Cycle Torch Night Owl Bike Light

This is not your typical bike light. Cycle Torch Night Owl is Is rechargeable with USB and is super bright. 200 Real Lumens, So bright, it will light your way up to 200 Feet, making you visible Miles away. Versatile Bicycle Light Design with Universal Mount Fit Can be used for a wide range of sizes of bikes and attached to different areas on the bike. Equipped with a specially designed elastic rubber band to cover a big variety of handle bars and bike frames. The USB Smart Charging has a 4 hour charging time and has an automatic over charge & discharge cut-off system. This light has 4 working modes: High 200 lumens and will last for2 Hours. Medium 100 lumens will last 4 Hours. Low 20 lumens last for 20 Hours. Flash mode at 200 Lumens Pulse will go for 30+ Hours. This powerful light is super lightweight and compact with a weight of only 80 grams. When you receive you Cycle torch Night owl light it come in a nice storage box. It comes with a USB Bike Head Light, a Mount Rubber strap, a Micro USB Charging Cable, a Taillight which runs on batteries, and a User Manual. The light has a 1 Year 100% satisfaction guaranteed Warranty against ANYTHING! Enjoy and stay safe! https://cycletorch.com/products/night-owl-200-usb-rechargeable-bike-light #mycycletorch

Healthy Snacks and Foam Rolling

What better way to spend your Tuesday than providing your kids with healthy snacks, and to roll out your sore muscles on the foam roller. We played at the park and stayed fueled with #organic and #allnatural #snacks. Then took some time to roll out the overworked muscles with the @live.infinitely #foamroller. The spinal channel in the middle is supposed to help while rolling out your back, but I was just rolling out my quads from yesterday's squats. It was plenty firm for that with the strong PVC core. Now the whole family is ready to take on the rest of the day. 

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Teenage Athletes Guide to Weight Gain

Teenage athletes are often plagued with the inability to gain weight. Some Simply have not matured enough yet and their bodies have not fully developed others are just genetically built skinny. Others are running around too much and burning more calories than they are eating. Here is an article I found which might help those younger athletes trying to gain weight.

Teen athletes are bigger, faster, and stronger than ever. Unlike adults, who often battle with reducing body weight, many teen athletes struggle with wanting to gain weight--more specifically, muscle.

Muscle has approximately four times the metabolic activity of fat. It is actually more difficult to gain muscle than to lose fat. A careful review of an athlete's eating habits provides an invaluable opportunity to identify ways to increase nutrient intake with the idea of optimizing health and promoting muscle gain.

Teen athletes can use the following as a guide to promote weight gain.

Proper hydration is critical to optimize sport performance and prevent dehydration. However, the high intake of fluids can sabotage any weight-gain program. It is common for athletes to fill up on fluids and then not be hungry when it is time to eat.

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FLUID TIPS:

* Sports drinks for exercise. Sports drinks are superior to water for hydration purposes. Drink sports beverages immediately before, during, and after exercise. After exercise, drink until you are not thirsty anymore, and then drink two additional 8-oz. cups of the beverage.

* Timing is everything. Give yourself time to get hungry. Complete your re-hydration within 30 minutes of exercise. This will give you time to start feeling hungry; eat solid food within two hours of finishing exercise. Then eat a snack within two to three hours of that meal.

* Eat before you drink. Foods provide key nutrients that replete glycogen stores and support muscle recovery. During meals, eat until you are not hungry, only then should you drink.

* Think protein at meals and snacks. High-protein fluids contain key nutrients that support bone as well as muscle growth. Drink milk at meals and milk- or soy-based fruit smoothies or meal-replacement drinks with snacks.

THE PROTEIN MYTH

Athletes have higher protein needs than non-athletes, but protein needs are easily met through the diet, even for the teen athlete. If an athlete has adequate protein intake but inadequate energy (also called calorie) intake, protein will be used by the body for energy purposes instead of building muscle.

To gain weight, energy intake must be greater than energy expenditure (the amount of energy needed to maintain body functions, for growth and exercise). The following are recommendations for increasing energy and protein content of the diet:

* Eat more food. Take larger servings at meals, go back for seconds, and eat more frequently throughout the day. Eat three meals and at least two snacks (one snack mid-morning or mid-afternoon, the other in the evening) each day.

* Think outside the box. Love pizza? It's a great alternative to traditional breakfast foods, providing you with protein and key antioxidants, like vitamin C and lycopene, to help boost the immune system. If you are eating on the run, grab a couple of pieces on your way out the door. Pizza makes for a great snack, too.

