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Barefoot running, and barefoot shoes, are the newest things in fitness and in fitness gear. I’ve commented and written before on this topic and more studies keep popping up about it. Most are positive – so far as actual running barefoot is concerned; some are negative so far as injury rates while running barefoot areRead More
The latest, today, because who knows what it will be tomorrow, is coconut water. Yes, this natural product from the islands and tropics is capable of damn near anything you athletes would want, from hydration to energy to curing all kinds of aches and pains. This article, and many others I’ve researched, shows, it doesRead More
It’s intentional: HAES = Health at Every Size, a program to help overweight women come to grips with the lifestyle patterns that have contributed to their heaviness, but NOT by enforcing weight loss. Rather, it encourages finding – no, creating -new patterns of thinking, feeling, responding, and acting to stimuli – both external as wellRead More
This op-ed in the Times – http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/when-big-food-makes-its-… – highlights perhaps one of the strangest elements of american politics that has long gone unencumbered by both parties: the revolving door and closed feedback loop of those who should be regulated by those who were once or will someday soon be working for the very industries thatRead More
I’m in Los Angeles visiting colleges, brother, and friends, with my youngest daughter. We looked at 3.25 colleges – hard to count USC as a full look as she summarily discounted its prospects upon departing the parking garage. Otherwise, the three small colleges got a good look-see and the pleasant sunny weather here is clearlyRead More
In this piece in the Times, the issue of whether or not to stretch, and if so, how, is addressed, yet again: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/to-stretch-or-not-to-stretch/?r… The quick and dirty is that studies have demonstrated that power and strength are lost after extended durations of static stretching; that newer studies have shown that stretches under 30 seconds doRead More
There’s a standard exercise prescription in the cardio world, coming from the running community, that you should only increase your weekly mileage by 10%. this is stated so as to minimize risk of injury. It translates like so: If you start running, or even walking, one mile a day, seven days/wk, a 10% increase couldRead More
I just returned from an Exercise Etc fitness conference in phoenix this past Sunday (6/12). As a presenter for ex etc for over 15 yrs, I’ve had the opportunity to observe and even participate in the evolution of the profession of personal fitness training. During the lecture on shoulders, I asked if anyone in theRead More
Another study reported in the media – Eating Fat, Staying Lean — shows there may be benefits to eating hi fat/hi protein diets compared to the hi carb diets that have been promoted for the past 35 yrs. Studies, mostly short time, bear this out: reduced wt, reduced fat, even better blood fat and bloodRead More
A norwegian study reports that a single measure of fitness – your aerobic capacity, as measured by ml/kg/min of O2 your body can use during hi intensity exercise (max VO2) – can provide you and your doc a measure of heart risk. They tested 5000 norwegians of all adult ages and determined that, if yourRead More
