Giveaway: Healthy Heartbeats
May 18, 2009 by admin
Filed under Women's Health
You take good care of making sure mom’s heart is warmed with love, now let Sportline equip her with the necessary tools to keep her heart healthy! Today’s giveaway is for a Women’s TQR Analog Heart Rate Watch, a ShrinQ Pocket Pedometer, and a HydraCoach Intelligent Water Bottle all courtesy of Sportline.
Women’s TQR Analog Heart Rate Watch: The “TQR” (pronounced tick-er) line of watches marks the first significant integration of heart-rate technology into the fashionable analog sport watch market. Among other things, this unique technology delivers ECG-accurate heart rate readings in three beats or less and without the use of …read more
Marathon runners learn to control their hearts as well as minds
August 22, 2008 by Kendra James, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
The final event of the Olympics leaves me wondering… just how do these men run a 26 mile race? The mental and physical strength that it must take to complete such a task is mind blowing. I searched around to figure out how the body and human heart can stay strong and continue to beat under such exhaustion. Here is what I found…
The researchers found that throughout the course of the races, the runners’ heart rate increased in a very controlled way, which appeared to be scaled to the distance of the race. When the heart rate response was scaled …read more




