Your body is a wonderful thing, stress it with exercise over a period of weeks and adaptation occurs. Your body will adapt to the exercise induced stress and improve how it responds. Exercise training is an adaptive process. The body will adapt to the stress of exercise with increased fitness, Read more…
If you want to be strong and healthy you have to train with some weights. Resistance training is part of the fountain of youth accompanied by diet and other movement. Lifting is critical to your long term health and you must come to terms with the barbell or at least Read more…
The definition of inertia is a tendency to do nothing, to remain unchanged. Are you doing nothing? Are you remaining unchanged? It is easy to do the same thing over and over again. You grow comfortable with the regularity and the consistency. Its nice to know what to expect and Read more…
Do you measure yourself to those around you? If you do look out because more than one adult in three is overweight or obese. Do you find yourself saying “yea I know I’m out of shape and I need to lose a LBS, but I better than that guy (or Read more…
I have included the abstract of a Dutch Study regarding HIIT and insulin sensitivity in aged subjects. The study determined that HIIT is beneficial. Abstract Aim Metabolic health may deteriorate with age as a result of altered body composition and decreased physical activity. Endurance exercise is known to counter these Read more…
A National Bureau of Economic Research study authored by Poterba, Venti and Wise found that people who were the healthiest 20% in their fifties retired with three times the retirement funds of a similar aged group who were the least healthy. The healthy persons also spent down their funds slower Read more…
Exercise keeps you healthy. If you are in poor health, exercise can improve your health and increase the odds that you can become healthy. Exercise boosts your immune system, keeps the mind sharp, improves sleep, maintains muscle tone, and extends a healthy lifespan. Extending a healthy lifespan should be the Read more…
While aging brings with it a host of health related problems it can be the best period of a person’s life if done well. I am not going to dig into the existential question of what is life’s purpose which is an extremely important topic. I will merely say that Read more…
Diet or exercise which is the most important component of healthy living? To start let me just say they both are important and both should be a part of your daily practices. But, if you diligently went to the gym and exercised consistently would that overcome or compensate for a Read more…
Exercise releases a hormone that helps the body remove fat and keep it off. The hormone irisin converts white fat, which is considered bad fat or fat that can be harmful, to brown fat a fat that has beneficial health benefits. White fat stores calories, brown fat burns energy. The Read more…