Health & Fitness Articles
are you over training ? By Aidan carroll
It is no secret among athletes that in order to improve performance you've got to work hard. However, hard training breaks you down and makes you weaker. It is rest that makes you stronger. Physiologic improvement in sports only occurs during the rest period following hard training. This adaptation is in response to maximal loading of the cardiovascular and muscular systems and is accomplished by improving efficiency of the heart, increasing capillaries in the muscles, and increasing glycogen stores and mitochondrial enzyme systems within the muscle cells. During recovery periods these systems build to greater levels to compensate for the stress that you have applied. The result is that you are now at a higher level of performance....Read More
Stress Kills by aidan carroll
Many students who attend my classes & seminar’s will be somewhat nervous on their first day. This is very normal & natural. This feeling of nervousness is the result of adrenaline release. It is sometimes referred to as our “Flight or Fight” response. What we must remember is that when we experience this feeling that it is there to help us and not to defeat us, although it will and can defeat us if we let it....Read More