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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

Jul 01, 2018

July 1, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News July 2018

 July 2018 How Hard Do You Really NEED to Exercise? Many national and international health bodies have determined how much exercise one needs to live a healthy if not longer life. In general, the exercise prescription for health – not athletic fitness or weight loss – is to accumulate 150 minutes of moderate physical activityRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: achieve well-being, aging, cardio, cardiovascular, exercise intensity, fitness

REAL-News --June-20202Jun 27

June 27, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

Standing Desks: Why All the Rage?

In several other posts here, here, and here, I have discussed exercise and health science’s efforts to find the least amount of activity necessary to confer benefits. This goes back to my early years in grad school – 1978 to be exact – and the American College of Sports Medicine’s (ACSM) efforts to home in onRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: achieve well-being, cardiovascular, field of health or exercise science, physical activity, science of sedentariness, sedentariness, Weight loss vs Exercise gain

REAL-News--March-20232Oct 18

October 18, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

King of Hearts: The One Bet That’s Well Worth It

Last summer I went to the American College of Sports Medicine (www.acsm.org) Annual Meeting in Denver where I sat in on a lecture about the dangers of overexercise. The doctor who presented it was from a Midwestern City University where he’d seen many patients come in with cardiac troubles from shoveling snow. His basic thesisRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: achieve well-being, cardiovascular, field of health or exercise science, Heart Health

REAL-News --November-20202Sep 02

September 2, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News September 2017

            September 2017 Specificity: Neuromuscular Adaptions Depend on How You Train There are two main principles to fitness training that determine your outcomes: overload and specificity. Overload refers to making the body do more than it’s accustomed to doing, be it lifting, running, stretching or what not. Specificity refers toRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: achieve well-being, cardiovascular, exercise intensity, Heart Health, musculoskeletal improvements

REAL-News -- April-20241Aug 03

August 3, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

Athletes’ hearts, Lean Obesity and Single-payer Healthcare

You’re probably thinking I was trying to get a bunch of keywords into the title so Google will spot me. You’re probably thinking, how in the hell is he going to link three disparate health and fitness issues into one coalesced blog post? And you’re probably thinking I’ve been drinking. But you must read thisRead More

Filed Under: General News Tagged With: achieve well-being, body fat, burn off excess weight, cardiovascular, exercise intensity, fitness, Heart Health, physical activity

Are All Fats Risky?Jul 04

July 4, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

Are All Fats Risky?

It has been a while since a research article slapped me – and the rest of the fitness community – in the face. However, today via HealthNews Canal, a site that posts p.r. pieces on research being done worldwide, came out with a headline that bursts – or could burst – a lot of fitnessRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: cardiovascular, diets, Heart Health, mediterranean diet, monounsaturated fats, olive oil

Aug 10

August 10, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

An Hour a Day Keeps Early Death Away???

Much has been written in the news, the research world, and in my blogs and newsletters about sedentary living and how it impacts morbidity and mortality. There have been credible studies showing that even if you exercise regularly, if you sit more than 8 hours a day, you virtually negate the benefits of all thatRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: achieve well-being, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal improvements, physically active, Weight loss vs Exercise gain

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