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REAL-News --June-2020Oct 12

October 12, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

Walking in Wellness into Your Waning Years

We have all read and heard and watched exercise and medical professionals espouse the benefits of exercise. We have all heard about how being fit reduces your risk of many diseases – heart, brain, musculoskeletal, etc – and that the sooner you get to it, the better off you’ll be. But what about getting toRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: musculoskeletal improvements, reduce your risk of falling, sarcopenia, Senior Training, Walking

Canal in AmsterdamDec 30

December 30, 2014 By Irv Rubenstein

Personal Fitness, Amsterdam Style

Enjoying the holidays without losing sight of your own well-being is the daunting task so many of us face, yet so few of us fail to achieve. Even with the so-called joys of the season, the gifting, the parties, the cards and letters, etc, we Americans seem to have an amazingly hard time simply livingRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: achieve well-being, Amsterdam, Bicycling, Enjoying the holidays, Walking

Why Walk When You Can Sit?Jun 20

June 20, 2011 By Irv Rubenstein

The 10% Rule of Running

There’s a standard exercise prescription in the cardio world, coming from the running community, that you should only increase your weekly mileage by 10%. this is stated so as to minimize risk of injury. It translates like so: If you start running, or even walking, one mile a day, seven days/wk, a 10% increase couldRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: Exercise, exercise progression, Walking, weight loss

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