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Part 2: If you’re doing GLP-1 meds for weight loss, then you gotta do Weight LiftingDec 25

December 25, 2024 By Irv Rubenstein

Part 2: If you’re doing GLP-1 meds for weight loss, then you gotta do Weight Lifting

GLP-1’s are proving themselves as medical phenoms. They have been in existence for many years in the treatment of diabetes. They have demonstrated themselves as capable of reducing cardiac events, lowering blood pressure, cholesterol, heart failure symptoms, and even strokes. They have shown themselves effective in reducing the kidney problems that diabetes can cause inRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: exercise prescription, lean mass, muscle mass, resistance training, strength training, weight-bearing exercise

Part-1:-GLP-1-Receptor-Agonists:-The-New,-Improved,-and-Not-Fully-Understood-Weight-Loss-DrugsDec 08

December 8, 2024 By Irv Rubenstein

Part 1: GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: The New, Improved, and Not-Fully-Understood Weight Loss Drugs

Super-duper weight loss drugs (originally they were designed to help those with Type 2 diabetes, or T2D) like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, et al. have swamped the marketplace because of their unique pharmacologic actions compared to their predecessors. Earlier weight loss drugs and over-the-counter concoctions (like coffee and other caffeine-derivatives, as well as smoking cigarettes, forRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: body fat, bone density, diet, field of health or exercise science, lose weight, Moujarno, musculoskeletal improvements, Ozempic, resistance training, Wegovy, weight loss

Mar 22, 2024

March 22, 2024 By Irv Rubenstein

Weight Loss Principles: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Weight management is a, if not the, Holy Grail of lifestyle change for many, especially for women. Not that men don’t seem as concerned about their weight; it’s just that many men don’t see themselves as overweight when they look in the mirror – they see the same kid who played ball in high school.Read More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: antioobesity medications, diet, nutrition, Ozempic, weight loss, weight management

REAL-News--September-20242Jan 11

January 11, 2024 By Irv Rubenstein

Weight Management’s New Look

Sometime over the past 30+ years, many in the medical and fitness world came to a difficult and exasperating conclusion: weight loss is not so simple as eat less, move more. For the past 50 years or so the estimated calculus of 3,500 calories = a pound of fat – that is, eat fewer caloriesRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: obesity, Ozempic, semaglutide, Wegovy, weight management

How-Hard-Do-You-REALLY-Have-to-Work?Dec 02

December 2, 2023 By Irv Rubenstein

How Hard Do You REALLY Have to Work?

I want to discuss fitness training guidance. Long has it been that “use it or lose it” and “no pain, no gain” have anchored exercise theology. They have been the mainstay for much of modern fitness training lore. Today we still say ‘use it or lose it’ but we now say ‘no strain, no gain’.Read More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: cardio, exercise duration, exercise intensity, exercise type, exercise volume, perceived exertion, resistance training, weight lifting

REAL-News --September-20181Oct 10

October 10, 2023 By Irv Rubenstein

Part 2: Diet, Disease and Controversy

This is the second part of a previous blog post (“Life Changes: Diet for Living”) for which I will be offering more and more controversial information pertaining to diet and heart disease. There are many alternative diets out there; and in the more recent years, keto, carnivore, and animal-based diets have been on the rise.Read More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: Cholesterol, diet, HDL, high protein diet, keto, ketogenesis, LDL

Life-Changes:-Diet-for- LivingAug 24

August 24, 2023 By Irv Rubenstein

Life Changes: Diet for Living

The link between nutrition and heart disease has been up for debate since the 1960s. We can attribute the beginnings of the major research behind this topic to Dr. Ancel Keys, a physiologist. He determined that arterial plaques contain cholesterol, cholesterol tends to be related to saturated fat, and that heart disease is related to saturatedRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: Exercise, heart disease, metabolic disease, metabolism, nutrition, weight loss

There-is-No-Such-Thing-as-"Normal"Aug 12

August 12, 2022 By Irv Rubenstein

There is No Such Thing as “Normal”

Hello, I am Lucy Chilcutt, and I am guest-writing in place of Dr. Irv Rubenstein. To let you know a little bit about me: I am a senior at Cumberland University where I play basketball and softball and study Exercise and Sports Science. My chosen field of study is not entirely congruent with what IRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: athlete, mental health, sports, sports psychologist, sports psychology

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