Coronary heart disease – an introduction

Coronary heart disease – an introduction

Exercise is medicine.  Nowhere is this more true than in the area of coronary heart disease (CHD). The positive effects of regular exercise on moderating CHD risk are manyfold. Before we examine exactly how exercise can be beneficial (covered in the next blog) the...
How the body adapts to aerobic training

How the body adapts to aerobic training

In the last blog (click here) we looked at how the two main measures of aerobic fitness, namely maximal aerobic fitness and long duration aerobic fitness, can be trained. In this article, we will explore exactly how these methods of aerobic training change the body’s...
Types of aerobic training

Types of aerobic training

Introduction In the last blog (click here), I outlined 10 different measures of fitness. This included aerobic fitness; specifically, maximal aerobic fitness and long duration submaximal work. In this article, I take a look at the different types of training methods...
What is fitness?

What is fitness?

I am really looking forward to posting a series of blogs on the subject of fitness. The term fitness means many different things to many different people. Perhaps the most common view of what fitness constitutes is that it is related to how much endurance or stamina a...