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REAL-News--March-2025Mar 01

March 1, 2025 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – March 2025

March 2025 Walking Economy & Preferred Gait Speed in the Aged Studies of gait have determined that even older runners use less of their plantar flexors – calf muscles – as they age compared to younger runners. To substitute, they use more of their hip flexors to swing their leg forward and their hip extensors/glutealsRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: ankle abduction, fall prevention, gait, gait speed, plantar fasciitis, prehab, pronation, sport bras

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

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July 12, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News July 2017

  July 2017 Old Feet and ACL Repairs Affect Balance Similarly What do the feet of older folks and those of athletes with torn anterior cruciate (ACL) have in common? The answer may solve health and sports science matters more than you’d imagine. Much of sports science deals with the musculoskeletal system but new infoRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: ACL injuries, ankle injuries, balance, creatine, functional fitness, gait

REAL-News--February-2025Jun 14

June 14, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

Fit Happens Summer 2017

Summer 2017 Training Tenets Take Back Seat to Neurological Aging Every so often, a brilliant concept crops up in the exercise field that makes such intuitive sense we trainers just want to slap ourselves with glee. Thus, over the past 20 years or so, balance and agility training for the aging population has offered theRead More

Filed Under: Fit Happens Tagged With: aging, field of health or exercise science, functional fitness, gait, gait training, physical activity, Rock Steady Boxing

REAL-News --February-20252Dec 19

December 19, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

Alzheimer’s Disease and Falling: A Neuro-Cognitive Disaster

A study from the University of Wisconsin asked why it is that those with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) tend to have more and more catastrophic falls than other older people with no cognitive impairment. Suffering three times the rate of falls as age- and gender-adjusted peers, those with AD, which affects mental and memory function, areRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: Alzheimer's disease, balance drills, cognitive function, gait

Mar 22, 2012

March 22, 2012 By Irv Rubenstein

On Barefeet vs Shoes

the pseudo claims of running efficiency and injury prevention as regards barefoot running are based on some faulty anthropological observations, as i’ve said before. the essence of these claims is that mankind has been walking/running barefoot for millenia if not longer until hard-sole shoes came about this last millenia. prior to that, most foot wearRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: barefoot running, gait, zero-drop shoes

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