N2 Stage: You’re asleep but not too deep during this stage. Your heart rate decreases, your upper airways relax, and your body temperature drops. About half of the time you spend asleep tends to be in this stage. Although sleep is still light in this stage, you’ll have less awareness...
4. Low Resting Heart Rate Yourresting heart rateis the number of times your heart beats per minute at rest. In general, the average, untrained adult will have a resting heart rate somewhere between 60 and 100. However, in an ideal distance runner’s body, because of all those hours of ...
Below are two body fat percentage charts, which I will walk you through and provide insights into how to read each chart. The first chart from the American Council On Exercise (ACE) does not include age, but the Jackson-Pollock chart does. If you read until the end, I’ll share a bet...
As you can tell from the chart, at 173 pounds I'm up to 22 pounds overweight for my medium-size frame. I'd like to think that because I have large quads due to tennis, I'm not that much overweight. However, that's just another stupid excuse! A couple of years ago, when I was...
As you can tell from the chart, at 173 pounds I'm up to 22 pounds overweight for my medium-size frame. I'd like to think that because I have large quads due to tennis, I'm not that much overweight. However, that's just another stupid excuse!