FabFit50s

220 minus your age? For women…a thing of the past. A team at Northwestern University determined that women have a lower peak heart rate (designated in beats per minute)  than men do and require a different formula to calculate their peak heart rate. The new formula? 206 minus 88% of your age.  Not quite as simple to [...]

…if you want to enjoy optimum health, that is.  KEEP YOUR MUSCLE! After age 35, we lose 5% of our muscle mass every 10 years, according to Dr. Michael Roizen, Chief Wellness Officer at the Cleveland Clinic. That’s IF we don’t exercise the right way to preserve muscle tissue. If you don’t exercise, and you [...]

  Think you know how to perform this common exercise? A lot of people do. And a lot of people have sloppy form. Here’s how to get the most out of your biceps workout. You can perform the biceps curl either seated or standing–using a bar, a cable attachment (bar or handle), or DBs. Let’s look [...]

Has your progress stalled? Maybe it’s time to change up what you’re doing in the gym. If you’ve been doing the same workout split for the last 6 weeks or longer, I highly recommend it. But how can you change things? I’ll show you what I did. I just started a new program which I’ll continue [...]

Running your first marathon? Be cautious! While trying to improve your health and fitness, you could actually be hurting both! Women who overexercise and who also fail to fuel their bodies properly may be putting themselves at risk for a variety of health concerns, warns Dr. Neeru Jayanthi, medical director of primary care sports medicine at [...]

I’m going to assume this… You’re working out and breaking down your muscles 4 days a week. To recover and rebuild, your muscles require the amino acids from protein. But how much? The International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN) recommends that people who exercise take in protein ranging from 1.4 g to 2.0 g per kilogram [...]

This is about your posture, which you may not have fretted about since you were a youngin’. First, take an honest assessment of your posture. How do you look? Strong? Fit? Full of vitality? Now, how will you look in 10 years? Or 20? Without proper exercise (including stretching), changes in your body over the years [...]

…in the gym, that is. The negative is the eccentric part of every exercise. Every exercise movement has a concentric (or positive) portion, in which the target muscles contract. And an eccentric (or negative) portion, in which the target muscles extend or stretch. Take the biceps curl. Think how you might perform this using a [...]