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A NYT article last week posited the power of interval training to alter the mitochondrial genes in the elderly – aaargh, those over 64; that is, MY age – versus in younger exercisers. With an …
What’s the Best Workout for Boomers? Any Workout is BestRead More
New Year, New President, New Gym It’s been a 2-year presidential campaign, but last November Americans made their choice and we now have a new president. Like any change, there’s the excitement and fear that …
What a blog title that is, right? Last week, out of the blue, a trainer from Canada, Olivier Poirier-Leroy, contacted me after seeing the STEPS Fitness website and asked if I would put together a …
The new year always starts slow, especially when it comes to catching up on the old year. It’s been a very exciting year what with the election cycle and all the political news to read, …
Brain Games May Not Be as Efficient as Exercise We’ve all experienced it – starting a sentence, seeing a face, walking into a room, writing a blog…and then forgetting what we were going to say, …
Trying to Remember: The Tip of the Tongue Syndrome of the Aging AdultRead More
October 2016 Resistance Training and Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema: Treatment or Waste of Time? Breast cancer is the most common cancer for American women and the second leading cause of cancer death. Despite great new techniques …
This may sound wonky but I believe it highlights a few training considerations fitness pros and acolytes might consider. First of all, when it comes to strength or resistance training (RT), as compared to aerobic …
Strength with Speed vs Sustained Contractions: Which is Better and Why (Not?)Read More
The on-going debate on what is the best way to train your muscles for strength and/or size started in earnest back in the mid-1950s, about when Progressive Resistance Exercise (PRE) came into the lexicon. At …
To Get Bigger, Stronger Muscles You Gotta Lift til It Hurts (a little)Read More
Reported this month in Harvard’s Heart Letter (newsletter), Harvard’s Men’s Health Watch (newsletter) and UCLA’s Healthy Years (for aging-related health newsletter) are the results of a study published in the American Journal of Medicine declaring …
Big-Time Study Shows Strength Training for Seniors Makes Them YoungerRead More
What a boring topic, right? I mean, how many news pieces do you have to see on TV or read in mass media to find out what has been touted for at least 20 years …
