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July 2023 Three (More) Cheers for Resistance Training A large meta-analysis of studies on resistance training (RT) exercise in adults found 16 that met the criteria. The overall conclusion was that RT conferred a “10–17% lower risk of all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease (CVD), total cancer, diabetes, and lung cancer,” otherwise labeled non-communicable diseases (NCDs). ThereRead More
June 2023 How Exercise Might Delay or Prevent Cognitive Decline Raise your hand if the thought of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) scares you as much as it does me. A Journal of Physiology (Jan. 2023) article reports that short bouts of intense exercise – what is popularly known as interval training (high energy outputs followed byRead More
May 2023 Move Over, Cardio; Resistance Training Saves Lives For more than 60 years now, the world has come to recognize that being aerobically fit reduces your risk of many non-communicable diseases (NCD) like heart disease, diabetes, and even some cancers. The mechanisms have been studied down to the nearest DNA and RNA strands. WeRead More
April 2023 Walk – and Run – Smarter, Not Harder for Knee Health Several years ago, research started demonstrating that gait changes might reduce knee loads, especially for runners. Some of this was prompted by studies on barefoot or minimalist-shoe running. We’ve discussed these issues here, here, here, and here. Those studies demonstrated that kneeRead More
March 2023 Get a Grip on Better MENTAL Health In January, REAL News reported on a study in MSSE (Nov. 2022) that demonstrated substantial correlations between handgrip strength (HGS) and overall health and function in older adults. Now, a December 2022 article in the British Journal of Psychiatry adds to the value of HGS forRead More
February 2023 Don’t Sit While Reading This! The science of sedentariness marches on. For the past 20 years, it’s become more evident that sitting, except on an exercise machine, is dangerous to your heart and health. In light of this information, a broader health concern is how physical activity (PA) impacts the older population. TheRead More
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
January 2023 How to Get a Grip on Better Health For decades, handgrip strength (HGS), measured on a dynamometer, not a handshake, has been used as a proxy for overall strength. It is considered a “strong predictor of general health status, overall morbidities, all-cause mortality, and exceptional[longevity.]” Since we lose muscle mass and strength asRead More
December 2022 Knee OA Does NOT Excuse You From Squats & Lunges For those who suffer with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee(s), the often painful and sometimes threatening idea of a squat or lunge might stand in the way of both therapy and fitness training. We have covered this topic with respect to causes, effects,Read More
November 2022 What Causes Muscle Cramps in Marathoners? The runner’s bane is muscle cramps, those painful, activity-stopping pains in side of the ribcage that come from nowhere. Even 70 years after the jogging craze hit, we’re still not sure why these happen. Years ago, one study tested the idea that it was fluid in theRead More
