Is walking 10,000 steps a day actually good for you? The answer might surprise you.
The average person walks about 5,000 steps a day. But when you’re trying to improve your physical fitness, “average” isn’t going to cut it. Taking more steps per day has actually been associated ...
Athletes: How To Use Heart Rate To Increase Your Fitness
As an athlete, you are always looking for ways to improve your performance. One area that you can focus on is your heart rate. By understanding how your heart rate works, you can use it to increas...
Taking the Mystery out of Blood Oxygen
Athletes are often told to monitor their blood oxygen levels, but what does that even mean? And more importantly, why should you care? In this short blog post, we'll give you a quick overview of b...
The Pros (and a few Cons) of Fitness Trackers
Shouldn’t athletes wear fitness trackers that match their sport, not the other way around? The trouble is… there are a lot of opinions out there. Some people love them and some people think they'r...
Why we still know so little about concussion
It's been over a decade since the publication of Bennet Omalu's groundbreaking research on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) , and yet we still know relatively little about concussion and it...
A brief look at how heart rate is used in sport to improve player performance.
Most of us know that our heart rate goes up when we exercise. But did you know that heart rate can also be used as a tool to help improve your sporting performance? In this blog post, we'll briefl...