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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

REAL-News --August-20222Feb 01

February 1, 2022 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – February 2022

February 2022 Body Recomposition for the Older Female “Body recomposition” – a new term in the fitness science world – refers to the positive changes you get from an exercise program such as increased lean muscle mass (LBM) and decreased body fat (BF), both of which are favorable to health, not just appearance.  This isRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: aging, breast cancer, covid, exercise is medicine, immunity, muscle mass, protein

REAL-News --February-20252Dec 01

December 1, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – December 2020

  December 2020 What Makes Old Folks So Tight: Muscle-Tendon or Nerves We all lose flexibility as we age and we all need it every bit as much as we age. We have addressed some of these issues here, here, here and here. There are basically 4 sources of restrictions on range of motion (ROM):Read More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: aging, dynamic balance, flexibility, gait, reduce your risk of falling, Senior Training, Stretching

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

REAL-News --June-20222Dec 01

December 1, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – December 2019

 December 2019 Please help us celebrate 30 years helping Nashville’s finest stay healthy and fit. December 14 from 6-8 p.m. at STEPS  Cardio Intensity, Brain Blood Flow and Age (in men) Among the many other insults of age, include reduced blood flow to the brain. This was linked to decreased cognitive function and, in extremeRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: aging, jntervals, knee joint, processed foods, running injuries, running mileage

REAL-News--December-20241Jul 15

July 15, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

Balanced Training: For Young and for Old

A recent article in the American Council of Exercise (ACE) on-line newsletter provides a nice synopsis of the value and merits, and techniques, of balance training as a component of overall fitness. I want to address this very current and super-crucial elements of training as I do it here at STEPS Fitness. And sometimes youRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: aging, balance, balance training, dynamic balance, functional fitness, Senior Training, static balance

REAL News - August 20191Apr 01

April 1, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – April 2019

 April 2019 How Much Do You Have to Lift to Get Strong…or Big? A study that evaluated the required volume of weight lifting exercises necessary to effect muscle strength and size (hypertrophy) made all the news at the end of 2018. In what might be considered a large study of this type, 45 healthy, youngRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: aging, bone density, hydration, mediterranean diet, running technique, strength training, urinary tract infections

REAL-News--November-20241Dec 25

December 25, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

What is ‘Old’ and How Can One Procrastinate Aging?

The answer to the title question, “What is ‘Old’ and How Can One Procrastinate Aging”, is a timeless one. It’s as old as cognition itself. For the next step after old is dead and mankind has been trying to make sense of that once he and she realized he and she existed beyond the bodilyRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: achieve well-being, aging, cardio, Christmas, dieting, Exercise, physical activity

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