Get Fit, Lose Weight, Build a Great Body, Prevent Disease By Paul Rogers, The benefits that many of us derive from weight training are diverse and categorical, so I’m inclined to view them in two conveniently defined categories: 1. Wellness, self-esteem and mind-body fusion and: 2. Remediation and alleviation of injury or chronic health conditions [...]
The American College of Sports Medicine recommends that advanced athletes who want to maximize strength gains should lift heavy weights (1-6 repetition maximum) with three to five minutes rest between sets. Brazilian scientists reinforced this important principle of strength training. They measured the effect of resting one minute, three minutes or five minutes between sets [...]
By: Paul Rogers If there’s one chronic injury that defines the upright walking Homo sapiens (that’s us), it is the back injury. Never have so many suffered so much . . . well, you know how it goes. It’s as if evolution was a little rushed with this one and our spines didn’t quite get the full [...]
By Shereen Jegtvig, Healthy Foods for a Healthy Lifestyle There are several fad diets that will lead to successful weight loss if you follow them exactly as they are designed. That doesn’t mean every food that fits into a diet is a healthy food, but it does mean you have to change your eating patterns [...]
