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Power food for your workout – Eating for Fitness Recipes
You may not be a competitive athlete, but supplying your body with energy and proper recovery is just as important to you as for a top athlete.
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Ginger Papaya Smoothies
Smoothies can make a delicious workout recovery snack, this recipe has the ideal ratio to speed recovery immediately after exercise. Dates are high in glucose, which makes them the perfect natural choice to re-fuel your body. Ginger has anti-inflammatory properties, aiding in recovery and helping to keep any inflammation under control.
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Fueling during exercise
In general, the recommendations for fueling during exercise are: If you are exercising for less than 45 minutes, no need for fuel during exercise. (As always, enjoy a pre-exercise snack.) For 1 to 2 hours of exercise, target about 30 grams of carbs/hour (120 calories). For 2 to 3 hours of exercise, target about 60…
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Triathletes Cheat Sheet – Miles to Kilometers
Here is a cheat sheet conversion table for converting miles to kilometres:
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Treadmill cheat sheet – speed conversions, pace times and target distances table
When weather conditions are unsafe in the winter months, I often do my running on a treadmill at the Gym, treadmill running is an odd alternative, but there are a few things you need to know. If you’re running at speeds under 9 miles an hour (a very fast 6:40-minute-mile pace), treadmill running burns about…
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Triathletes Cheat Sheet – 400 meter track workout in miles
If you do a lot of interval training on a 400 meter track, here is a conversation table for 400 meters to miles by lap. Laps Miles 1 0.25 2 0.5 3 0.75 4 1 5 1.25 6 1.5 7 1.75 8 2 9 2.25 10 2.5 11 2.75 12 3 13 3.25 14 3.5…
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Freestyle Breathing Technique
Found this website that gives good illustration on how to do freestyle breathing correctly. http://www.swimsmooth.com/breathing.html
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Web Site: Insight to running on a treadmill training
As winter is coming, we still need to keep our running muscles active. Here is a site that is useful for you that is running on a treadmill.
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Triathletes Cheat Sheet Kilometers to Miles
Here is a cheat sheet conversion table for converting kilometres to miles: 1 Mile = 1.6093 Kilometers – 1 Km = 0.6214 Miles You can also check out my Treadmill cheat sheet – speed conversions, pace times and target distances table You can also check out my Triathletes Cheat Sheet Miles to Kilometers
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Understand carbon offsetting
To understand carbon offsetting, one must first have at least a general understanding of carbon emissions, also commonly known as “greenhouse gases“.