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REAL-News -- July-2024Jul 01

July 1, 2024 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – July 2024

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

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: achieve well-being, aging, body fat, cardiovascular, diabetes, low back pain, menstruation, obesity, resistance training

Part 1: GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: The New, Improved, and Not-Fully-Understood Weight Loss DrugsFeb 01

February 1, 2023 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – February 2023

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

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: achieve well-being, ankle sprains, Exercise, exercise intensity, frailty, Heart Health, physical activity, resistance training, Senior Training

REAL-News --August-2021Aug 01

August 1, 2021 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – August 2021

August 2021 Physical Activity & Sleep vs Sitting Too Much We all have the same 24 hours in a day, and how you spend many of those waking hours impacts your health and wellbeing. The now-entrenched sedentary sciences obviously promote substituting sedentary time with voluntary physical activity. Many studies show that moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA)Read More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: achieve well-being, cycling, exercise intensity, muscle power, physical activity, power, science of sedentariness

REAL-News--March-20221Dec 22

December 22, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

Exercise and Depression: A 2-Way Street

When I started graduate school at Peabody College, which was not yet a part of Vanderbilt University, to study exercise science – which was technically not a major field of study but was the area of health and physical education in which I was interested – I had to take some ‘soft’ courses. That is,Read More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: achieve well-being, depression, exercise addiction, exercise and mood, field of health or exercise science

REAL-News --June-2020Jun 01

June 1, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – June 2020

   June 2020 Is There An Exercise Routine Older Adults Can and Will Do? As we age, we lose muscle and bone mass. We don’t manage glucose levels as well. These predispose the elderly to reduced function and higher risk of falls and fractures which could seriously impair both quality and quantity of life. EncouragingRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: achieve well-being, calories, Exercise, exercise intensity, physical activity, sedentariness, sitting

How-Hard-Do-You-REALLY-Have-to-Work?Apr 10

April 10, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

Coronavirus Tips: How to Live Through Covid

If I were an expert on anything, it would be somewhere in the category of fitness but not in medicine. What is fitness, anyway? This question has been asked by health, exercise, wellness, medical and fitness experts for over 50 years, pretty much since Dr Ken Cooper researched and wrote on, and developed the veryRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: achieve well-being, coronavirus, covid, diet, Exercise, fitness, physical activity

Apr 10, 2020

April 10, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

Covid-19 Workouts by Dr Irv: #5

Do you realize how quickly you lose fitness and overall conditioning when you can’t maintain your exercise regimen? This study will scare you into doing something. So let me help. Each day I will post 4-5 exercises that you can use to stay in shape as this shelter-in-place seems to be dragging on. Below areRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: achieve well-being, at-home workouts, coronavirus, covid, Exercise, fitness, musculoskeletal improvements, physical activity

Apr 09, 2020

April 9, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

Covid-19 Workouts by Dr Irv: #4

Do you realize how quickly you lose fitness and overall conditioning when you can’t maintain your exercise regimen? This study will scare you into doing something. So let me help. Each day I will post 4-5 exercises that you can use to stay in shape as this shelter-in-place seems to be dragging on. Below areRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: achieve well-being, at-home workout, coronavirus, covid, Exercise, fitness, resistance training

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