Sports Training/Nutrition (01)

Buyer's Test for Heart Rate Monitors
This guide can help athletes purchase a heart rate monitor. It discusses what features you need in a heart rate monitor, how your needs will grow and vary and choosing a heart rate monitor in your budget. The basic heart rate monitor is called a "continuous read" monitor, while the second class of monitors are zones monitors. The third type monitor is the most sophisticated and they are called "downloadable" monitors. This article also has information about making the commitment to wear a monitor, as well as heart rate monitor maintenance and repair, as well as choosing features and setting up a budget.

Healthy Dieting and Sports Nutrition
This article starts off by talking about fad diets. Carbohydrate-rich foods, high-fat foods, low protein foods, have all been targeted as culprits for the nation's high rates of obesity, cancer and cardiovascular disease. Most of these diets fail to tell you what foods should be included in your diet, and instead emphasize what to avoid. This article has some tips for healthy eating, such as eating more sources of vegetarian protein, fruits and vegetables and more unsaturated fats.

Monitoring Heart Rate Training Zones
Heart rate training zones are calculated by taking into consideration Your Maximum Heart Rate (MHR) and your Resting Heart Rate (RHR). Within each training zone subtle physiological effects take place to enhance your fitness. This website includes information about the various training zones, so you can see which one you fall into while you're training and monitor your progress. You can even calculate your heart rate and see which zone you fall into with a calculator that lets your plug your individual numbers in.

Too Many Vitamins Can be Harmful
Vitamins, for athletes and triathletes, should be an essential part of your everyday intake, there are certainly perils in over-indulging in such products. The term "megadosing" refers to the condition in which you intake more than 10 times the determined RDA (Recommended Dietary Allowances), a condition that can ultimately prove to be hazardous to your health, as noted in this article. It says that your body will store essential vitamins and minerals until needed, but when it is housing excessive amounts or more than necessary, it can take on a toxic effect, and organs can be put at risk. The vitamins most dangerous to megadose on are the fat-soluble ones, namely Vitamin-A, Vitamin-D, Vitamin-E, and Vitamin-K.