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Evidence-Based Medicine Shows HIT Helps Fight Parkinson’s

Fit Happens - Fall 2018

December 17, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is one of the more prevalent and rapidly up-and-coming neurodegenerative diseases confronting our healthcare system as the Baby Boomers get older. With no cure in sight, various treatments have been approved for …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: exercise is medicine, high intensity training, HIT, parkinson's disease

The Greatest, Bigliest Exercise Ever

REAL-News - September-2020

December 11, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

Weight loss and weight management are major bugaboos for the fitness/wellness world, not because they’re not useful draws and marketing ideas but because they’re so very hard to do, like breaking up. As I’ve posted …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: burn off excess weight, childhood obesity, dieting, Exercise, resistance training, Weight loss vs Exercise gain

Exercise of the Month: November 2017

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November 26, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

Nordic Hamstring Curl The Nordic Hamstring Curl, made famous in the Rocky IV movie where he fought the Soviet boxer, Drago, gets its common name from studies that have demonstrated protective benefits to athletes. In …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: ACL, hamstrings, pre-hab, rehab

On Intermittent Fasting: Better than other low-cal diets?

On Intermittent Fasting: Better than other low-cal diets?

November 12, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

There are many ways to diet for weight loss but every single one of them require reducing caloric intake. Every diet, every diet book, and every diet guru merely promotes a way of making calorie …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: body fat, burn off excess weight, calories, diet, dieting, fasting, intermittent fasting, weight loss

Why Walk When You Can Sit?

Why Walk When You Can Sit?

November 3, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

I”m pretty sure by now that you can figure out where this blog post is going: Here he comes again talking about sedentariness vs being physically active. You’d be close in making that guess, but …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: achieve well-being, Exercise, fitness, physical activity, self-concept

From Music to Muscles

Core Exercise, Part 2: Training the Abs to Do Their Job2

October 25, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

Many studies have explored the effects of music on human emotions and motions. We’ve all had some experience with songs that revive the soul, allowing certain memories or feelings from way back to reammerge. Music, …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: achieve well-being, Exercise, music and exercise, music and health

King of Hearts: The One Bet That’s Well Worth It

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October 18, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

Last summer I went to the American College of Sports Medicine (www.acsm.org) Annual Meeting in Denver where I sat in on a lecture about the dangers of overexercise. The doctor who presented it was from …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: achieve well-being, cardiovascular, field of health or exercise science, Heart Health

Part 2: Sane Weight Loss: The 2/3 Diet

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October 2, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

In Part 1 of this two part series, I discussed the two articles on dieting and my experience speaking with professionals who help those with eating disorders resume/restore a healthy/healthier relationship with food…and exercise. I wrote …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: anorexia, bulimia, childhood obesity, diet, dieting, eating disorders, fitness, resistance training, Weight loss vs Exercise gain

Part 1: Sane Weight Loss: The 2/3 Diet

The Sounds of Obesity2

September 25, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

Normally I don’t get so worked up about weight loss but this article in the WaPo, “Intermittent fasting vs daily calorie-cutting diets: Both  help you lose weight”, on top of last night’s gathering at Table …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: body fat, childhood obesity, dieting, weight loss, weight management

Guts, Bugs and Health

Guts, Bugs and Health

September 14, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

There are plenty of reasons to be excited about the latest trends in wellness, especially if you’re healthy. You see, maybe your health is a function of those bugs in your gut, and not just …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: childhood obesity, gut bugs, microbes, microbiota, obesity

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