The advent of microtechnologies has opened up avenues of function, commerce and study that make the old cordless phone an anachronism from the previous century. Whereas making a phone call once tethered you to the …
ACSM Annual Meeting Brings Nerves to the Forefront
The week of Memorial Day brings not just slow business but also the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine (www.acsm.org). This year’s event was in Denver, one of my personal and professional …
Heart Disease, Lifestyle Change and Motivation to Do So
What does it take to make you shake it up, to alter your lifestyle in a direction you and your loved ones know has to be done….or else? This rhetorical question is always on the mind …
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When Food Diversity Isn’t the Answer
There are nearly as many diets for weight loss in the media and at the country club, let alone at the gym, as there are people needing to lose weight. Likewise, there are nearly as …
An Hour a Day Keeps Early Death Away???
Much has been written in the news, the research world, and in my blogs and newsletters about sedentary living and how it impacts morbidity and mortality. There have been credible studies showing that even if …
Kids, Be Fit; Adults, Earn More
Is it possible that just by being fit as a kid, you can be more financially stable as an adult? So suggests a recent study in the ACSM’s MSSE (July 2016). But there are many …
Confusing Food Messages, Confusing Food Eaters
What is a ‘diet’? For the most part, a diet is what and how you eat, where the ‘how’ is as critical as the ‘what’. It is not, technically, a pre-packaged plan laid out by …
Fit Happens Summer 2016
Fit Happens Aging Starts….and Ends at the Ankles It is not often that I am willing to take a stand on something as broad and as complex as the aging process. For one thing, at …
We Are All Athletes Here
Everyone Who Does Fitness Training (of whatever sort or intensity) is an Athlete. This article, linked below, inspired me to write out a philosophy of fitness training that I have long espoused, though mostly to …
Why Fitness – and Exercise – Training is STRONGLY Recommended
Of course, you’d expect a fitness specialist, a personal trainer, and an exercise scientist to promote the regularity and consistency of exercise and fitness practices for overall health and well-being. Of course, that’s what I …
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