A norwegian study reports that a single measure of fitness – your aerobic capacity, as measured by ml/kg/min of O2 your body can use during hi intensity exercise (max VO2) – can provide you and …
Bikini Bodies – Few and Far Between
I’ve been real busy lately, so I have not taken time to blog. Today my oldest daughter, Lydia, graduated high school after many grueling years of late nights and drama. Off to college next fall …
The Pain and Pleasure of Exercise
An interesting article in the Times debated, or better still explicated, the contention many athletic and competitive people make when they say they love exercising through the pain. It concludes that pain, as some describe …
Mind/Body
Mind vs body, or mind & body…or mind BECAUSE of body? Those are the questions. Whether tis nobler to develop the brain whilst allowing the body to rot from the inside out; or to develop …
Cardio Intensity, Calorie Burning, and You
There is enough data and now enough publicity out there to make you think you should don your old cleats and hit the track hard to get in shape, burn calories, and reduce belly fat. …
Core Exercise and Athletic Injury
I’ve been real busy of late so while I’ve kept up my readings, I have not kept up my blogging. Fortunately, tho, I came across this piece in the NY Times: Vexing Rise in Oblique …
Genetics, Exercise, and You
All me, and women, are NOT created equal other than in their humanity. You heard it here, first. By this I mean, we are equally human but do not have equal traits: smarts, looks, strengths, …
On Health and Health Care
The mckinsey quarterly report, an on line economics think-tank-like publication, comes from an economics/business perspective and articles deal with everything from banking to investing to market dynamics….to health care. Why not? That’s the fastest growing …
On Barefoot Running Mechanics
Barefoot running – I’ve been here before. The science is coming on stronger and stronger, tho not necessarily suggesting that we all toss our nikes in the trash. However, clearly there are biomechanical adjustments we …
News to You’s Guys
Being from Philly, I had to adapt some of my dialect once I settled in nashville 41 yrs ago. for one thing, I stopped referring to the fuel you put in cars as ‘gaz’ since …