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Winter 2025 Cardio Fitness for Body and Brain What’s a new year’s Winter Fit Happens without news about what’s happening in fitness news? And so it is that a timely article in the Washington Post (Jan. 8) intersects with some snow-weather reading I’ve been up to. A study from the British Journal of Sports MedicineRead More
January 2025 Composite Score of 3 Heart Disease Biomarkers Excels High-sensitivity C-reactive protein (CRP), low-density lipoprotein (LDL, the bad cholesterol), and lipoprotein (a) levels (LPa) are valuable, and treatable, predictors of 5- and 10-year risk for cardiovascular events. However, the ability to predict risk over longer periods of time could yield earlier treatments and reducedRead More
December 2024 Reverse Walking Reverses Disease Correlates Heart disease has many correlates such as excess weight as gauged by a high BMI, blood pressure (BP), and C-reactive protein (CRP, a marker of systemic inflammation). Diet and exercise are two things you can do to reduce your risk of disease and early death. Walking is theRead More
November 2024 Where Goes Muscle Mass With Cardio Exercise? Did you ever notice that cardio athletes tend to be lean but not mean? It’s been an accepted scientific conclusion that our bodies respond to the stimuli they are provided such that aerobic exercise builds the heart muscle but not the muscles that do the exercise.Read More
October 2024 To Speed or Not to Speed – Lift, That is? Read any layperson’s magazine or news article about resistance training (RT) and you’ll be cautioned frequently about doing the lifts slowly, with good form and proper breathing patterns. In other words, don’t fling the weights and don’t hold your breath. All is goodRead More
September 2024 Speedy Squats Suppress Senior’s Sarcopenia As we’ve reported with increasing frequency, likely as a consequence of the aging of my/the Boomer generation, the loss of muscle mass portends serious declines in function and longevity. This loss is called sarcopenia and only one intervention slows it down: resistance training (RT). (Heavy doses of proteinRead More
August 2024 Which Popular Diet Works Best? An old study comparing the effects of the Atkins (A), Ornish (O), Weight Watchers (WW), and Zone (Z) diets didn’t settle the question but does make sense of the ultimate truth of any diet: any diet that reduces caloric intake long enough will help you lose weight andRead More
July 2024 What We Mean When We Say “Activate” Muscles A readily-bandied about if not overused phrase in the fitness arena is “activate your _____ muscles”. Intuitively, we understand its meaning but a recent study out of the UK will give it more currency. They studied what they call ‘force steadiness’ in subjects with andRead More
