Cardio Training for Weightlifters: A Special Source of Strength Over the many decades I have been...
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Fitness and Longevity: The Long Game
The Long Game: Fitness and Longevity News stories about research on technological breakthroughs...
Perfecting Mistakes: The Impact of Learning by Rote
Perfecting Mistakes: The Impact of Learning by Rote Like many of you I often observe people...
Longevity: Lifting Weights and Quality of Life
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...
Exercise Machines: Why Pay Big Bucks when Free is better?
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...
Why is Discipline so Hard? Plus Bonus Fat Loss Post
Accomplishing anything that takes commitment over time takes discipline. That is the ability to forgo short term pleasure for working longer term objectives. This work will often be difficult, frustrating, and occasionally dangerous. None of us would ever graduate...
Exercise and High Quality Longevity: Some new Tips and Tricks
Exercise and High-Quality Longevity: Some new Tricks and Tips High quality longevity means getting old(er) and feeling great. It means not having physical limitations on what you want to do (within reason). As I write this article Im a month from being 81 years old...
The Obesity Epidemic: Why it will be Hard to Reverse
Why are so many people so fat? Unfortunately, the answer is simple. They eat too much for their level of activity. What can we do about it? Straightforward, but definitely NOT easy. In this essay Ill offer a bit of perspective on why so many of us are obese and what...
Three Quick Tips for Speeding Your Reconditioning After Covid Shutdown
In the past month or so many of the gyms we have been missing have begun to open again. My gym of choice only opened again on April Fools Day. Many of us who have been working out but did not have access to barbells are back pursuing heavy lifting. The last thing any...