July 2018 How Hard Do You Really NEED to Exercise? Many national and international health bodies have determined how much exercise one needs to live a healthy if not longer life. In general, the exercise …
REAL News June 2018
June 2018 All You Ever Wanted to Know About Planks but Were Afraid to Ask A brief history of spine pain and therapy takes us through the 1950s when the abdominal curl/crunch was highly recommended …
REAL News April 2018
April 2018 New Thoughts on The Body’s Response to Exercise An Australian study published in Cell Metabolism (Jan. 2018) hypothesized that the cells communicate with each other in response to physical activity. Vesicles, tiny protein-filled …
REAL News March 2018
March 2018 Potty Talk: FODMAPs & Athletic GI Distress Gastrointestinal distress is relatively common in endurance athletes: 30% – 50% report it. As blood is shunted from the gut to the working muscles during …
REAL News February 2018
February 2018 The Breakfast Debate, Part XXXX A recent study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology confirms what your mom told you well before you could read: Eat your breakfast. Previous …
REAL News January 2018
January 2018 Low-Carb for Athletes: A Fallacy of Anecdotism? Since the early 1970s, virtually all sports nutrition research has focused on the value and merits of carbohydrate consumption to enhance athletic …
REAL News – December 2017
Starting January 2017, REAL News will be scaled back to two pages so you’ll have more time to exercise. Shameless Self-Promotion: Personal Training Works!!! Small group personal training isn’t …
REAL News November 2017
November 2017 Little Blue Pill Helps Some Swimmers, Too A rare swimming disorder that affects only some open-water distance swimmers (military recruits, triathletes) may benefit from the same drug many middle aged men use …
REAL News October 2017
October 2017 The ‘Obesity Paradox’ Paradox What if a paradox is demonstrated to not be so paradoxical after all? Can a paradox be a double negative? The “obesity paradox”, developed in 1999 from observations that …
REAL News September 2017
September 2017 Specificity: Neuromuscular Adaptions Depend on How You Train There are two main principles to fitness training that determine your outcomes: overload and specificity. Overload refers to making …