Training science digests

Table of contents:

• Weight control and exercise
  • Weight control
  • Weight-Loss Myths and Truths
  • Weight Loss survey results: which methods worked?
  • What controls our appetite (podcast available)
  • Strategies for losing weight
  • Weight Loss Training
  • Weight-loss training (podcast available)
  • Weight loss calculations (podcast available)
  • Burning fat better (podcast available)
  • Ideal Running Performance Weight Ranges
  • Fuels used during a marathon (podcast available)
  • Energy homeostasis and yo-yo dieting (podcast available)
  • Effects of exercise on food intake (podcast available)
  • Carb./fat use versus exercise intensity (podcast available)
  • Oral contraceptives and fat burning during exercise
  • Nancy Clark's 9 Steps to Successful Fat Loss
  • Training Zones for Elite Endurance Athletes
• Your health and exercise
  • Aging runners have reduced disability and mortality rates (podcast available)
  • Ambulatory cardiac patients and aerobic capacity measurement
  • Anxiety and exercise
  • Less likely to get depressed
  • Less likely to get dementia
  • Less susceptible to depression
  • Marathon running after a myocardial infarction (heart attack)
  • Physical activity and leanness trump age in aerobic fitness (podcast available)
  • Reduce blood pressure
  • Dementia and Alzheimer's disease
  • Exercise and type 2 diabetes mellitus
  • Exercise helps women to stop smoking
  • Exercise versus losing weight in reducing cardiac events in women
  • H&E: Exercise and type 2 diabetes mellitus
  • Health care costs of obesity, overweight, smoking and problem drinking
• Diet
  • Diet sodas - how many can we drink? (podcast available)
  • Fad Diets
  • Caloric needs
  • Effect of dehydration on skills
  • Protein requirements
  • The Truth about Coffee
• Exercise-induced asthma
  • EIA and Olympic athletes
  • Management of exercise-induced asthma for athletes
  • Mechanism of exercise-induced asthma
  • Management medicine #1: Inhaled corticosteroid
  • Management medicine #1: Inhaled corticosteroid
  • Management medicine #2: beta2-agonists
  • Inhaled salbutamol not help non-asthmatics
  • Problems with daily use of beta2-agonists
• Sports
  • Endurance performance factors
    • Training intensity and growth hormone (podcast available)
    • Training intensity and HGH
    • Lactate threshold (podcast available)
    • Measuring our own VO2max by ourselves
    • Maximum aerobic power (VO2max)
    • Linear increase in aerobic power
    • Adaptation rate to interval training
    • A no-exercise estimate of VO2max
    • Benefits of training above lactate threshold
  • Running
    • Running and arthritis
    • Top 40 Boston qualifiers (podcast available)
    • Using orthotic inserts
    • Ideas about orthotics
    • Required marathon times to qualify for Boston
    • Knowing if you are ready to try to BQ (Boston qualify)
    • Estimating your time in middle and long distance races (podcast available)
    • Common Running Ailments: Causes and Treatments
    • Runners' high
  • Cycling
    • Technologies to help us go faster
    • Resistances to speed
    • Hill climbing and hydration
    • Commuter bike fitting
    • Bike fitting-pelvic rocking
    • Pedal power versus speed
    • Aerodynamic drag for pro cyclists
    • Hydration and cycling less than 1 hour
  • Swimming
    • Swimming in a straight line
    • Energy cost (of swimming)
  • Golf
    • Golf ball dimples
    • Golf-specific conditioning
    • Health benefits
  • Avoiding injuries in mountain biking
  • Soccer/football
    • Curve kick-Part 1 (of 2)
    • Curve kick-Part 2 (of 2)
    • Towards a stronger kick
  • Hydration indicator
• Women and athletics/sports
  • Strength
  • Women: Strength
  • Women: Quality vs. Quantity in Training
  • Quantity vs. Quality
  • Women: Psychology
  • Psychology
  • Perceived exertion and anaerobic threshold during the menstrual cycle
  • Women and athletics/sports
• Heart Rate Variability
  • An Historical Overview
  • Components and origins of heart rate variability
  • Autonomic and non-autonomic control of the heart
  • Heart rate variability at respiratory frequencies
  • Heart rate variability at low frequencies
  • Heart rate variability at very low frequencies
  • Measuring heart rate versus beat-to-beat period
  • Adjusting training schedules after heart rate variability analysis
  • Heart rate variability analysis based on Windows/Polar combination
  • Heart rate analysis software based on R
  • Amateur Athlete's heart rate variability software