Metabolic Conditioning Glossary
Definitions of key concepts, such as VO2 max, lactate threshold and more.
Definitions of key concepts, such as VO2 max, lactate threshold and more.
In this issue we’ll look at the distinctions between aerobic and anaerobic exercise in detail, and examine interval training.
Coach Glassman explains the points of performance for the GHD sit-up, L-sit, and hollow rock.
In this 2003 interview Greg addresses some of the most common questions regarding the problems with fitness training and what he’s doing about it.
The push-up, long a favorite among junior high school P.E. teachers and Marine Corps drill instructors, is for many more closely associated with punishment than anything else. Though common to group exercise programs, its use in serious strength and conditioning regimens is infrequent.
The needs of the elderly and professional athletes vary by degree, not kind. Where one needs functional competency to maintain independence, the other needs functional mastery to maintain dominance.
It is our aim in this issue to offer a model or template for our workout programming in the hope of elaborating on our concepts and potentially stimulating productive thought on the subject of exercise prescription generally and workout construction specifically.
The squat is essential to your well-being. The squat can both greatly improve your athleticism and keep your hips, back, and knees sound and functioning in your senior years.
Our purpose here is to show specifically how a simple goal, like rowing a seven-minute two thousand meters, can not only be systematically and deliberately approached from multiple protocols, but can generally encourage similar thinking in pursuing other fitness milestones.
The low-fat diet has cost millions unnecessary death and suffering from heart disease, diabetes, and, it increasingly seems, a host of cancers and other chronic and debilitating illnesses.