPS and camera, mostly—to merge the fictional, digital world of Pikachus and Pokémon Gyms with the physical, wholly real world of sidewalks and…
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So your gym has closed down ? Forget about getting your deposit or money back. Once a gym has closed down, the company will protect its assets and that means no one has the power to get their money back. What do you do ? Here are some suggestions. Stop whining and move on…
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