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REAL-News --March-2020Mar 01

March 1, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – March 2020

   March 2020 Multi-Dimensional Balance Training Beats Strength Alone Preventing falls among older adults is a health-care crisis of economic, quality of life (QoL) and morbidity dimensions. With nearly 60% of those over 65 reporting limited mobility and the high rates of falling in this group, exercise researchers are attempting to discern what type ofRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: achieve well-being, body fat, depression, functional fitness, gait re-training, lean body mass, lose weight, musculoskeletal improvements, strength training

Jun 13, 2019

June 13, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

Wrist a Little, But Not Too Long

An internet colleague – someone I met on line via LinkedIn who is a fantastic blogger and an occupational therapist – sent me this blog she’d written on wrist pain. It is well worth sharing here. I don’t have as much knowledge about this critical joint as I should but this article fills in soRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: carpal tunnel, musculoskeletal improvements, resistance training, wrist pain

REAL-News--February-20251Mar 10

March 10, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

Core Exercise, Part 2: Training the Abs to Do Their Job

In a previous blog,  Core Exercise, Part 1: Fad, Fashion or Fundamental?, I proposed that core exercise is not just about training the abs since the core is a more integrated, comprehensive functional unit that simply includes the abs as one element. In Part 2, I want to stress how the abs actually function – notRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: core, core activation, core endurance, core exercise, core power, exercise intensity, functional fitness, musculoskeletal improvements, resistance training

Fit Happens - Spring 2019Feb 28

February 28, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

Fit Happens – Spring 2019

Spring 2019 Another Fitness Myth, Busted! What’s it going to take before people stop believing that exercise is medicine; that exercise is beneficial to not just physical health but even brain health; not just brain health as in cognitive function but in emotional well-being? How much more data is required before even those who abhorRead More

Filed Under: Fit Happens Tagged With: bone density, bone mineral density, exercise intensity, muscle mass, musculoskeletal improvements, senior fitness, Senior Training, slows cognitive decline

Stem Cell Therapy: Road blocks and HighwaysFeb 10

February 10, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

Stem Cell Therapy: Road blocks and Highways

Biologics are the up and coming therapies across many fields of medicine. For lack of better, more technical, definitions, let’s use the simple version of using our own bodies, or other parts of other bodies, to heal our own bodies. Since my main area of interest, and the reason you’re even reading this, is theRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: field of health or exercise science, musculoskeletal improvements, osteoarthritis, PRP, rotator cuff, stem cell therapy, stem cells

Jan 31, 2019

January 31, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – February 2019

 February 2019 Just a Spoonful of Protein Helps the Knee Replacement Patient A University of Oregon study asked the question whether the supplementation of essential amino acids (EAA), the building blocks of protein, would safely help older total knee replacement (TKR) patients maintain leg muscle mass. The typical response to TKR is further atrophy ofRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: achieve well-being, high protein, musculoskeletal improvements, protein supplements, resistance training, Senior Training

REAL-News -- May-20252Dec 07

December 7, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

Can Protein Supplementation Facilitate Joint Replacement Success?

In many blog posts and newsletters, I have tried to come to grips with the value and merits of increased protein ingestion. Studies have demonstrated that extra protein helps not just athletes and ‘bodybuilders’ but the elderly, too. In this article, we see that there was probably a benefit for those about to undergo andRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: Exercise, musculoskeletal improvements, protein, protein supplement, Senior Training, strength training

REAL News - December 2018Dec 01

December 1, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – December 2018

 December 2018 Training the Respiratory-side of Cardiorespiratory Health Not a day goes by without some mention on the news, or at your doctor’s office, of your cardiovascular health. Blood pressure, cholesterol, disease-risk, etc. But, unless you’ve had problems with the lungs, few of us consider the respiratory side of the formula. In exercise science, weRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: bone density, bone mineral density, cardiorespiratory fitness, Exercise, fitness, musculoskeletal improvements, physical activity

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

Fit-Happens--Spring-2025Oct 15

October 15, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

Fit Happens – Fall 2018

                                                                                           Fall 2018 October 16, 1968. The Mexico City Summer Olympics,Read More

Filed Under: Fit Happens Tagged With: aging, Exercise, exercise intensity, musculoskeletal improvements, resistance training, strength training

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