AN ANABOLIC STATE THAT SUPPORTS MUSCLE GROWTH You can only build muscle if your body is in the correct anabolic balance to allow growth to take place. Intensive exercise is clearly an important part of the muscle building process but achieving the maximum muscle mass depends on putting the building blocks in place. This is achieved through sound nutritional practices …
Getting Fit Again as a Senior
Are you a formerly active senior person Getting Fit Again? Do you want to reclaim your fitness? Getting fit was easy when we were young. Many of us seniors were active in our youth and our middle age years. What happened? Life happened. Work, family and all the responsibilities of life took over your time. Those weekly softball games got …
Dance to Your Health
DANCE TO YOUR HEALTH We as a world are more aware than ever of the importance of dance and physical fitness to our overall health. While we remain aware of the need for physical activity far too many of us find far too few reasons to incorporate physical activity into our daily lives and routines. There are many reasons that …
Dairy: Diet Boost or Boomerang?
DAIRY: DIET BOOST OR BOOMERANG? Adequate dairy calcium intake has long been recommended for stronger bones. But lately, calcium has been scoring headlines for its possible link with weight loss. While I hope this news will be a boon to dieters, I’m afraid it could also boomerang. Why? It panders to the fantasy that eating certain foods will make you …
Cycling – Push Those Pedals to Lose Weight
CYCLING – PUSH THOSE PEDALS TO LOSE WEIGHT Cycling pedal power, in all its varieties (road bike, exercise bike, or spinning bike) offers a wide range of health benefits including: a.) Excellent calorie burn. (Typically 400 calories an hour for an exercise bike, 700-800 for a road bike, and 1000 for a spinning bike.) b.) Superior cardiovascular conditioning. Cycling builds …
YOGA for Modern Day Stresses
YOGA FOR MODERN DAY STRESSES Yoga is a 3,000-year-old, Hindu discipline of mind and body that became known in Western society with the hippie generation of the Sixties and early Seventies. Its image as a mystic practice is disappearing as fast as the stressful aspects of the Eighties are appearing. As an effective method of stress management, it is spreading …
YOGA for Asthma And Healthy Lungs
YOGA FOR ASTHMA AND HEALTHY LUNGS Yoga breathing exercises could help sufferers of mild asthma and may help reduce their use of low-dose drug inhalers in wheezing attacks. Researchers from the Respiratory Medicine Unit, City University, Nottingham, call for more studies of ways of improving breathing control which they say have been largely ignored by Western medicine. While practitioners have …
Creatine Helps The Body Build Muscle
CREATINE HELPS THE BODY BUILD MUSCLE Creatine is a naturally formed amino acid that is found in the human body, especially around the skeletal muscle. The human body generates Creatine naturally, partly from the diet we take and partly on its own. A healthy person has about 120g of it, most of it being in the form of a compound …
Create your Home Gym with Minimum of Equipment
CREATE YOUR HOME GYM WITH MINIMUM OF EQUIPMENT Training with a home gym could prove as a good solution for the ones interested. The effectiveness of this type of training could compare to the one of working out in the gym, as long as some factors are considered. The first, and at the same time the most important of these, …
Austin Business Journal
Because I am the spokesman for Sweating Seniors I was recently granted the opportunity to be interviewed by the digital editor of Austin Business Journal, Will Anderson. During the interview I spoke about my goals and the mission of the Sweating Seniors team which is to encourage people of all ages to think about their health and overall fitness and …