You workout on a regular basis, you watch what you eat, you don’t smoke, you don’t drink excessively…. You know what, you are so good to your body that you should kick back and relax a little bit. Why not have a seat? A-HA! You fell for it. (I knew you treated your body like [...]
According to Shine (a magazine run by Yahoo!), step aerobics is one of “The Top 6 Calorie-Burning Workouts.” Here is the list, in order of calories burnt per hour: Kickboxing – 800 Jumping Rope – 780 Biking – 700 Running – 650 Step – 600 Zumba – 500 I wouldn’t take this list too seriously, [...]
It isn’t the first time a study for one sex has been wrongly generalized to cover both. This time it appears that the way to calculate peak heart rate, originally based on a study entirely of men, has been found to be wrong when applied to women. For men, the peak heart rate is 220 [...]