Fitness: Resting heartrate baseline

Fitness: Resting heartrate baseline: To establish your resting heart rate baseline values. This must be done when you wake up in the morning, before you get out of the bed. Food...

Resting heartrate baseline

To establish your resting heart rate baseline values. This must be done when you wake up in the morning, before you get out of the bed. Food, activity -etc  can affect your results.
Place 2 fingers on the opposite hand(palms up , thumb side ). Once you fill your pulse count for 15 seconds then multiply that number x4. Do this for 3 days , and then divide this number by 3 to get your average.Check weekly and if it is higher , then something is stressing your body: work, exercise, not getting enough sleep. Find out and make changes. The thought is the lower your resting heart rate is the better. Your heart is working more efficent , and even more stronger than the average. It doesn't have to work hard to do its job.

Average: 60-100 Beats per minute
Well Trained  athletes 40-60 Beats per minute

Fitness: Blood Pressure

Fitness: Blood Pressure: My doctor took my Blood Pressure and it was 132/80(prehypertension), and this made me very nervous, because my BP is always 120/80 or less. ...

Blood Pressure

My doctor took my Blood Pressure and it was 132/80(prehypertension), and this made me very nervous, because my BP is always 120/80 or less. Took my BP later that day and it was 118/62, and I took it later that night and it was 118/62 again. So take factors of nerves, time of day, and sitting in the office waiting for the dr into affect. Don't always believe the first reading. Always recheck!

Piriformis Muscle Stretches

When having sciatic problems in the buttock area(soreness).Stretching the Piriformis muscle and icing can be essential to relieving the pain. I will show some stretches( modify versions), and some advance versions as well.http://www.facebook.com/elottster . Go to my facebook for stretches.