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No Brain, No Gain

by | July 16, 2024 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Longevity fitness, Men's fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

No Brain, No Gain Having spent many years in gyms, I am consistently surprised by the number of people who work out for years and never seem to make any progress. Not changing much if you are in great condition is probably OK. However, most people who train regularly...
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Cutting Edge Innovations in Fitness and Health: Buyer Beware!

by | April 29, 2024 | Anti-aging fitness, Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Health over 50, Longevity fitness, Men's fitness over 50, Over 50 lifestyle, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50 | 0 Comments

Cutting Edge Innovations in Fitness and Health: Buyer Beware! There are a staggering number of products and programs offered for sale in the fitness and health universe. Many of these are marketed as significant innovations. Most of us have developed a reasonable...
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Golf and Powerlifting: Some Surprising Similarities

by | April 16, 2024 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Muscle over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

Golf and Powerlifting: Some Surprising Similarities To achieve a high level of performance in both golf and powerlifting excellent balance is required. This is an underappreciated training requirement for both sports that is rarely discussed in the literature on...
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Performance Metrics for Weightlifters: The Useful and the Useless

In recent years there has been a proliferation of fitness apps that record activities during workouts and provide data to the user. IMHO most fitness apps are brain dead and convey minimal information that is of any use. They create an illusion of precision by...

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...

What can Powerlifters Learn from Golfers

With the Masters Golf Championship being played this week in Augusta, Georgia, I happened to hear an interview on Freakonomics Radio with Greg Norman one of the all-time great golfers. I should note that I know almost nothing about golf. I do not even know where you...