When dieting the loss of muscle as well as fat certainly occurs in all age groups, but as we age muscle loss will have more and more of a negative impact. Why? After about 25 years of age, we all start to lose muscle mass, strength and get reduced muscle function. Then from about age [...]
Category Archives: Exercise
Need To Exercise? Take A Pill?
August 4, 2008 – 3:25 pm
The pill that mimics exercise seems to have been all over the media in the last few days. Sounds too good to be true. How to get trim and buff with an exercise pill or two. Guess there are 2 types of pills, one where you need to exercise and one that you don’t. I [...]
Arm Toning Kit
March 24, 2008 – 9:53 am
Now that it looks like summer might actually come, suddenly I am aware of my flabby my arms. So yet again I decide to begin a program of arm toning. This year I have started to use the Target Your Arms Kit to see if my arms can get a bit more toned. In a [...]
Low Intensity Exercise May Relieve Feelings of Fatigue
March 2, 2008 – 10:20 pm
At the moment I am feeling relatively energized. I have a number of new projects, and spring, my favorite season, actually looks like it might be coming. In the late fall, my least favorite season, it was not the same story. I felt like I had no energy. In the evenings I would get home [...]
The Pedometer Challenge
February 23, 2008 – 5:22 pm
For Christmas I gave pedometers, as part of their presents, to four people at work. Included were some inspiring articles about walking, and some challenges with “really bad” prizes. The challenges were, 1) who could do the most steps in one week, 2) who could do the most steps in one week, and 3) who [...]
Weight Training Revs Up The Body Metabolism
February 9, 2008 – 5:29 pm
When weight training there is an increase in the proportion of type II fibers. A recent study showed that when there was a boost in the numbers of type II fibers in mice, that they had higher metabolic rate. The interesting thing about the finding is that the metabolic rate was not just increased in [...]
Continuing to stay in shape may slow aging
February 2, 2008 – 2:34 pm
As we age, we lose muscle mass and strength. However, an article in the New York Times discusses a study that suggests that if we can stay active, we can significantly slow the rate of loss. The study compared those who continued to train and those who stopped training. Those who continued to train, and [...]