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REAL-News --December-2020Dec 01

December 1, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – December 2020

  December 2020 What Makes Old Folks So Tight: Muscle-Tendon or Nerves We all lose flexibility as we age and we all need it every bit as much as we age. We have addressed some of these issues here, here, here and here. There are basically 4 sources of restrictions on range of motion (ROM):Read More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: aging, dynamic balance, flexibility, gait, reduce your risk of falling, Senior Training, Stretching

REAL-News --January-2021Jul 01

July 1, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – July 2020

   July 2020 Personal Training & Gym Convenience = Better Fitness Workplace fitness centers offer otherwise-sedentary employees an on-site option by which to develop and maintain exercise-based fitness. Encouraging staff to take advantage of the facilities and services, however, is the first challenge. One idea that should be considered is more personalized supervision to provideRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: Exercise, exercise intensity, field of health or exercise science, musculoskeletal improvements, resistance training, Senior Training, strength training

REAL-News --April-2020Apr 01

April 1, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – April 2020

   April 2020 Non-Functional Overreaching vs Overtraining Syndrome Athletes who train and compete hard and long can work themselves to ‘death’, to where they actually stop improving and may start backsliding. Non-functional overreaching (NFO) is considered a short-term reduction in work capacity (reduced strength, power, speed, endurance) lasting a few weeks or months. Overtraining syndromeRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: bone density, functional fitness, musculoskeletal improvements, overreaching, overtraining, protein, Senior Training

Balanced-Training:-For-Young-and-for-OldJul 15

July 15, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

Balanced Training: For Young and for Old

A recent article in the American Council of Exercise (ACE) on-line newsletter provides a nice synopsis of the value and merits, and techniques, of balance training as a component of overall fitness. I want to address this very current and super-crucial elements of training as I do it here at STEPS Fitness. And sometimes youRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: aging, balance, balance training, dynamic balance, functional fitness, Senior Training, static balance

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

REAL News - February 2019Jan 31

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

Fit-Happens --Winter-20192Jan 03

January 3, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – January 2019

 January 2019 Within-Session Muscle Confusion Helps Older Adults  Muscle confusion – the concept of doing pretty high intensity exercises in rapid sequence varying body parts and muscle groups – is a 21st century marketing pitch. Periodization – the idea that a training program should be divided into various elements on daily, weekly or monthly basisRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: dieting, functional fitness, intermittent dieting, intermittent fasting, periodization, resistance training, Senior Training

Pain:-The-Fitness-Dilemma-Discussed-in-Hush-Tones3Dec 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

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