Share Everybody who does long, but especially intense, workouts needs a recovery drink. I didn’t think this was true when I started doing P90X – I had read advice to runners that if you run less than an hour, water is all you need. The idea behind the advice is that workouts shorter than that [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...Share Yesterday’s long run was 9.4 miles, just like last week, but instead of running trail 2A+2C, I just ran 2B. And by run, I mean run/walk up 4.7 miles, jog down most of the way pretty slowly, and slow down to a death march the last couple of miles. I have never been so [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...Share This paper is written by: David C. Nieman, Dru A. Henson, K. R. Maxwell, Ashley S. Williams, Steven R. McAnulty, Fuxia Jin, Andrew Shanely, and Thomas C. Lines. All the authors are at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, although some are in the exercise department and others in the biology department. The paper [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...Share This article, published in the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism in issue 20 (pages 56-62) of 2010, looks at whether supplementing with quercetin would improve the aerobic capacity (i. e. ability to breathe) and delay fatigue (getting tired) during long exercise sessions of healthy, but untrained, people. It was written by [...]
1 Comment. Continue Reading...Share In honor of National Employee Health Month, Avago is holding a 5K next Wednesday. I signed up and yesterday as I was picking up my bib, I noticed little red packages of something called FRS on the counter. I asked about it, and the wellness center director said that she was sent the sample [...]
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