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REAL-News --April-20251Nov 01

November 1, 2024 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – November 2024

November 2024 Where Goes Muscle Mass With Cardio Exercise? Did you ever notice that cardio athletes tend to be lean but not mean? It’s been an accepted scientific conclusion that our bodies respond to the stimuli they are provided such that aerobic exercise builds the heart muscle but not the muscles that do the exercise.Read More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: cardio, d, eccentric exercise, intraocular pressure, Joint Replacement, lean muscle mass

REAL-News --May-2024May 01

May 1, 2024 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – May 2024

May 2024 Hypertrophy and Strength Gains After 75 A study out of Chile aimed to find out if old-old (>85) get similar strength and muscle growth as young-old – that is, 65-75 – from a similar resistance training (RT) program. Knowing that muscle size diminishes with age – called sarcopenia – and that size isRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: arthritis, arthroplasty, diabetes, Joint Replacement, older adults, strength training, visceral fat

REAL News - January 2024Jan 01

January 1, 2024 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – January 2024

January 2024 Free Weights vs Machines: Is There a Difference? Ever since Nautilus gym equipment hit the market in the 1970s, the burning question among fitness specialists and researchers was, Can you get as strong and/or as hypertrophied on machine resistance (MR) devices as you can using free weights (FW) like dumbbells and barbells? WhenRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: ACL, free weights, Joint Replacement, machine weights, prehab, rehab, resistance training

REAL-News --April-20251Aug 01

August 1, 2023 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – August 2023

August 2023 No Fear— Aminos are Here! A significant fraction of individuals in the world of exercise partakes in essential amino acid (EAA) supplementation. These little building blocks of protein promote muscle performance, muscle recovery, and muscular gains. With this in mind, could EAA supplementation aid in recovery from a total knee replacement (TKR)? ARead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: caffeine, cardiorespiratory fitness, coffee, dieting, essential amino acids, intermittent fasting, Joint Replacement, protein supplements

Part 1: GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: The New, Improved, and Not-Fully-Understood Weight Loss DrugsDec 05

December 5, 2014 By Irv Rubenstein

Part 2: Osteoarthritis and Joint Replacement (from Medical Fitness Network)

This is a continuation of a blog posted Nov. 19, 2014 called The Pleasures and Pains of Knee Replacement Surgery and Rehab. It started with my personal story and continues into a discussion on the etiology of the disease, how it is treated, and the surgical option of joint replacement. It also includes the mainRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: arthritis foundation, healthy cartilage, Joint Replacement, osteophytes, ROM

Apr 03, 2014

April 3, 2014 By Irv Rubenstein

What I(rv) Learned This Summer, Parts I, II, III

What I Learned This Summer: On Fats and Fatness; The Joy of Joint Replacement; How To Recover From Surgery. Also, Rest In Peace, Ted Welch.    fithappens.spring.2014

Filed Under: Fit Happens, Newsletters Tagged With: Joint Replacement, obesity, weight loss

REAL-News --March-20251Dec 13

December 13, 2012 By Irv Rubenstein

Can you run too much? can you exercise too much? can you ….. too much?

The world of fitness and exercise is full of mythologies, and this one keeps cropping up: you can run too much for good health. Ken Cooper, M.D., the father of aerobics, from Dallas, TX, said as much several years ago…when he stopped running so much, most likely because of the wear and tear it imposesRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: aging and exercise, Joint Replacement, overreaching, overtraining, overuse, physically active, running

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