I just watched an interview with the author of The End of Alzheimer's, Dale Bredesen. This fills me with so much hope. Not because I have experience cognitive decline, but because this is another of the BIG scary diseases that rips your life from you that has a solution. It is the same feeling I had when I have watched documentaries or read articles about real solutions to the diseases that most people fear. Whether it is cancer or Alzheimer’s, disease is preventable and cura

Why do we do that? The Warm Up Warming your body it makes it more pliable. In other words it can stretch more. Your muscles are created to stretch about 150%. Just like many other substances, warming muscles up makes them more pliable so they can achieve their maximum lengthening without any damage to the muscle fibers. Stretching is best when the muscles are warm, not cold. Your joints are may be the most important thing to warm up. Especially as you age. Like me. The synovi

People want to lose weight. Often people think that running is the best way to lose weight because runners are generally skinny. Although running does burn a fair amount of calories, it is not the highest calorie burning exercise. What is it? What is the fountain of skinny exercise? An exercise that uses more MET’s. I am not talking about the New York Mets, but metabolic equivalent. When you boil it down it tells us how much energy you are expending. You probably have seen ME

Have you ever seen the Four Quadrants of Time Management? If not, click on the hyperlink. Basically, there are things that are urgent or non-urgent, and things that are important and non-important. I would like to propose that you can keep your health out of the urgent box if it is in the important box. Let me explain. Health IS important to all of us at the time of some type of dysfunction. Whether it is disease or injury, our bodies are always important to us. When you have

What is happening to the word “health”. I think It is getting hijacked. For a long time I have seen guys and gals who have tremendous looking physiques but eat like crap. Then there is the guy getting his last drag on a cigarette before stepping into the gym. I understand there has always been a fuzzy line with fitness, buffness and being in shape, but the word health? Really? We talk about health like it doesn’t mean what we all were taught it meant. The meaning has been exp

I finished a difficult leg workout this morning and had a thought. “I never pushed myself this hard when I went to a big box gym.” Especially legs! I did more machines and less free weights on legs because…, it was easier. Even though the burn was in the muscles and maximum effort was attained, it still doesn’t compare to our leg workouts here. Was the difference using free weight? I do think that is a factor. While machines have their place, for most of us, we will benefit m