Ask my family, of the three components of fitness (Training – Nutrition – Rest) which is most important to me and without hesitation they will say Rest! Or in my case Sleep! I'm habitual in my sleep habits because a good night's sleep is paramount to my effectiveness the following day.
So when I heard that today is Sleep Apnea Day here in the USA, I though I should do my part to help inform you so that you can in turn inform your students.
Sleep apnea’s most frequent form is obstructive sleep apnea when the sleeper’s tongue and soft palate fall back against the back of the throat closing off the airway so firmly that the sleeper doesn’t fully inhale in repeated episodes that last 10 seconds or longer. In severe sleep apnea patients, the episodes can recur hundreds of time during the night, giving rise to serious impairment due to repeated oxygen deficiency.
My brother Dan has Sleep Apnea and for a long time he slept wearing the CPAP device shown in the video. Clumsy but a life saver for him and his wife 🙂
This tip maybe of value to some of your students, or maybe you…
I've never heard myself snore, but Amy, the Senior Group Fitness Instructor in our family has. I don't have Sleep Apnea but my snoring has had me evicted from my bed. We didn't realize it at the time, but my snoring was much worse in the winter = very dry air. Amy and I were on one of our working fitness vacations in Jamaica, when she commented that I don't snore there in the moist warm air. So we bought an inexpensive humidifier that now sits next to my side of the bed. As long as I remember to refill it with water, Amy has a quiet, restful night!
Hi John,
I'm having some printing format problems with some of the recent postings, including today's topic. When I go to print the document there is only an all black color sheet shown and printed. I thought something must be awry with my printer settings but it is not happening at various other sites that I am printing from.
Never having tried to print one of our posts, I wasn't aware that when you try to print a post or page it looks crappy and much of the printed page is in fact all black. Not good, considering how expensive printer ink is these days 🙁
The problem, it turned out, is the software that runs our site does a terrible job rendering the page so it can be printed.
Not anymore.
At the bottom of every post you will now find a little “Print Friendly” button. Give it a try and see how it displays a nicely formatted document that can print, create a PDF or email a copy to yourself or a friend. There's also a box you can tick to remove any images, saving your color cartridge from unnecessary use.
We've got this fabulous Public Radio station here in Minneapolis; The Current. Best described as Eclectic, you never really know what's coming next… but you'll probably like it 🙂 With Amy still in Mexico I was listening to the Current this morning when they played this awesome track that had me thinking “I could use this!” DELTA SPIRIT: CALIFORNIA has a solid 80 RPM beat that I can see as part of a long climb series. [wlm_firstname] how would you use this song?
Functional Threshold Power, better known as FTP, is the basis for establishing individual training zones using power/watts. Now that I'm teaching power based classes I've developed some questions about FTP and asked STAGES Indoor Cycling's Cameron Chinatti to answer them and give all of us a better understanding of Why is FTP Important? What exactly is FTP? and How can I help my students discover their individual FTP?
We are planning to have Doug Rusho (another Power expert) in the show soon to give all us Big Box Instructors an abbreviated version of an FTP assessment -OK not FTP exactly, but some benchmark that we can use during a typical class – giving our students some understanding of of where they should be working. Stay tuned 🙂
