Perfecting Mistakes: The Impact of Learning by Rote Like many of you I often observe people...
Weight Training Over 50
The Velvet Coffin Where is your fitness journey taking you?
The Velvet Coffin Where is your fitness journey taking you? We are all familiar with making...
Two unusual exercises: big benefit zero popularity
Two unusual exercises: big benefit zero popularity Over many decades working out in gyms, I have...
Enjoying a Long Healthy Life: You Cant Fool Mother Nature
Enjoying a Long Healthy Life: You Cant Fool Mother Nature This past week a friend sent me an article from the Atlantic magazine that bemoaned how unfriendly and intimidating the fitness industry can be for those who are out of shape but want to start an exercise...
Sustaining a fit lifestyle: The value of Primary Experience
Sustaining a fit lifestyle: The value of Primary Experience Those of us in the fitness business are constantly trying to understand why people abandon fitness programs. In my view, part of the cause is using artificial realities for training where people do not...
Is Powerlifting a Healthy Activity? Yes, but with some caveats.
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...
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...
Building habits for the life you want
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...