There are many types of gym equipment and when choosing it is important to understand the fitness goal that you are working toward, because each piece of equipment focuses on different fitness outcomes.

At every aging event in life, we tend to make new resolutions related to weight loss, increasing cardiac output and a slimmer look. The media helps by creating images and stories of success with various exercise equipments. Impressed by these stories, we start dreaming about the results and finally work toward getting a brand new fitness equipment promising a perfect shape. These promises fade shortly, due to lack of interest and time. That is the reason that it is so important to choose the most appropriate gym equipment to help you stay interested and obtain your goal.

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A while back I received an email from a friend who told me he really wished he could teach martial arts for a living, but he has a career in government and just can’t see how to open a school.

No problem. Owning a school isn’t the only way to teach.

About a month ago I did two back-to-back one hour self defense-seminars for a large law firm on K Street in downtown Washington, D.C. It was catered, and teleconferenced to their other locations. I worked with several hundred people.

They paid me $1250.00.

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When training for the bike leg of a triathlon, consistent stressing of the body’s lactate production mechanism is the key to achieving a faster race pace on the bike and a smoother transition from the bicycle to the run. If you don’t know too much about the lactate threshold, click here for a previous article on the topic. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to train at lactate threshold for long periods of time, such as the time required for completion of a 40K Olympic distance cycling time trial. This is because the body buffers lactic acid by combining lactic acid’s hydrogen ions with carbon dioxide (for subsequent transport in the bloodstream and removal as carbon dioxide at the lungs). To blow off this CO2 and retain a physiologically normal blood pH, you must maintain a level of ventilation that can be quite difficult. In addition, that acidic burn just *hurts*!

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