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August 2020 HIIT vs MICE: Which is best for the Arteries? High blood pressure (BP) and arterial stiffness often accompany aging. We kind of know that cardio exercise is good for the former but which type of exercise is good for both? A Canadian study investigated the acute effects of high-intensity interval training (HIIT)Read More
It is not unusual for a new personal fitness training client to ask, sincerely and with some trepidation, “How often should I come in to train?” The other side of this question, actually just one of the other sides to it, is, “How much exercise do I have to do to accomplish my stated goal(s)?”Read More
A NYT article last week posited the power of interval training to alter the mitochondrial genes in the elderly – aaargh, those over 64; that is, MY age – versus in younger exercisers. With an attention-grabbing title – The Best Exercise for Aging Muscles- the respected author, Gretchen Reynolds dug deep into salesmanship/saleswomanship/salespersonship to grabRead More
My buddy, Mike Deibler, from San Diego, a Masters in Exercise Science and a speaker with Exercise ETC, has posted this piece about spot reducing: Don’t Burn Fat This Way In Mike’s succinct and quite manner, he hits the nail on the head, spot on: there is no good way to spot reduceRead More
This is the second installment of a 3 Part essay on diabetes and exercise that I did for Medical Fitness Network (http://medicalfitnessnetwork.org/). The first section is descriptive of the mechanisms of the two main types of diabetes, Type 1 and Type 2. This section speaks to the science behind the strong recommendation to initiate anRead More
