When you exercise in the heat, your clothes can become saturated in sweat. Good thing right? .. only if you change your t-shirt and continue to stay dry. When we sweat, it is to lose heat that is accumulating in the body. However, at one point that sweat can become trapped in a microenvironment between the(…)
Have you ever felt shortness of breath, heavy coughing, chest tightening, or wheezing while exercising? If so, you may be someone that is experiencing exercise-induced asthma. It may be that exercise exclusively triggers these symptoms, however other asthmatics may experience symptoms due to environmental factors such as cold air, allergens, respiratory infections, some basic medications (e.g.(…)
Can a muscle fatigue after 2-3min work, at sub-maximal loads? Indeed it can. Muscle fatigue can be predicted by the tension time index (TTdi), a tool developed by Clanton & Grassino in the 1980’s. A tension-time index of 0.15 can predict fatigue when a muscle works indefinitely. The TTdi is the product of normalised force(…)
Squatting is generally termed the king of exercises. No exercise in the history of the world is used as a mainstay in so many different sports. Squatting requires mental toughness and physical strength. No amount of leg curls will prepare someone for feeling a bar on their spine; their erectors won’t be ready. Gorsuch, et(…)