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Heat stress training: A Potential Advantage for Strength Athletes

by | November 6, 2022 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Losing weight over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Muscle over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

Heat stress training: A Potential Advantage for Strength Athletes Over many decades of strength training I have concluded that for drug free lifters the only thing that produces results is consistent training with weights. Proper diet and basic supplements along with...
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Where does fat go when you lose it? Mainly out of your mouth.

by | November 6, 2022 | Exercise Over 50, Fat loss over 50, Fitness over 50, Losing weight over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

Where does fat go when you lose it? Mainly out of your mouth. For someone who has been involved in physical fitness activities for decades, I was surprised to find that I didnt know the precise answer to this question. There is was in my daily news update from MIT...
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Learn to listen to your body: Key to building strength and endurance

by | November 6, 2022 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

Learn to listen to your body: Key to building strength and endurance Back in the 1970s the first US based research on factors impacting sports performance emerged. When the running boom was in its early stages, a few psychologists began trying to figure out what elite...
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Exercise: How much is Enough?

Everyone who does physical training want's to know the answer to this question. How much exercise is "enough". The answer to this really depends on several things....called variables....that are different for every person. This brief article is intended to help you...

New Years Resolutions for Men over 50

New Years Resolutions for a Man Over 50 Well'it is January 1, 2015 about 1:30 AM, and Our Hero is hosting a typical New Year's Eve Party. The early signs of post-holiday guilt are just setting in. In an an alcohol slurred voice Our Hero declares “thissss year Im gonna...

Weight training and brain health

In a previous article, I discussed the impact of aerobic exercise on brain health, and the scientific research supporting that work. The impacts that weight training can have on brain health are complementary to the aerobic training, but not overlapping. Aerobic...

Brain health and exercise – The benefits of Aerobic Training

Brain health is one of the major issues that emerges as a person ages. Over age 50, the prospect of cognitive decline, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease become serious issues. The good news is that there are some things that anyone can do to drastically reduce the...