Feb 03
fitness
Jan 03
Exercise of the Month: Stand and Press
Aug 10
Point
This issue comes up often in lay magazines and other venues: how do you choose a personal trainer? Actually, this could also be asked as to how you choose a massage therapist, a psycho-therapist, or even a doctor. In other words, any time you seek the any service provider from gardener to house cleaner toRead More
Jun 06
Thoughts on depression, and depressing thoughts
This article, from a study in Great Britain, describes what some might conclude is depressing news: that the addition of an exercise component to a treatment process for depression does not yield any better results than treatment for depression alone: http://www.healthcanal.com/mental-health-behavior/29896-Physical-Activit… utm_campaign=Feed%3A+healthnewshc%2FOxfp+%28Health+News+from+HealthCanal.com%29 Now, in all fairness, this is a well done study with a largeRead More
Nov 01
Athletes are the Most Gullible People ….(originally posted 09/10/11)
Athletes will try anything it seems. follow the link above and learn about the next crazy thing on their ever-lasting pursuit for greatness. Hard work aside, that magic bullet just seems to be at the end of that rainbow, like the pot of gold…. Anyway, cryotherapy at 166 degrees BELOW zero sounds absolutely crazy. Someone’sRead More
Aug 19, 2011
On Barefoot Running
Barefoot running, and barefoot shoes, are the newest things in fitness and in fitness gear. I’ve commented and written before on this topic and more studies keep popping up about it. Most are positive – so far as actual running barefoot is concerned; some are negative so far as injury rates while running barefoot areRead More
Aug 05, 2011
HAES it Going?
It’s intentional: HAES = Health at Every Size, a program to help overweight women come to grips with the lifestyle patterns that have contributed to their heaviness, but NOT by enforcing weight loss. Rather, it encourages finding – no, creating -new patterns of thinking, feeling, responding, and acting to stimuli – both external as wellRead More
May 29
Bikini Bodies – Few and Far Between
I’ve been real busy lately, so I have not taken time to blog. Today my oldest daughter, Lydia, graduated high school after many grueling years of late nights and drama. Off to college next fall – Bates, in Maine – and independence, a phase I hope she finds every bit as enjoyable as the oneRead More
Mar 19
Genetics, Exercise, and You
All me, and women, are NOT created equal other than in their humanity. You heard it here, first. By this I mean, we are equally human but do not have equal traits: smarts, looks, strengths, weaknesses, etc. as such, some of us will be “blessed” as measured by our cultural biases, socioeconomic needs, and otherRead More
Feb 27, 2011
News to You’s Guys
Being from Philly, I had to adapt some of my dialect once I settled in nashville 41 yrs ago. for one thing, I stopped referring to the fuel you put in cars as ‘gaz’ since someone pointed out that it’s spelled ‘gas’. For another, ya’ll is a better way to pluralize you compared to you’sRead More