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REAL-News --November-2020Nov 01

November 1, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – November 2020

   November 2020 Is There a Gender Difference in How Runners Use Glycogen Intuitively, it would be difficult to posit that male and female runners use glycogen differently at similar intensities in different environments and in similar muscles. Glycogen is stored sugar in the muscle (and liver) that is readily available for energy production. AndRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: gluteals, glycogen, jog, muscle physiology, running, sprint

REAL-News - October-2020Oct 01

October 1, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – October 2020

   October 2020 Progression & Running Injuries: Volume vs Intensity Running injuries are a bane to both the athletes and the healthcare system. Not only do the interfere with the joys and thrills of running recreationally and competitively, they contribute to emotional downers and economic consequences. One issue that has been questioned is, do increasesRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: Achillles strain, golf, running, running injuries, sleep

REAL-News --July-2019Jul 01

July 1, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – July 2019

 July 2019 Running Faster Doesn’t Increase Joint Load, Possibly Most people, athletes included, think that running faster means running harder. That is, that the cumulative loads are increased by hitting the ground with more force per stride. Yet some studies have suggested that fast running, as in interval sprints, actually reduces the impact loads onRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: exercise intensity, health, resistance training, running, strength training, weight managment, yo-yo dieting

REAL-News --March-20202Mar 15

March 15, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

Barefoot Running, Minimalist Shoes – Revisited

I have written many times such as here, here, here, here and here on this topic inspired by different articles and studies, so why not revisit the topic one more time, maybe one last time. So this article from 2010 raises hope that maybe we can summarize the information and move on to the nextRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: barefoot running, biomechanics of running, field of health or exercise science, minimalist shoes, running

Free Holiday Season Advice, for what it's worth1Sep 02

September 2, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

Running and Knee Arthritis

For starters, let’s separate the two main arthritises we often conflate. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an auto-immune disease whereby the body mistakenly attacks itself as if the target tissue is an outside threat. In the case of RA, the cartilage which protects the ends of bones that make up a joint get damaged during anRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: barefoot running, Exercise, musculoskeletal improvements, physical activity, running

Free Holiday Season Advice, for what it's worth1Jul 12

July 12, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

Gadgets of Fitness, Unchained

The advent of microtechnologies has opened up avenues of function, commerce and study that make the old cordless phone an anachronism from the previous century. Whereas making a phone call once tethered you to the wall, today you can hike the Rockies and tell mom in England you’re feet don’t even hurt. In real time!Read More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: achieve well-being, Exercise, exercise intensity, fitness, fitness technology, running, tracking devices

Apr 20, 2016

April 20, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

A Little Dark Chocolate Helps You Go a Looong Way

Are you an endurance athlete looking for an edge? Would you like a way to get more oxygen to the working muscles, and the heart, that is legal, safe and tasty? Would you believe that dark chocolate, which has already been shown to be beneficial to health if eaten in modest amounts, can enhance oxygenRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: cardiovascular, dark chocolate, Exercise, fitness, physically active, running

REAL-News --October-20201Dec 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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