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Exercise of the Month: Crunch with a Twist

Exercise of the Week: Crunch with a Twist

February 3, 2015 By Irv Rubenstein

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Filed Under: Exercise of the Month Tagged With: core strength, crunch, Exercise, fitness

Exercise of the Month: Stand and Press

Fit-Happens --Winter-20194

January 3, 2015 By Irv Rubenstein

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Filed Under: Exercise of the Month Tagged With: Exercise, fitness, overhead press, step ups

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REAL-News --June-20202

August 10, 2013 By Irv Rubenstein

This issue comes up often in lay magazines and other venues: how do you choose a personal trainer? Actually, this could also be asked as to how you choose a massage therapist, a psycho-therapist, or …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: business, consulting, fitness, personal training

Thoughts on depression, and depressing thoughts

Thoughts-on-depression,-and-depressing-thoughts

June 6, 2012 By Irv Rubenstein

This article, from a study in Great Britain, describes what some might conclude is depressing news: that the addition of an exercise component to a treatment process for depression does not yield any better results …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: beverages, depression, fitness, health, real food, sugar

Athletes are the Most Gullible People ….(originally posted 09/10/11)

REAL-News --November-20191

November 1, 2011 By Irv Rubenstein

Athletes will try anything it seems. follow the link above and learn about the next crazy thing on their ever-lasting pursuit for greatness. Hard work aside, that magic bullet just seems to be at the …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: doping, extreme athletes, fitness, football

On Barefoot Running

August 19, 2011 By Irv Rubenstein

Barefoot running, and barefoot shoes, are the newest things in fitness and in fitness gear. I’ve commented and written before on this topic and more studies keep popping up about it. Most are positive – …

On Barefoot RunningRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: barefoot shoes, bereft running, fitness, heel striking

HAES it Going?

August 5, 2011 By Irv Rubenstein

It’s intentional: HAES = Health at Every Size, a program to help overweight women come to grips with the lifestyle patterns that have contributed to their heaviness, but NOT by enforcing weight loss. Rather, it …

HAES it Going?Read More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: fitness, health, nutrition, well being

Bikini Bodies – Few and Far Between

Bikini Bodies - Few and Far Between

May 29, 2011 By Irv Rubenstein

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 …

Bikini Bodies – Few and Far BetweenRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: bikini body, body weight, fitness, in shape, out of shape

Genetics, Exercise, and You

REAL-News --September-20201

March 19, 2011 By Irv Rubenstein

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, …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: achieve well-being, fitness, genetics, health

News to You’s Guys

February 27, 2011 By Irv Rubenstein

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 …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: aging, cardio, fitness, strength training

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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 …

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