Fitness For Freedom Tips

But at a certain point you might ask yourself ‘I’m doing all this running and can go really far, but why am I not getting any faster? So these are the top six strategies you can use to run faster, you can try as many of them as you like, each one should be good to add a little bit of speed to your runs.

So do you have to eliminate carbohydrates to lose weight, the short answer to this is no way and anyone that says otherwise is ignorant to the science behind weight loss and may or may not have alternative motives to try and sell you something like a book. I can say this with 100% certainty, because I lost 30 lbs. over the last 5 years and 60% of my caloric intake comes from carbohydrates

Today’s question is really basic, but there are a couple of possible answers because it depends on a few factors. The first thing I want to throw out is unless you are an elite or professional athlete where every calorie you eat is being accounted for and you’re on a very strict exercise routine you do not need to eat directly after a workout for quote ’recovery purposes’. For the average person it will make no difference at all, how you recover depends a lot more on what you eat for the rest of the day and how much sleep you get at night.

Brenda thank you for sending this question, it’s an important one that I should have answered right on the show. We’ll start with this one, how do you find your race pace? The one problem with race pace is that it can be hard to figure out

This is a really common question we get and one that requires our attention because it’s really important and you want to exercise when it is the most beneficial for you.

Dr. James Levine is a renowned medical doctor and researcher in nutrition and metabolism. He is the inventor of the treadmill desk and has authored several books including the one we’re talking about today, ‘Get Up!’. Dr. Levine’s ‘tongue in cheek’ style is both entertaining and hard hitting.

All this to be said you can’t just say strength training or cardiovascular training burns more calories than the other because it depends on a lot of factors.It depends how high your heart rate goes, when you strength train it depends how long your breaks are, it depends if you do compound movements or isolated ones, it depends if you go to your max. If you’re doing cardiovascular training it depends how much resistance there is, I mean are you biking up the hill or down it?

Now I want to talk about some things that might make you feel like you’re taking control and responsibility but it is a very ineffective way to do it. What many people do is they recognize that they need to take responsibility which is the needed first step. For some people that means, going out to buy a gym membership, ordering some in-home fitness equipment, hiring a personal trainer to work with them or maybe signing up for a club like Weight Watchers. For many people this is a good first step and is required, except what you’ve done is gone out and bought the tool first.

The first question you need to ask yourself is why are you exercising? If you're exercising just to be healthier and to live a longer life you probably don't need to feel sore. Around the world there are pockets of populations called blue zones where they have high percentages of people that live to be over the age of 100 and one of the things that every one of these populations has in common is they do over an hour a day of moderate exercise plus they have lots of low level activities built into their everyday lives but not enough that they ever feel sore. These people are over 100 and a lot of them live relatively independently with family, so they’re well enough to still do chores and more or less take care of themselves.

Getting a stitch in your side can be really discouraging because it hurts a lot and can make you want to stop, which is the worst thing you can do, if you stop running or walking every time you get a stitch you will never be able to break through that barrier. Getting a stitch in your side when running is very common, especially when you haven't exercised in a while.