Health and Exercise Tips Book

By Todd Daigneault

Health, wellness and exercise tips for a modern global society. Tips that encompass everything from preparing to run a marathon, through other aspects of health and well-being, including what kind of vitamins and herbs for the elderly. The book also looks at mental and emotional health wellness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Todd Daigneault
• Release date: Aug 30, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311288110

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Health and Exercise Tips Book

(c) 2014 Todd Daigneault

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Running Tips

To build speed, you have to build up endurance first. There is no speed without endurance. Step one to building up speed is to start running up hills. This endurance building exercise is excellent for developing speed.

It takes huge endurance to climb a steep hill as a runner.  Do this enough times and you are transformed into a fast runner in no time.  But never just do hills-integrate them into varying distances over flat or semi-flat land.

Either integrate hills into your normal run, or just do a hill repeatedly as part of your speed building program. If you average about 15-20 runs a month, try and do a steep hill at least five times a month. This excellent exercise is basically a slower form of sprinting over significant resistance. You are really sprinting without even realizing it because it's so much slower to climb the hill in the first place. But it takes just as much energy and endurance to climb a hill than it does to sprint.

Then when you really are prepared to run fast over much flatter lands, you'll find it much easier to do. Hills are a basic plus in developing speed, for they also build up the endurance to do it. Try hill running-not over small rises or inclines in your respective neighborhoods, do significant  hills.

Every aspect of your physical body keyed to running develops much faster and more efficiently.  Additionally, incorporate weight training into your exercise regimen, to help with the development of leg and upper body muscles, which help propel you upwards and ultimately forwards.  Also, cardio machines at the gym help a lot with building up speed as a runner.

As your speed starts to increase, try and run as fast as you can, not only during short runs, but in much longer runs. Running fast for gradually increasing periods of time during long runs helps build up the speed necessary to have excellent times in long races such as half and full-marathons-as well as the short ones.

The human body can adapt quickly and easily to running faster over time, if done properly and correctly with proper warm-ups and cool downs.  Watch your diet as well, making herbs like cordyceps a plus.  This powerful herb helps to build up the strength of the lungs-a necessity for fast running.

Preparations before Running a Race

One of the most important things to do before a running race is to hydrate yourself. Many runners don't realize if you're going to be performing at peak capacity during a road race, you must be well-hydrated. Fluid will help to maintain your body temperature so you'll feel cooler during a race. A well hydrated body will perform better. Try and avoid a