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Does Your Heart Rate Really Matter?

Cross Fitnesss1 month ago010 mins

How would you feel if I told you that I would give you $100, give or take $200? For years, this is not unlike what we’ve done with heart-rate training. Measuring exercise intensity using heart rate has suffered from two major problems: Using relatively inaccurate formulas to make specific exercise-intensity recommendations Attaching discrete, seemingly all-or-nothing…

Maximizing Motor Learning: Cues Matter

Cross Fitnesss1 month ago014 mins

Do you tell your clients to “squeeze those glutes” or “tighten that core” during the execution of an exercise? These cueing techniques are spoken everywhere from physical therapy clinics to high-performance facilities across the globe. Presumably, the goal is to ensure that the participant is appropriately using the target movers and/or stabilizers for the task…