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Tapping your aerobic capacity requires a very specific form of training. First, its advisable to wear a heart-rate monitor. Then warm up gradually to reach your optimum aerobic training zone.  Your warm-up will accomplish at least two things: 1) You will be gradually mobilizing the fatty acids stored throughout your body to your bloodstream so that you use your fat instead of your vital blood sugar. This is critical. If you don't warm up, you may exercise aerobically, i.e., with oxygen in the cells, but not burn the fat.  During warm-up, you should count your heart rate at 50 percent of the maximum using the standard method of calculation. 2) You will prevent cramping. This warm-up period should take about fifteen minutes. This allows your body to gradually distribute blood to those areas that need it rather than immediately diverting it from vital organs - a critical distinction to make sure that your workouts build health and fitness without injuring your...

Probably the most important element to one's health is oxygen. Every day, we breathe approximately 2,500 gallons of air in order to supply our tissues with oxygen. Without it, cells become weakened and die. There are about 75 trillions cells in your body, and they provide you  with adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the basic energy for everything that your body does, whether it's breathing,dreaming, eating,or exercising. In order to survive, cells must have oxygen to burn glucose and create ATP for continued growth. The point is that you don't want to deplete oxygen during exercise. If you want to know whether you've moved beyond aerobic into anaerobic, here's a simple test : when you're exercising, can you talk (aerobic)? Or are you too winded (anaerobic)? Your breathing should be steady and audible, but not labored.  What does it feel like when you're working out?  If you're exercising aerobically, it should be pleasurable thou...

Some individuals, in their zeal to eliminate all fat from their diet, actually induce their body to enter an ""emergency" mode in which it begins to store fat even more efficiently. They compound the mistake by starving themselves, and when they inevitably return  to old eating patterns, even more fat is stored from the same amount of food they had been eating before the diet -and they gain back more weight than they lost! This is why our culture is so obsessed with losing "those last ten pounds". When people tell me they want to lose ten pounds, I ask them, "Ten pounds of what? Most often they're exercising in a way that causes them to lose water or muscle, not fat.  You can weigh the same amount today as you weighed ten years ago but be much less healthy because your muscle has been replaced with fat.  Muscle weighs more than fat, so if you weigh the same as you did ten years ago and your body is made up of even more fat, you're in deep t...

By the way guess who was guilty of this for several years. I pushed myself to "achieve" maximum heart rate: I would jump onto my Stair-Master and crank it up to the highest level, and go for twenty minutes. Or, after not having run in several weeks, I would go out and run five days afterward, but I believed that through this "no-pain,no-gain" discipline I was making myself more healthy! All I was doing was establishing a love-hate relationship with exercise. My mixed associations of pain and pleasure made me put it off as long as my conscience would allow,  then try to make up for lost time in just one session. Since then I've learned that when you begin to work out at a pace which immediately throws your body into anaerobic capacity, a very dangerous thing can occur. In order to supply the immediate demand for blood that anaerobic exercise requires for the muscles that need it most, your body shunts blood from critical organs like your liver and kid...

All exercise programs require that you begin by building an aerobic base - a period of time during which your entire exercise program is exclusively based upon aerobic activity without any anaerobic exercise at all.  This base period may last  from a minimum of two to a maximum of about eight months, during which your aerobic system is developed and maximized. This base period is then followed by anaerobic workouts of one, two, or sometimes three per week.  Properly developing your aerobic system will not only make you a better athlete, but it will also burn off the extra fat from your hips, improve your immune system, give you more energy, and keep you relatively injury-free. In other words it's a way to build your total health and fitness through both the proper conditioning of your metabolism for aerobic and when appropriate, anaerobic training. By creating an aerobic base, you'll also create a tremendous  amount of energy and endurance....

Most types of exercise can be either aerobic or anaerobic. The level of intensity determines whether you are using your  aerobic or anaerobic system.  Walking, jogging,running,biking, swimming,dancing etc. can provide either benefit. Lower heart rates make these activities aerobic, and higher heart rates make them anaerobic... Usually, tennis, racquetball, basketball, and similar sports are anaerobic. Most Americans have a lifestyle that causes them to live in a constantly anaerobic state, inundated with stress and demands, compounding it with the way they choose to exercise. As a result they train their metabolism continuously with anaerobic, i.e. burn glycogen as a primary source of energy. When the levels of glycogen become excessively low, the anerobically trained metabolism turns to blood sugar as its secondary source of fuel. This immediately disrupts your level  of health and vitality.  As your anaerobic demands rob your body of blood suga...

What is the difference between health and fitness ?  Fitness is "the physical ability to perform athletic activity. "Health, however, is defined as "the state where all the systems of the body- nervous, muscular,skeletal, circulatory, digestive, lymphatic, hormonal, etc are working in an optimal way...Most people think  that fitness implies health, but the truth is that they don't necessarily go hand in hand.  It's ideal to have both health and fitness, but by putting health first, you will always enjoy tremendous benefits in your life. If you achieve fitness at the expense of health, you may not live long enough to enjoy your spectacular physique. The optimum balance of health and fitness is achieved by training your metabolism.  The biggest difference between health and fitness comes down to understanding the distinction between aerobic and anaerobic exercise, between endurance and power. Aerobic means, literally "with oxygen" and refe...