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September 2024 Speedy Squats Suppress Senior’s Sarcopenia As we’ve reported with increasing frequency, likely as a consequence of the aging of my/the Boomer generation, the loss of muscle mass portends serious declines in function and longevity. This loss is called sarcopenia and only one intervention slows it down: resistance training (RT). (Heavy doses of proteinRead More
June 2024 Fatness ——> Decreased Brain Fitness A long-running argument exists in the health and fitness arena: can you be fat and be fit? Rather, can you have a body composition (BC) with excess fat and have good cardiovascular health if you exercise and eat well? Now they’ve ramped up the question to include theRead More
April 2024 Rotator Cuff: Where the Sun Doesn’t Shine The risk of shoulder rotator cuff (RC) pain and injury mounts with age and abuse, or non-use, smoking and, maybe just maybe hypovitaminosis D – that is, chronic low levels of vitamin D. We have covered rotator cuff injury and rehab in these posts – here,Read More
I love reading about shoulders and working with them mainly because they’re so complex. It’s not that I really understand it all, but having attended many lectures and a few specific conferences on shoulders, I retain a fascination that probably exceeds that of most personal trainers. My ‘mentor’ on shoulders is Dr Ben Kibler ofRead More
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
