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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 even a doctor. In other words, any time you seek the any service provider from gardener to house cleaner toRead More
The following article, about a recent study showing body shape impacts kidney function, is noteworthy for not just its thoroughness for the science behind it but for its use of two terms that have fallen out of favor: apple and pear, as in shape: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jj-virgin/body-shape-metabolism_b_3390774…. I bring this up because its worth remembering that sometimesRead More
Below is a letter to the editor of the IDEA Fitness Journal. It got published this month, June 2013. a little background may help. Several years ago, as I first started associating with psychologists who got the Eating Disorders Coalition of TN started, I was invited to speak to a group of nashville psychotherapists atRead More
I’ve addressed this issue before so you’re welcome to go thru the archives and read what I wrote then. Today, I write nothing different.The question at hand was inspired by a recent article in the NY Times by gretchen reynolds: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/03/reasons-not-to-stretch/ In this one, she alludes to two newer studies showing sustained – and thatRead More
In 1986, when I, as a PH.D. candidate nearly completing my studies, was considering career options, a colleague of mine, who eventually became my biz partner in this personal training endeavor (only to be bought out several years later), suggested I get into the new field of applied exercise science – which it was notRead More
The world of fitness and exercise is full of charlatans, pseudo-experts, and experts – often the same people at any one point in time. I know: I have been one of these at some point in time, the difference between these characterizations and how I’ve played them is that I seriously have tried not toRead More
Fitness, exercise, healthy diets, overall wellness, regular medical check ups, chilling out – these are all related to better health and even longevity. Many of us have given some thought, usually based on life experiences with others we’ve known and maybe even loved, as to what injuries, illnesses, diseases, etc we would really like toRead More
The world of fitness and exercise is full of mythologies, and this one keeps cropping up: you can run too much for good health. Ken Cooper, M.D., the father of aerobics, from Dallas, TX, said as much several years ago…when he stopped running so much, most likely because of the wear and tear it imposesRead More
Inspired today by an article in the sunday NY Times about psychotherapists branding themselves with websites. This is done by changing the wording, and some of the offerings, about what they do. That is, instead of doing just therapy, consider doing life coaching, which can be done by phone or on line. To find aRead More
By request, I was asked to comment on the products of Team Beachbody(c) since they, having read some of my posts, believe I may have some noteworthy comments to make on their behalf. However, they neither asked that I speak highly of their products, esp the new ones that are coming out this fall, norRead More
