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Stretching

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 - 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 --Winter-20192Sep 30

September 30, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – October 2018

  October 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: aging, body fat, childhood obesity, flexibility, Senior Training, Stretching

REAL-News --November-20202Feb 27

February 27, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

The Science of Overstretching: Where Yoga Outdoes Running

Several years ago, when Eddie George was the Tennessee Titans heralded running back – for all good reasons, I might add – he took up yoga from a friend of mine. This instructor capitalized on Eddie’s work with her, and Eddie presumably capitalized on the benefits of stretching… a lot. Now, I can’t say whetherRead More

Filed Under: General News Tagged With: fitness, flexibility, flexibility training, Stretching

REAL News - November 2018Feb 09

February 9, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

The Science and Fad of Stretching

What’s the common theme in these pictures? No, guys, it’s not that they are all women stretching. Jeez. It’s that they are all stretching exercises. And they are variations of ones many exercisers do before or after a run or a class. But if you buy into stretching for reasons other than what it canRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: benefits of stretching, flexibility training, Stretching, stretching exercises

Apr 07, 2013

April 7, 2013 By Irv Rubenstein

to stretch or not to stretch… that damn question keeps coming back up

I’ve addressed this issue before so you’re welcome to go thru the archives and read what I wrote then. Today, I write nothing different.The question at hand was inspired by a recent article in the NY Times by gretchen reynolds: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/03/reasons-not-to-stretch/ In this one, she alludes to two newer studies showing sustained – and thatRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: Exercise, physical activity, Stretching, tae kwon do, training

StretchingSep 01

September 1, 2010 By Irv Rubenstein

Stretching

Another article sums up the latest professional spin on stretching. Done on runners, many many runners, of all ages, some of whom were assigned a 5 mins stretching routine, others who were asked not to – it took two years to find enough who would not stretch – the study found that 16% of stretchersRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: injury, ITB, runners, Stretching

Jun 08, 2010

June 8, 2010 By Irv Rubenstein

ACSM Annual Meeting Thoughts

Last week I attended the ACSM annual meeting in beautiful Baltimore. I kid you not; it is a beautiful convention center/inner harbor/down town area with good restaurants – my cousin took me to an Afghani restaurant (owned, incidentally, by pres. Karzai’s brother) – and clubs and things to do and see (like the first GeorgeRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: elderly, flexibility, Stretching, weight loss

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