April 10, 2024
One of the traditional ways to improve your fitness and well-being is to hire a personal fitness trainer or a lifestyle coach. Alternatively, if you prefer to monitor your daily movement habits on your own, you could purchase an activity tracker. But does it work?
March 27, 2024
In this excerpt from our recently released book Stress Management, we will discuss mind-body approaches that can help you achieve optimal wellness, which is highly linked with lowered stress.
February 9, 2024
Popularity of high-intensity interval training has increased in recent years. Personal trainers, online workout sessions, and group exercise classes offer this style of training, sometimes referred to as metabolic training. But what is Metabolic Training? Metabolic training is a training method that combines higher intensity strength and metabolic intervals with cardiovascular training to produce maximum gains in muscle development, strength, and cardiovascular fitness.
January 17, 2024
Why write a book about yin yoga for people over the age of 50? The answer is simple. Yin yoga helps us become more flexible, less tense, and enjoy a good night’s sleep. Who doesn’t want to feel those benefits as we get older?
January 9, 2024
Many sports and events like running, cycling, swimming, soccer and many more are thought of as endurance activities because of their long duration. Although some of these events last less than an hour, others continue for hours, or days. Each endurance event has its own unique duration and challenges. For this reason, they have their own set of nutrition requirements for energy-yielding nutrients and fluids.
January 2, 2024
We have selected the most essential Human Kinetics titles for this year, covering yoga, strength training, sports history, and running.
November 28, 2023
Music preference whilst training is a very personal choice and can often cause debates in the gym when the tracks playing are not to everybody’s liking. The obvious choice for most people is to wear headphones and listen to their own carefully compiled playlist.
November 7, 2023
You love to exercise, push yourself and you appreciate the exhaustion that comes from a high-intensity workout. However, you don’t always get the results you want, you feel like your… READ MORE
October 31, 2023
With approximately 90% of adults in the world consuming caffeine daily and the UK coffee industry contributing over £17 billion to the economy each year, it is clear that caffeine is a staple ingredient in society and people’s lives. So what is caffeine? Visit our blog and find out more about the positive and negative effects of caffeine.
October 24, 2023
Kettlebell training is a very effective and efficient exercise method with many benefits. It improves your cardiovascular fitness while burning calories and provides a complete a full training session in a relatively short amount of time.
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