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REAL-News --September-2022Aug 31

August 31, 2022 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – September 2022

September 2022 Strength Training: To Failure or Not to Failure? A group of Brazilian researchers aimed to answer one of the burning questions in exercise science: for older adults using low-load resistance training (LLRT), do you have to achieve muscle failure or can you stop before failure? Muscle failure is potentially painful and even injuriousRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: exercise to failure, lean muscle mass, low back pain, post-menopausal fitness, potato protein, volitional fatigue

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August 1, 2022 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – August 2022

August 2022 Single-Leg Squat: A Tried & True Exercise for Life  It’s rare that we promote any one exercise for any and all people, but some things just make sense. Other than sitting or standing still, invariably we live on one leg at a time. Therefore it makes sense to perform some lower body exercisesRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: coronary artery calcium, detraining, low back pain, PRP, single-leg squats, squats, training

REAL-News --May-2020May 01

May 1, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – May 2020

   May 2020 Low Back Rehab: How Hard Should It Go? Intensity of exercise is a potent factor in the rate and extent of progress one makes in general fitness and in some injury recoveries. But this has not been thoroughly tested in chronic non-specific low back pain (CNSLBP.) THis is a topic we’ve coveredRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: exertion, HIIT, low back pain, obesity, overweight, pain, soft drinks, walking efficiency

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June 1, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News June 2018

 June 2018 All You Ever Wanted to Know About Planks but Were Afraid to Ask A brief history of spine pain and therapy takes us through the 1950s when the abdominal curl/crunch was highly recommended by Drs. Kraus and Williams to help those with mechanical low back pain. Then in the 1970s, McKenzie came upRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: functional fitness, low back pain, muscle recovery, osteoarthritis, resistance training

REAL-News --November-2020Jan 02

January 2, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News January 2018

        January 2018 Low-Carb for Athletes: A Fallacy of Anecdotism? Since the early 1970s, virtually all sports nutrition research has focused on the value and merits of carbohydrate consumption to enhance athletic performance, especially for long distance events. Recently a new concept of training while low on carbs has received some testimonialRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: back therapy, low back pain, low carb running, train-low

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November 17, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

Walking Off the Plank or Getting to the Core of the Matter

The ubiquity of planks in gyms and exercise videos has denigrated it to the level of a ‘fad’. Once the newcomer to fitness – about 15 years ago – it is now so common as both an exercise of choice for almost all kinds of athletes and people and as a standard of achievement forRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: core exercise, lateral plank, low back pain, planks, spinal stabilizing, stability ball crunch, stability ball plank

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