Eating Carbohydrates Before Lifting Weights Can Help You Lift Heavier Weights

How We Learned That Lactic Acid Is Good For You

In the 1920s, experiments suggested that the accumulation of lactic acid in the bloodstream interfered with a person’s ability to exercise by causing muscles to stop contracting. However, Carl and Gerty Cori won the 1947 Nobel Prize for discovering the “Cori Cycle,”...
Eating Carbohydrates Before Lifting Weights Can Help You Lift Heavier Weights

Intervals for Everyone

All healthy people can benefit from some form of interval training. They can pick up the pace for a few seconds while walking, running, cycling, swimming, skiing or skating, and then slow down when they feel the least discomfort.  Intervals for most people means to...
Eating Carbohydrates Before Lifting Weights Can Help You Lift Heavier Weights

What is Lactic Acid?

When you exercise, sugar is broken down into different chemicals, to produce energy for muscles. As long as you get all the oxygen you need, the final products are carbon dioxide and water, but if you exercise so vigorously that you can’t get the oxygen that you...