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…
This is my third and final post on whole foods, plant-based eating/nutrition – read my previous two posts here and here. This post was inspired by Admiral William McRaven’s commencement address at the U. of Texas, Austin; often called the…
Last post I wrote about a whole foods, plant-based diet as an eating strategy which is perhaps better than exercise for its positive health benefits. Because people’s needs differ in terms of the type of information/support needed to implement a…
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…
Last post I suggested over-50 adults and seniors should start fitness development by improving fundamental movement and body control skills. I outlined how joint and tissue sparing movements involve loading the hips first because they are designed to carry the…
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…