by Richard | Mar 8, 2022 | Anti-aging fitness, Exercise Over 50, Health over 50, Longevity fitness, Look younger at 50, Look younger at 50, Men's fitness over 50, Weight Training Over 50
At What Age do you Start to Decline? People who do not exercise begin to experience muscle atrophy in their mid to late 20s. This condition called sarcopenia is the gradual erosion of skeletal muscles. Left untreated, this condition can render a person in their 60s...
by Richard | Feb 19, 2022 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Health over 50, Longevity fitness, Look younger at 50, Men's fitness over 50, Muscle over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50
The Isochain: A Great Invention for Optimal Isometric Training The Isochain is a unique training device designed and developed to optimize isometric training for strength building. As Ill discuss in this article, IMHO every serious strength athlete can derive...
by Richard | Feb 18, 2022 | Anti-aging fitness, Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Health over 50, Longevity fitness, Men's fitness over 50, Over 50 lifestyle, Weight Training Over 50
Can You Look Younger at 50? You can definitely look and feel much younger at 50, 60 or beyond if you are presently out of shape and a bit overweight. Getting in good physical condition will not only make you look younger, but it will probably make you much healthier....
by Richard | Feb 14, 2022 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Health over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50, Weight Training Over 50
Is Powerlifting a Healthy Activity? Yes, but with caveats. Many want to know whether lifting heavy weights in powerlifting training is healthy for them. Having lifted weights for over a half century, I strongly endorse the idea that powerlifting training can be very...
by Richard | Feb 12, 2022 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Health over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Muscle over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50
The Worst Thing that Can Happen to a Lifter: Injuries! What bad stuff happens to a lifter? Not missing a lift.that happens a lot. With few exceptions, lifters forget any given lift (unless it is a PR) within a few minutes of doing it. Bombing out in a contest.that...
by Richard | Nov 8, 2021 | Anti-aging fitness, Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Health over 50, Longevity fitness, Men's fitness over 50, Over 50 lifestyle, Weight Training Over 50, Weight Training Over 50
Longevity, Quality of Life and Weightlifting Lifting weights regularly can definitely add high quality years to your life. I make this statement based on my own experience, observing others, and reading some of the scant literature on longevity. I make this claim as...
by Richard | Nov 8, 2021 | Anti-aging fitness, Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Health over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Over 50 lifestyle, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50
Exercise Machines: Why Pay Big Bucks when Free is Better? At age 81 I am a registered member of the old school of fitness training. As I view the proliferation of new and improved fitness products I am routinely struck by how many of them provide a zero or negative...
by Richard | Sep 29, 2021 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Health over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Muscle over 50, Over 50 lifestyle, Weight Training Over 50, Weight Training Over 50
Building habits for the life you want Each of us has only so much energy and time during a given day. If we want to realize our full potential, we need to make the best possible use of our limited resources of time and energy. This is often call time management. That...
by Richard | Sep 29, 2021 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Health over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Muscle over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50
With Covid scrambling the schedule for powerlifting meets and the off/on opening of gyms, I have oriented my own training to physical conditioning rather than straight power. I have also changed up the routines for some of my coaching clients to emphasize (drum roll)...
by Richard | Aug 17, 2021 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Health over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Muscle over 50, Over 50 lifestyle, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50, Weight Training Over 50
UN-Learning: A key to consistent progress It aint what you dont know that gets you in trouble, its what you know for sure that just aint so – Mark Twain Somehow Mark Twain must have known about the fitness industry. Just about everyone seems to be an expert....