Some Thoughts… On the average I have been running about 4 marathons a year. In the first few years, I still cannot feel the effects that it brings , but now slowly I am experiencing it. One of them is having a noisy cracking knee whenever I walk. Although there were no pain experienced with[…]
Being very sporty and active is good but in life, it is all about striking the balance and not overdoing things. This also goes the same with exercising. Which is why there is always a progressive training for building up and finally getting to the desired level of fitness which you want.
In general, to lose weight fast and effectively, you need to change your mindset completely. In a few recent meet up with my old school mates, some of the mummies were lamenting that their pregnancy extra piled up weight was unable to go down. This could be due to their lack of exercise and increase[…]
For runners, the feet and the leg are under constant pressure and “torture”. Especially when many of the runners fail to see the importance of proper warm up and cool down procedures. The feet is the first point of contact for walking and running. Having skin, nail and joint problems with the feet is also[…]
When going overseas for races, I tend to chose those races which are in South East Asian climate. I am really afraid of the cold. And to me to run in any temperature lower than 14 degrees Celsius is actually too tortuous. But many runners have reflected that running in colder temperature actually improves their timing. This is the reason when I chose some of the oversea races, I tend to go to those which have hot springs!
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Sometimes I feel runners do not really care about their body when they over train or go too deep into running. I will be touching a few things about beauty and health in the next few posts. Although we need to train hard, it should not be until that stage that we neglect our well being whether inside ( joints and organs ) or outside.
A normal, healthy person sheds about 50-100 strands of hair everyday, most of the hair will grow back. Each strand have a life cycle of about 3-6 years. Your scalp will start to show and looks bald when:
Once a while it is good to let it all go and rest your body. If you look at yourself, the way you run might have already shown signs of deviation and compromising. We got to admit, no matter how good you are, no matter how perfectly genetically engineered you are, unless you are artificial intelligence or Robots. There is no way that you can escape Sports injury. Therefore, good maintenance is essential and we need to be careful about it. Let us look at something about Lactic Acid.
What happens when we exercise strenuously?
We breathe faster and faster to attempt to shuttle more oxygen to our working muscles. The body prefer to generate energy burning the storage that we have with oxygen. However, when we require more energy than we can adequately deliver the oxygen, the working muscles will generate the energy anaerobically. In short, the body will breakdown the glucose to convert to energy using limited oxygen, a substance known as lactate will allow the glucose breakdown. In this manner the lactate level drives up and increase in the acidity of within our body. This is where we feel soreness and tiredness when we train too much or too hard.