Have you ever experienced that frustrating problem of how to count laps while you swim? Whether you’re preparing for a triathlon, training for swim team, or just swimming laps for fitness, it can be confusing when you’re halfway through a swim set and you lose track of how many laps you’ve completed.
Let’s face it – not everybody has a swim lap counter standing at the edge of the pool telling you how many lengths you’ve finished. Not only does not being able to count laps throw off your calculation of how fast you’re swimming, but it also affects your ability to focus and to gauge swim pace and intensity.
So here’s a good way to count laps while you’re swimming: a new company called “Swimovate” has developed a special kind of wrist-watch style computer called a “The Pool-Mate”. This watch is a completely automatic lap and stroke counter for swimmers that works in any size of pool, allowing the swimmer to concentrate on just…swimming!
In this February 24th free audio episode: The Latest Research from The Journal of Strength & Conditioning, Double Chins, Heart Rate Monitors, Testosterone, Soreness, Pre-Race Jitters and Protein!
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Folks, I would highly recommend that you play the video below to meet one of the nation’s top personal trainers: Mr. Darin Steen. This fat loss expert and family man has such good ideas, that I actually decided to release a special mid-week audio update containing my fat loss interview with him.
As the creator of the 300 page guide to fat loss, entitled“Fat Loss Lifestyle Manual”, the designer of the entire “Cardio Intervals DVD Series” and your personal guide in his brand new “Fat Loss Lifestyle Exercise Video Library”,Darin agreed to be interviewed by me and reveal some of his top fat loss tricks and tips, including some of the very same techniques he uses as personal fitness adviser to Dr. Mercola.
During our discussion, (which you can listen to for free by downloading my fat loss interview with him here or using the player at the bottom of this post), Darin reveals:
-An easy system to determine which days to eat carbs and which days to avoid carbs…
This guest post by Darin Steen (who I’ll be interviewing for Podcast #83) teaches you exactly what to do at the gym if you have limited time to workout…
The phrase “I don’t have enough time” is a common excuse that many people use. Let’s stop lying to ourselves. The average person watches over four hours and 15 min. of TV per day. We have enough time. But the question is where are your priorities? With the promise of all the latest technology simplifying and perfecting our life, I just don’t see it. With computers, high speed internet, e-mail, Blackberries, Palm Pilots, microwaves, meal replacements, and all the latest and greatest innovations, we seem to be more stressed; less fit, and have less time than ever.
The playing field is precisely even for everyone, we all have 1,440 minutes in a day. Whether you are black, white, yellow, rich, poor, healthy or sick, it’s the same for every-one. What is not the same is our perception of time, which everyone has a different view or focus on. How much time you perceive that you have is dependent on what you focus on.
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In this February 17th free audio episode: the latest research on strength and conditioning, timing supplements before exercise, alkaline water, the lemonade diet, women hip issues, more on wheat germ, sitting on exercise balls, which low fiber foods to eat before an event, and death by modern medicine.
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In this shocking interview with Dr. Carolyn Dean, one of the nation’s leading natural physicians, we discuss Dr. Dean’s amazing new book “Death by Modern Medicine”. Be prepared to learn the truth about the travesties of modern medicine that are surrounding you, including: Read the rest of this entry »
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In many of the programs that I write out for my clients who are pursuing fat loss, I include a weekly or bi-weekly “long slow fat burning session”. This is chance for an individual to train their body how to oxidize and utilize fat efficiently during exercise, and is a good opportunity to still burn calories and burn fat, without breaking down the body in the same way as a hard session would.
After all, if you go hard all the time, every day, you’re just going to get hurt or burn yourself out.
But some people, and especially longer distance endurance athletes such as triathletes, get stuck in a rut, performing a long slow fat burning session for nearly every workout – completely avoiding intensity or just not doing intense workouts or intervals because it takes them outside their comfort zone.
There are even trainers, athletes and coaches who would argue that long slow distance training is the ultimate way to get fit, since it turns the body into an aerobic machine and allows for superior development of the “slow-twitch” muscle fibers, which take a longer time to fatigue and primarily utilize fat as a fuel.
But this really isn’t true. As a matter of fact, you’re wasting your time and getting subpar results if all you’re doing are long, slow aerobic workouts.
In this February 10th free audio episode: all about testosterone, whether wheat germ helps you with performance, research on diet coke, getting enough calories, duathlon training, leaning up quickly, saturated fats and magnesium.
Remember, if you have any trouble listening, downloading, or transferring to your .mp3 player just e-mail ben@bengreenfieldfitness.com.And don’t forget to leave the podcast a ranking in iTunes – it only takes 2 minutes of your time and helps grow our healthy community! Just click here to go to our iTunes page and leave feedback.
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The results are in! In this week’s interview with Dr. Richard Cohen from Bioletics, who you may remember from podcasts #53 (six key performance factors), #62 (Ben’s performance testing results) and #72 (essential fatty acids), I find out the final results of my home saliva testing for testosterone, and whether I was actually able to make any difference in my hormone levels by following Dr. Cohen’s suggestions. Whether you’re a male who is worried about that natural decline in testosterone (called andropause) that occurs after the age of 27, or a female who wants to find out whether she may be overtraining or not losing weight properly, Dr. Cohen tells you everything you need to know about testosterone and hormone testing, including:
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