Biking & Always!

If you are following my blog, I believe you understood the importance of staying physically activity. Being active, perhaps doesn't amplify fitness beyond a point. What is the best way to measure, train and amplify your fitness. The magic word is Vo2 Max.  What is Vo2 Max Body inhales oxygen and pushes into blood stream during breathing. Heart pumps the blood into muscles, oxygen gets converted into chemical reaction which eventually fuels the muscle to do the work( Wow, Energy ). Vo2 max is the amount of oxygen your body can intake and pump them into muscle as energy during a hard workout. More the V02 max, more is your fitness. During hard workout, many of us would do heavy breathing. This is simply because, body needs to pump more blood into muscle as energy however soon you will realize your system is drained and ready to crash. While crashing is absolutely normal, the duration of crash is different for different people based on their fitness. Vo2 Max is the measurement  t...

Many successful people have one thing in common, focus & consistency. As we are in this abstract world where everything is subscription as service and have many STEM professionals working on quantum computing, space research, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, often we tend to forget one simple rule. All these advancement did not happen overnight. They all followed a theory "Start somewhere , don't overcomplicate and drive consistency over the period" Your Health - Big Picture View For most of us, being healthy means loosing weight but it is loosing the lifestyle and mindset that gets you there. Having a big picture view about your health would exactly enables you to put milestones to reach your goal.We all talk being proactive, smart, big picture strategies for our projects & work but never prioritize the same for health. Let's spend next 10 minutes just thinking about your health's big picture view Start somewhere In my previous blog post, I enco...

Human body is designed to move and it works best when we are active. Globally, 28% of adults(Age 18 and above) did not meet the world health organization requirement of 150 minutes physical activity per week. We tend to procrastinate the physical activities towards weekend and happily let Monday through Friday suck us in a chair/desk with lot of excuses to avoid physical activity Well, you live in an era where whatever you eat or breathe has inherent impurities that leads to health issues in the long run. It is super important now than  ever to prioritize health over anything else.  Sitting is new Smoking In recent times, you often hear the news that many people who are so healthy with no family heredity of heart or other major health problems die at young age(30 to 55). Do you know what is one of the biggest root cause for these deaths? Surprisingly, most people had a desk job for 12 to 14 hours with no physical activity. Doctors and researchers are alarming young adults with...

Basics of training Training is practices you employ on consistent basis to improve your capability. Training leads to increased neural muscular adaptability of your body. Training methodologies might differ however the base training where we increase the power without injury is based on heart rate model. The goal for this blog is to give good understanding on training zones, how to focus on heart rate based training and which zone you should train most to get the best outcome Training Zones There are 7 training zones that you should be aware off.  Zone -1 : Easy/Warm-up Zone -2 : Aerobic Zone -3 : Tempo Zone - 4: Sub-Threshold Zone - 5A : Super-Threshold Zone - 5B : Aerobic Max Zone - 5C : Anaerobic Zone - 1 Zone-1 is called recovery zone. Most of endurance athletes will call this as Easy/Warm-up zone. Ideal heart rate for this zone is 0-136 bpm. Typical reference is having a casual/mild brisk walk in a flat track/road will put you in this zone. This is the zone where the muscle st...

My next blog post is going to be a healthy debate on when to remain stateless and when to be stateful. There are pros and cons in both, choosing between them determines how much enjoyment, learning one will go through in his life. End of the day, our goal is to remain healthy, peaceful and explore every bit of this god gifted life.  Well, the title might sound I am extending my previous blog of mind-body sync but this time it is not about physical or mental fitness rather discuss my experiences about state a.k.a mindset or attitude towards life and how it impacts our daily routine. Einstein in his famous quote says "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." -- Albert Einstein What it implies is you need to focus on task in hand not the outcome. Whatever may your profession be, we all feel the pressure of being successful and always been preached to win but very rarely our education or corporate systems or society accepts failure as an answer. Perhaps,...

Have you folks felt your body get beaten up by end of your 9 to 5 working day? If the answer is yes, then I am sure you are like me, I used to think my fatigue is mainly due to the new work from home madness of jumping between meetings to meetings and switching the context constantly or dealing with unrealistic work expectations or dealing with people :). Well, don't be surprised, more than 95% of working professionals always tend to fall in to that trap. Do you really think your body tiredness is just because of work? Answer is no. It is your mind that makes you tired and if you pair it with poor life style, eating habits, it becomes a chronic issue of constant energy loss which make us blame it on others. Everything in Life is a choice we make.  Good news is, all these emotions are completely normal and one can devise a strategy to use art of living to overcome these challenges. First and foremost, I am not a certified healthy mind coach nor an expert in biology to define what go...

  The El Tour De Tucson is an epic cycling race in Arizona. It goes around the perimeters of the city of Tucson. This race is a historic event of the year 2021, as the 2020 race was cancelled due to the pandemic. The race had 6500+ registered participants with race challenges of 28, 57 and 102 miles. I am Karthik Krishnamani, an amateur cyclist from Phoenix, AZ who had an ambition of competing in a 102-mile ride and finishing it in less than 6 hours 30 minutes. Well, setting a goal is half of the effort, planning and achieving is the other half. Let’s dive in and get a picture of what it looks like to signup, commit and compete in a bike race and achieve the goal. Signup First things first, we need to understand what the El Tour De Tucson is https://eltourdetucson.org/ and my specific goal of a 102-mile ride course. Once I learned the rules and course map, I was thrilled and also anxious to see if I would be able to complete the race. A little monkey in my head said, you have alway...