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 – June 2020
June 2020 Is There An Exercise Routine Older Adults Can and Will Do? As we age, we lose muscle and bone mass. We don’t manage glucose levels as well. These predispose the elderly to …
REAL News – October 2019
October 2019 Step Frequency, Knee-joint Forces in Female Runners Running is mostly good for you. Studies have repeatedly demonstrated cardiovascular, metabolic, mental and musculoskeletal benefits galore. Furthermore they have recently shown that running does not …
Standing Desks: Why All the Rage?
In several other posts here, here, and here, I have discussed exercise and health science’s efforts to find the least amount of activity necessary to confer benefits. This goes back to my early years in grad …
The 100 Calorie Deficit
Ok, so people know they should be losing weight; they have read and heard it ad infinitum. They feel terribly guilty about their excess weight, their diet and exercise habits, and their burden on the …