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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

REAL News - November 2018Nov 01

November 1, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – November 2018

  November 2018 When Hip Structure Compromises Hip Motion A more recent diagnostic of hip deformity, along with a more recent surgical procedure to manage it (thanks to the work of a Nashville orthopedist), has helped explain a lot of athletes’, and even non-athletes’, groin pain. Called femoroacetabular impingement (FAI), it is essentially a recognitionRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: Exercise, flexibility, functional fitness, musculoskeletal improvements, obesity, Stretching

REAL-News --May-2024Sep 30

September 30, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – October 2018

  October 2018 When Hip Structure Compromises Hip Motion A more recent diagnostic of hip deformity, along with a more recent surgical procedure to manage it (thanks to the work of a Nashville orthopedist), has helped explain a lot of athletes’, and even non-athletes’, groin pain. Called femoroacetabular impingement (FAI), it is essentially a recognitionRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: aging, body fat, childhood obesity, flexibility, Senior Training, Stretching

REAL-News --May-2024Jun 05

June 5, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

Of Mice and Men: Exercise boosts neurogenerative systems

Aging happens over time, and with it comes many changes to the mind and body. I know it sounds tautological and mundanely simplistic, but science is still investigating what and why things deteriorate as we age. While most of age-related research is on diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, etc, the one that mayRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: achieve well-being, Exercise, flexibility, resistance training, Senior Training, strength training

REAL-News --November-20202Feb 27

February 27, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

The Science of Overstretching: Where Yoga Outdoes Running

Several years ago, when Eddie George was the Tennessee Titans heralded running back – for all good reasons, I might add – he took up yoga from a friend of mine. This instructor capitalized on Eddie’s work with her, and Eddie presumably capitalized on the benefits of stretching… a lot. Now, I can’t say whetherRead More

Filed Under: General News Tagged With: fitness, flexibility, flexibility training, Stretching

Nov 25, 2012

November 25, 2012 By Irv Rubenstein

branding my brand

Inspired today by an article in the sunday NY Times about psychotherapists branding themselves with websites. This is done by changing the wording, and some of the offerings, about what they do. That is, instead of doing just therapy, consider doing life coaching, which can be done by phone or on line. To find aRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: aerobic capacity, cardiovascular function, flexibility, functional training, resistance training

Real News September 2016Jun 23

June 23, 2011 By Irv Rubenstein

On Stretching, Time, and Reward

In this piece in the Times, the issue of whether or not to stretch, and if so, how, is addressed, yet again: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/to-stretch-or-not-to-stretch/?r… The quick and dirty is that studies have demonstrated that power and strength are lost after extended durations of static stretching; that newer studies have shown that stretches under 30 seconds doRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: benefits of stretching, dynamic stretching, flexibility, running

Barefoot Running, Minimalist Shoes - Revisited1Jun 16

June 16, 2010 By Irv Rubenstein

Strength Train Yourself Flexible

Studies have been showing over the past decade or so that resistance training (RT) improves flexibility. Furthermore, it reduces your risk of lengthening injuries – like a hamstring tear during running, or back strain from bending – by not only increasing the ability of the muscle to pull more load but also resisting a loadRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: Exercise, flexibility, strength, training

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