If you read my blog, you know I’m an advocate of a whole food, plant-based eating pattern (WFPB). I believe WFPB gives over-50 adults and seniors the best chance to age gracefully, overcome unfavorable genetics and counteract the dietary and…
The core, often misunderstood to be just the abdominals, is actually the whole midsection or trunk of the body from hips/pelvis to the neck. Last post, I covered why it’s so important for seniors to have a functionally fit core…
Perhaps forty years ago the abdominal crunch (AC) was originally promoted as being a “safer” alternative to the classical sit up exercise. It’s still a popular “core training” exercise today, but I haven’t used it for my clients in many…
This month I re-read Younger Next Year, a book by Harry S. Lodge, M.D., and Chris Crowley. I chose this month to post on it to honor the one-year anniversary of Dr. Lodge’s death from prostate cancer in March, 2017…
For an audience of over-50 adults and seniors – my client group - I should post about topics more important than the resistance-training exercise called Dumbbell Triceps Kickback (DTK). My excuse is I’m human: I see DTK performed almost every…
Nutrition instruction is not part of my professional practice - I’m a 35-year exercise professional - so my clients always express disbelief when I tell them their eating habits are probably more important to their health than their exercise habits…
I always emphasize over-50/senior fitness begins with improving fundamental movement and body control skills. My clients typically improve movement with functional (feet-on-the-ground) exercises I teach them in the gym, but often need to build an awareness to apply the same…
If you’ve read my last two posts you’re familiar with the concepts of hip and knee dominance and understand that over-50 adults and seniors should cultivate hip dominant movement. Hopefully you’ve grooved an error-free Wall Hip Hinge Pattern (WHHP), so…
For over-50 adults and seniors, the place to start fitness development is optimizing fundamental movement and body control skills. This is important because many aging adults express dysfunctional movement patterns which contribute to unstable and inefficient movement and place needless…
Last post I talked about the need to stand more and sit less. This post let’s talk about a simple exercise which helps create better organization of your body when you stand and also serves as an important foundation for…