overtraining

Your heart rate can tell you a lot, whether you're working hard or at rest. A new study suggests your resting heart rate might be able to indicate whether you're overtraining.

We've all felt great one day and then sucked the next, and peaking for competition is one of the most challenging things in training. Here are aspects of recovery you may not have considered.

Like many of you, I am an everyday athlete. I’m training for quality of life and prolonged health. To achieve that, rest and a few breaks here and there must also play a part.

A quotation from Martin Luther King, Jr. struck me as being relevant to how we should look at our training. Knowing how to modulate our intensity, care for ourselves, and keep making progress.

I'm going to try to save you some time and pain by sharing the lessons I learned the hard way. Here's how you should train if you want to do it for many years and remain injury free.

How much exercise is the right amount of exercise? Researchers used the preacher curl to test out how volume impacted strength gain and hypertrophy. It turns out more just might be better.

Most people think Training = Work + Rest. But it's a bit more complicated than that. Our bodies are complicated, and aging, machines. I've figured out the real, successful training equation.

I'm 58 and I workout every day - I love going to group classes. My main problem is not being able to tone my waist and tummy muscles. Can you help please?

I’ve heard so many times that I should “listen to my body." What if it tells me to EAT THAT COOKIE! Let me share how I've learned when to listen and when to move on.

I’m a better coach because I was a stupid athlete. I developed knowledge, empathy, and awareness from my missteps. And I can spot the stupidity in my athletes a mile away.

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