Creating Your Individual Exercise Program (Increasing Health Reserves) Before you start creating your individual exercise program, be sure to assess your physical condition and calculate your total score using the calculator (the methodology is described in the section “11 Tests for Self-Monitoring Physical Fitness”). Now create your exercise program using the summator…
A simple test to assess physical fitness (both jokingly and seriously) This simple test will help you independently evaluate your physical condition and obtain information on what needs to be done to improve it. If you answer affirmatively to several of the questions below, it can be assumed that you are…
11 tests for self-assessment of physical fitness With the help of these tests, you can independently determine your physical fitness and create a training program. A calculator is used to determine physical fitness, while a summator and a dosimeter are used to create an individual training program. The physical condition calculator is designed…
Harvard Step Test (Step Test = = test for cardiovascular and respiratory endurance) The test was developed at Harvard University in the USA in 1942. The Harvard Step Test quantitatively assesses recovery processes after controlled muscular work. In the Harvard Step Test, the physical load is given in the form of ascents onto a…
Your Biological Age On this tab, you will find tests that allow you to determine your level of physical fitness, your actual (not passport!) biological age, as well as the age and conditioning of the main systems of the body – cardiovascular and respiratory. Here you will also be able to create your…
Aluminum (Al) “Alzheimer” is very close! Aluminum plays an important physiological role in the human body – it participates in the regeneration processes of bone, connective, and epithelial tissues, influences digestive enzymes, and affects the function of the parathyroid glands; however, its excess can lead to the…
Zinc (Zn) High testosterone, healthy prostate, nails without white spots. Zinc is a macroelement that in the human body participates in protein synthesis, copying genetic material, hematopoiesis, functioning of the immune and endocrine systems, and acts as a cofactor for several hundred zinc-dependent enzymes. Deficiency causes growth retardation, dwarfism, delayed…
Macro- and micro-miracles In this tab, you will find information about the 44 essential minerals required by the human body. Here you will learn about their biological functions, complex interactions with each other, the body’s need for them, signs of deficiency and excess, ways to correct imbalances, main food sources, as…
Tea with a film: to drink or to survive… Chinese folk wisdom says: “Stale tea is like poison.” And in Japan, they say: “Yesterday’s tea is worse than a snake bite.” Tea (or, in other words, the extract of tea leaves) is a complex mixture in terms of chemical composition, consisting of catechins, their…
Omega-3 or Omega-6: Which is Better? As you already know, the main polyunsaturated fatty acids are omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids, which have been the subject of much discussion in the press and on television recently. Now that such a large number of supplements based on omega-3 fatty acids have appeared, the question inevitably arises:…