Strength Training is NOT Optional
The weakness and loss of energy we associate with getting older, such as difficulty walking distances, climbing stairs, or carrying groceries, are largely due to muscle tissue loss. This muscle loss, for the most part, is from living an inactive…
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A Full Body Workout that Works!
Are you tired of thinking about which body parts need exercise today, or how often the exercises you’ve adopted for particular muscles and limbs need rotating to stay effective?
Are you looking for a full body workout that does exactly…
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Muscles and Metabolism…
Many people are confused about our metabolism (our body’s engine) and have little idea of how to keep it in good running condition.
What do you think has the biggest impact on it? Age? Activity levels? Thyroid function? Wrong, wrong…
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Strong Heart Muscles Matter
Most of us never give so much of a thought to one of the most important muscles in our body – our heart.
This underappreciated muscle/organ beats away in the background like some faithful servant, never complaining and always on…
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Key Behaviors for Permanent Weight-Loss
When it comes to being healthy, losing weight and slimming down where should your focus be? Exercise or diet?
Both. Weight loss is achieved by burning more calories than you take in or consuming fewer than you burn.
Permanent weight…
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A Sedentary Lifestyle Promotes Accelerated Aging
You only need to take a look around you to see that most everyone in so-called civilized nations are actually pursuing an “accelerated aging program”; one that leaves us feeling old and exhausted long before our time.
Consuming a diet…
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Strength Training Helps Eliminate Emotional Stress
Our modern-day lives are indeed busy. Technology continues to speed up our world, placing excessive demands on our time, causing personal expectations to rise. This undue stress ends up plagueing us with health damaging, negative emotions as it weaves its…
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Epigenetics and the Science of Longevity
In the past decade, science broke through many previous taboos in understanding and deciphering molecular, cellular and genetic aging.
The new science of longevity was born –
Longevity is not a new topic. It has been an area of interest…
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Advantages of Slow Weight Training
There are numerous ways you can approach resistance training but one version that seems to work well for lots of people is called “slow weight training”.
This kind of exercise fits the description of a complete exercise. The benefits reach…
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Make Exercise a Priority Habit
You have finally taken the leap and joined the gym or maybe you have adopted a new exercise routine that you know will help you get you back into shape.
You should congratulate yourself. You have now accomplished the hardest…
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