In the past few years, smartphone technologies have transformed the way people interact with their everyday lives, making it easier to connect with friends, be productive on the go, and access information about anything, anywhere. But one of the even more recent exciting developments has to do with the way that smartphones can improve our personal health and wellness.

With mobile and location-based apps, smartphone users now have the ability to track their personal athletic performance, measure their results and try to improve over time. One of the apps that runners use to run faster, longer and smarter is called RunKeeper. I interviewed a friend of mine who uses RunKeeper, Max Lambert, a consultant in Houston, Texas, for his thoughts on how RunKeeper has been beneficial to his life as a runner.

Read the full post on 3 surprising ways the RunKeeper app can improve your fitness.

Do you want to improve your health? Do you want to lose weight, get physically fit, or help counteract the effects of various health conditions like high blood pressure or diabetes? What if we told you that there was an easy treatment already available to you that could help reduce your health risks and improve quality of life at almost any age, with almost any health condition?

Dr. Mike Evans, a specialist in preventive medicine, made an amazing YouTube video discussing what is the #1 thing you can do to improve your health (the video is below).
He discussed an amazing, simple treatment that has been proven to have the following beneficial effects on people’s health:

Read the full post on What’s the #1 thing you can do to improve your health?.

If you have been following our blog for the past few weeks, you are ready to begin week 2 of 8 for your sprint triathlon training program. If you are reading our blog for the first time, we suggest reading from the start to get to this point.

Read the full post on Entering the World of Multi-Sport Racing, Part 3.

Time, Time, Time. You have accepted the multi-sport challenge and now it is TIME to get started. What better way to start than with the concept of TIME, by far the biggest fear factor most people attribute to why they think they can’t do a triathlon. You are a busy person with an active personal and work life and every minute counts, right? We get that. However, you may be surprised to learn that Tri training doesn’t have to take as much time as you think. The key is to adapt the training plan to fit into your lifestyle.

Read the full post on Entering the World of Multi-Sport Racing, Part 2.

A vigorous 30 minute run along a road with heavy traffic can increase the amount of carbon monoxide in the blood up to 10 times. That’s the same amount of carbon monoxide that you get from smoking a half a pack of cigarettes.