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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

Apr 07, 2020

April 7, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

Covid-19 Workouts by Dr Irv: #2

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

Dec 12, 2018

December 12, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

Free Holiday Season Advice, for what it’s worth

​Here come those nasty holidays advice columns, again. Halloween ends, and the decorations for Thanksgiving come out in stores and homes. Everyone knows that that portends – Christmas decorations, gift shopping and those ubiquitous and invasive, and exhausting, parties are right around the corner.  Every newspaper, magazine and TV news or talk show will beRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: diet, Exercise, fitness, functional fitness, holiday fitness, training

REAL News - December 2018Dec 01

December 1, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – December 2018

 December 2018 Training the Respiratory-side of Cardiorespiratory Health Not a day goes by without some mention on the news, or at your doctor’s office, of your cardiovascular health. Blood pressure, cholesterol, disease-risk, etc. But, unless you’ve had problems with the lungs, few of us consider the respiratory side of the formula. In exercise science, weRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: bone density, bone mineral density, cardiorespiratory fitness, Exercise, fitness, musculoskeletal improvements, physical activity

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

FIT-Happens - -Winter- 20251Feb 12

February 12, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

Does Looking at Thin Make You Feel Fat?

The Super Bowl is over – Fly EAGLES Fly! – but the effects of all those unhealthy snacks and drinks may last for a few more days or weeks. So it is with us Americans  – we tend to live between holidays in a state of regret and shame. To make matters worse, we positionRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: diet, dieting, eating disorders, fitness, health, obesity

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