http://www.aitank.com Showing you how to maximize your fitness Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:01:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How often do people tell you that they cannot seem to lose weight even though they put in an hour per day in the gym or on the treadmill. Unfortunately, going about our daily lives and merely injecting an hour in the gym will not help us realize any goal ... http://www.aitank.com/2010/12/an-hour-a-day-does-not-keep-the-fat-away/ If endurance is a critical component of your overall fitness then listen close. You NEED to know what lactate threshold training is. Why you ask? Well to put it as simply as possible, your lactate threshold determines how long and how hard you can exert near maximum effort, or to ... http://www.aitank.com/2010/02/break-down-the-wall-lactate-threshold-training/ How many of you all remember the presidential fitness tests when we were in grade school? Well there is new test which is based on the same program aimed at adults. Created in 2008, the adult fitness test is meant to test the aerobic fitness and muscular strength and endurance of ... http://www.aitank.com/2009/12/a-presidents-standard-of-fitness-do-you-measure-up/ The past few years have been unkind to many of the world’s top athletes. Olympic hopefuls to MLB sluggers to Tour De France cyclists, have all fallen prey to intense scrutiny as we seek to maintain the image of a pure natural athlete. I am not going to talk in ... http://www.aitank.com/2009/12/the-subculture-of-steroids-and-performance-enhancing-drugs/ The question on when and how to stretch and warm up is one that comes up often. It is one of those, made to complicated because we think about it too much things. And from all this thinking have spawned several myths which we will talk about here later on. ... http://www.aitank.com/2009/12/dynamic-flexibility-part-1-what-is-it/ There comes a point when all of us think that we can not go anymore. That another step would kill us, turn of the pedal drain what little energy we have left, rep under the weight of a barbell crush us. Well the truth is, you are thinking you can’t ... http://www.aitank.com/2009/12/beating-down-the-wall-mind-over-body/ Here is some health advice that we can all get excited about. Recent research is showing a stronger casual link between alcohol consumption and coronary health. Before we get into the details let me say a few words. Drinking in this article will be defined as no more than one drink ... http://www.aitank.com/2009/12/alcohol-and-your-heart-a-reason-to-raise-a-glass/ In a previous post we discussed what it means to be physically fit and some factors that contribute to a state of overall fitness. Cholesterol was one of these factors and so this we are going to discuss what it is and how it influences our health and well-being. Cholesterol is ... http://www.aitank.com/2009/12/cholesterol-its-not-the-evil-you-think-it-is/ I am sure you have heard the term antioxidant thrown about everywhere from the back of your yogurt cup, to the tea you drink and the vegetables you eat, but do you really know what this class of nutrients does. Think of it this way, your body is a war ... http://www.aitank.com/2009/12/antioxidants-waging-war-within-our-bodies/ Step into a gym and what do you notice first? The big guys right. What some people are able to transform their bodies into amazes all of us at some point or another. Men who look like descendants of Hercules himself. It is only natural for us to want to ... http://www.aitank.com/2009/12/are-you-explosive-functional-strength-explained/