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Apr 07, 2020

April 7, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

Covid-19 Workouts by Dr Irv: #2

Do you realize how quickly you lose fitness and overall conditioning when you can’t maintain your exercise regimen? This study will scare you into doing something. So let me help. Each day I will post 4-5 exercises that you can use to stay in shape as this shelter-in-place seems to be dragging on. Below areRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: achieve well-being, at-home workouts, coronavirus, covid, Exercise, fitness, musculoskeletal improvements, physical activity

Apr 06, 2020

April 6, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

Covid-19 Workouts by Dr Irv: #1

Do you realize how quickly you lose fitness and overall conditioning when you can’t maintain your exercise regimen? This study will scare you into doing something. So let me help. Each day I will post 4-5 exercises that you can use to stay in shape as this shelter-in-place seems to be dragging on. Below areRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: achieve well-being, coronavirus, covid, Covid-19, Exercise, musculoskeletal improvements, quarantine

Feet:-From-the-Ground-UpMar 13

March 13, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

Feet: From the Ground Up

For a few years, while she was establishing herself as a neuromuscular expert on feet, Dr. Emily Splichal, a NYC podiatrist, was a source of highly technical yet superbly functional webinars (this is but one link on youtube) on the foot. I would strongly recommend them to anyone who works with athletes prone to footRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: barefoot, barefoot running, big toe, field of health or exercise science, reduce your risk of falling, short foot exercise, strength training, toe yoga

Feb 24, 2020

February 24, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

Names, Titles, Honors: What Makes a Personal Trainer of the Year

Earlier this month, at the University of California-Irvine, the MedFit Professional magazine (MFP) honored 12 personal trainers who’d been nominated for Trainer of the Year each month in 2019. I, personally, was given such an honor last Spring, and felt that the MFP had some reason for bestowing it on me. Over 10 years ago,Read More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: medical fitness, Medical Fitness Education Foundation, Medical Fitness Network, MFN, Trainer of the Year

REAL-News --October-2022Feb 18

February 18, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

Pain: The Fitness Dilemma Discussed in Hush Tones

A provocative article in the New York Times back in December 2019 offers a layman’s perspective on pain that raises more questions than it answers. In brief, it posits the prevalent theory that the brain perceives some ‘sensation’ and then labels it ‘pain’ in some instances and some people but not in all. So let’sRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: field of health or exercise science, injury, pain, sprain, strain, tweak

Part-1:-The-Diet-Obesity-Debates-Continue1Jan 16

January 16, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

Soda Safety…Again

Not long ago, I wrote about the ongoing controversy with artificial sweeteners in the American diet and culture. An article from September 2019 in the Washington Post brings more to bear on this topic, not for the findings but for the conversation around them. First, the article addresses the results of a European study inRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: artificial sweeteners, coronary heart disease, diet, heart disease, soda, sugar, weight management

REAL-News --March-2020Dec 16

December 16, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

Is Overeating/Obesity an Addiction?

When the originally-named Eating Disorders Coalition of Tennessee (EDCT) was founded in the early 2000’s by Dr. Ovidio Bermudez of Vanderbilt University (at that time; now with the Eating Recovery Center of Denver, CO), Reba Sloan, R.D., now-deceased Karen Silien, psychologist, and Nan Allison, R.D., among others, its stated mission was to create awareness andRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: addiction, addictive behavior, eating disorders, obesity, overeating, overweight

Soda-Safety...-Again1Nov 16

November 16, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

Disease, Apps and Ultimate Responsibility

I receive occasional offers from other bloggers to include or add onto my site as this sharing boosts one’s own visibility on the web. I vet them for content and redundancy – that is, if I’ve already addressed a topic – as well as readability. The latter pertains to it complexity or lack thereof. Some,Read More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: diabetes, diabetes apps, diet, Exercise, health apps, weight management

REAL-News --May-2021Oct 17

October 17, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

Bingeing at Night: A Hormonal Habit?

A recent article in the NY Times reviewed a scientific article in the December issue of the  International Journal of Obesity that reinforced what many fitness and wellness professionals suspected: that nighttime binge eating may be more than habitual; it may be hormonal. The article suggested that obese people who binge eat – not all do, one mightRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: body fat, dieting, eating disorders, lose weight, obesity, weight loss

The-Real-Fake-News:-Processed-Food-Is-'Healthy'Oct 15

October 15, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

The Real Fake News: Processed Food Is ‘Healthy’

The fitness field is replete with pseudo-science especially regarding diet, dieting and diets. While personal trainers may have some ‘expertise’ in nutrition based largely on what they learned in their certification prep courses or at professional conferences, they also have some serious biases often based on what’s worked for them. These could be appropriate forRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: diet, field of health or exercise science, healthy diet, obesity, processed foods, unprocessed foods, weight loss

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