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Fit-Happens - -Spring -2025Mar 18

March 18, 2025 By Irv Rubenstein

Fit Happens – Spring 2025

Spring 2025 Exercise Certainty in Uncertain Times To understand a scientific article, you need to appreciate the distinction between correlation and causation. Correlation means that two events tend to occur together. As a co-relationship, something could explain part of the answer – larger muscles are stronger muscles – but not explain all of it. StrongerRead More

Filed Under: Fit Happens Tagged With: exercise science, longevity, nuts, statistics, strength training

FIT-Happens - -Winter -2025Jan 17

January 17, 2025 By Irv Rubenstein

FIT Happens – Winter 2025

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

Filed Under: Fit Happens Tagged With: aerrobic fitness, cardio fitness, longevity, neuromuscular inhibition, obesity paradox, skinny fat, sleep

Fit-Happens --Winter-2024Feb 08

February 8, 2024 By Irv Rubenstein

Fit Happens – Winter 2024

Winter 2024 The Changing Winds of Weight Management 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. This is a topic we have discussed previously here, here, and here but it’s not theRead More

Filed Under: Fit Happens Tagged With: childhood obesity, GLP-1, obesity, Ozempic, semaglutide, set point theory, weight management

Fit-Happens--Winter-2023Jan 15

January 15, 2023 By Irv Rubenstein

Fit Happens – Winter 2023

Winter 2023 “I feel fluffy”: Conflating a body composition analysis with an emotion Most of us old enough remember Julie Andrews’ version of “I feel pretty”, by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. But it was originally written for Maria to sing in the original 1957 theatrical version of West Side Story. Ever since then, however,Read More

Filed Under: Fit Happens Tagged With: dieting, diets, fat, healthy habits, motivation, obesity

Fit-Happens--Winter-20233Mar 19

March 19, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

Fit Happens – Spring 2020

Spring 2020 The Year of the Coronavirus It is hard to understate the impact of a pandemic on the personal, professional, economic and political lives of a society, especially one that includes everyone across the globe. The sudden spread and fearful consequences of a what’s called ‘novel’ coronavirus – Covid-19 – has sequestered students atRead More

Filed Under: Fit Happens Tagged With: coronavirus, Covid-19, diet, Exercise, field of health or exercise science, physical activity

Fit-Happens --Winter-20191Dec 10

December 10, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

Fit Happens – Winter 2019

Winter – or 30th Anniversary – 2019 Pillar 1: The Winter of Our Discontent In the summer of 1986, my colleague, Kathy Alexander, and I wondered what we would do once we finished our dissertations in exercise science at Vandy. At the time, there were very few options in that field: academia, hospital-based wellness andRead More

Filed Under: Fit Happens Tagged With: achieve well-being, aging, body fat, bone density, cardio, Exercise, field of health or exercise science, functional fitness, mental health, physical activity, strength training, weight management

Fit Happens - Spring 2019Feb 28

February 28, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

Fit Happens – Spring 2019

Spring 2019 Another Fitness Myth, Busted! What’s it going to take before people stop believing that exercise is medicine; that exercise is beneficial to not just physical health but even brain health; not just brain health as in cognitive function but in emotional well-being? How much more data is required before even those who abhorRead More

Filed Under: Fit Happens Tagged With: bone density, bone mineral density, exercise intensity, muscle mass, musculoskeletal improvements, senior fitness, Senior Training, slows cognitive decline

Fit-Happens--Spring-2025Oct 15

October 15, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

Fit Happens – Fall 2018

                                                                                           Fall 2018 October 16, 1968. The Mexico City Summer Olympics,Read More

Filed Under: Fit Happens Tagged With: aging, Exercise, exercise intensity, musculoskeletal improvements, resistance training, strength training

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