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May 2024 Hypertrophy and Strength Gains After 75 A study out of Chile aimed to find out if old-old (>85) get similar strength and muscle growth as young-old – that is, 65-75 – from a similar resistance training (RT) program. Knowing that muscle size diminishes with age – called sarcopenia – and that size isRead More
October 2023 The Weakening of Menopause: Another Insult Sarcopenia is the loss of lean muscle mass (LMM) that takes place as we age even if you do muscle-building exercises. Women are more apt to suffer the long-term effects of sarcopenia after menopause: reduced metabolism, greater risk of LMM-associated disability such as bone loss, fractures, moreRead More
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
For a few years, while she was establishing herself as a neuromuscular expert on feet, Dr. Emily Splichal, a NYC podiatrist, was a source of highly technical yet superbly functional webinars (this is but one link on youtube) on the foot. I would strongly recommend them to anyone who works with athletes prone to footRead More
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
Winter – or 30th Anniversary – 2019 Pillar 1: The Winter of Our Discontent In the summer of 1986, my colleague, Kathy Alexander, and I wondered what we would do once we finished our dissertations in exercise science at Vandy. At the time, there were very few options in that field: academia, hospital-based wellness andRead More
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
April 2019 How Much Do You Have to Lift to Get Strong…or Big? A study that evaluated the required volume of weight lifting exercises necessary to effect muscle strength and size (hypertrophy) made all the news at the end of 2018. In what might be considered a large study of this type, 45 healthy, youngRead More