* Think ahead. Pack healthy snacks that can easily be pulled out of your backpack and eaten on the run. Examples include granola bars, trail mix, bagels, yogurt-covered raisins, oatmeal cookies, and fig bars.

* Eat high protein foods. The sources of protein that the body uses most effectively come from eggs, meat, and dairy (milk, cheese, cottage cheese). Other good sources of protein are dry beans (like refried beans in burritos) and whole grains (whole wheat breads and breakfast cereals). Choose these high-protein foods at home and when you are eating out.

Being a better athlete starts with having a strong athletic foundation. The above guide will enable a teen athlete to include sound nutrition practices as part of the foundation to maximize what they want to accomplish in their athletic endeavors.

By Brenda M. Malinauskas (PhD., RD), Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition and Hospitality Management, East Carolina U., Greenville, NC and Reginald F. Overton (EdD.), Associate Professor, Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, Virginia State U., Petersburg, VA

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What Olympic Athletes Eat!

If you have ever wondered what it takes to fuel the bodies of Olympic athletes here is your answer. I found an interesting and informative article on CNN the tells you what a few of the athletes are eating to perform at such high levels.

If carb-loading were an Olympic competition, U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps would probably medal there, too. His day starts with three cheese-tomato-onion-fried egg sandwiches, an omelet, three powdered-sugar-covered slices of French toast, a bowl of grits and three chocolate chip pancakes to top it off, according to news reports.

Phelps told reporters earlier this week he was instructed to eat between 8,000 and 10,000 calories every day. Other news reports put the total as high as 12,000 calories.

This sounds extreme, even to some dietitians. But Olympic athletes' nutritional needs do vary widely according to their sports and body sizes, and swimming for long periods of time will naturally burn a lot of calories, experts told CNN.

Phelps' intake is just what his appetite requires, said Nancy Clark, a sports nutritionist in Boston, Massachusetts.

"He's a limousine, he's tall. A limousine needs more gas than a Mini Cooper," said Clark, who has worked with Olympic athletes. "Hunger is simply a request for fuel."
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Olympic Athletes

These people are some of the most in shape people in the world. They dedicate their lives to their sports and training in hopes of winning Olympic gold. Yes all Olympic athletes are in great shape but they train specifically for their sports and have different body types. Comparing Micheal Phelps, a U.S. swimmer and Usain Bolt, a Jamaican track & field sprinter it is obvious their bodies are very different. They are both built for speed but Phelps needs a huge upper torso for swimming compared to Bolt who needs his legs to power him over the track.
There are also sports like shot-put and rowing which are completely different and the athletes that compete in them need very different body builds. For example in the men's shot put final in Bejing the three men who got medals, Tomasz Majewski of Poland, Christian Cantwell of the USA, and Andrei Mikhnevich of Belarus are all huge men. They all stand above 6'5" Cantwell being the shortest and Majewski being the tallest at 6'8". Not only are they tall but they are wide, all weighing in around 300 bounds. Majewski is the lightest at 287 pounds and Cantwell the heaviest at 331 pounds. If these three men were to stand next to the gold medal rowers from Canada it would be obvious that they are two very different athletes. In the boat from Canada the shortest guy was 6'2" and the tallest was 6'6" and they all weight between 203 and 220 pounds
Clearly not similar body types at all. yes most of it has to to with genetics but alot of it has to do with sports specific training and getting you body to be exceptional at what you need it to do. swimmers need shoulders and lats to pull themselves theough the water. Runners need powerful and quick legs to push them across the track. Shot putters need arms and legs and hughe body mass to throw the ball the greatest distance. Rowers need speed and endurence in their legs back and arms to gracefully glide the boat acorss the water.

Welcome to Elite Fitness Training

This is a place for all things that have to do with living a healthy lifestyle. Getting in shape is more than just dieting and exercise. People often get frustrated with exercising becasue they are not seeing the results they want. This is becasue there is more to getting that dream body then most people think. Everyone has tried a dite at least once in their life, but in most cases they did not see results and gave it up. If they did see results they only kept it up for so long and then ended up quiting and gaining the weight back.
I will be providing vital information on things like excercise, healthy eating, sleep and other aspects of life to help everyone get a better understanding of what it takes to achieve their goals. stay tuned to learn about how you can change your life and start living healthy today.