September 2021 Do Common Clinical Measurements Predict Running Injury? Runners suffer injuries at a pretty high rate – 20%-80% have an injury at any point in time. Since running puts ~2.8 x body weight on …
REAL News – August 2021
August 2021 Physical Activity & Sleep vs Sitting Too Much We all have the same 24 hours in a day, and how you spend many of those waking hours impacts your health and wellbeing. The …
REAL News – July 2021
July 2021 Whole Body Vibration Boosts Muscle Blood Flow Whole body vibration (WBV) training broke into the mainstream in the late 1990s with the introduction of affordable platforms that allowed for adjusting the amount of …
REAL News – June 2021
June 2021 Carbs + Protein vs Carbs for Recovery Carbohydrates – sugars, starches, fruits, veggies – provide the fuel muscles and other organs (heart, brain) need to function. In the body, the carbs you eat …
REAL News – May 2021
May 2021 Revisiting Sitting: Does Your Cardio Fitness Protect You? Sedentary living defines modern mankind. We have reviewed some of these effects here, here, here and here. And we now know that too much sitting …
REAL News – April 2021
April 2021 Why Exercise Doesn’t Burn Calories as Expected: Compensation We all grew up hearing a mile walk or jog burns 100 calories; that you have to burn 3500 calories to lose a pound of …
REAL News – March 2021
March 2021 Does Higher Protein Intake Boost Strength in Older Women? For several years now, studies have shown that increased protein intake helps older people slow the rate of age-related muscle mass loss (sarcopenia.) …
REAL News – January 2021
January 2021 Flexed-Hip Lunge vs Traditional Lunge: Function vs Tradition The lunge is a regular lower body exercise in almost every group exercise class and many lower body pre- and re-hab program. It is …