FabFit50s

Is your back strong enough to hold you up? Don’t laugh. As you age, you need to work on keeping your entire body strong. That certainly includes your back.  Strong back muscles help to hold you upright. One great exercise to help strengthen your back is the one-arm dumbbell (DB) row. You can perform this exercise [...]

    What’s your plan when you go to the gym?  Looking around, I see lots of people moving from exercise to exercise, obviously lacking a well-considered plan. It’s not just a woman thing, either. Men are just as likely to knock off a few shoulder presses and maybe some DB curls before they mosey over [...]

The more you sit, the greater your risk for an early death. You kind of knew that, right? But, just in case, these findings,  from a study just published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, should be enough to get you off the couch! The study tracked more than 123,000 adults (ages 50 to 74) over [...]

  Sometimes it helps just to have some easy mantras in your head. Such as when you’re in a diner and the server wants to know if you want more starch with your starch.  Or when you’re planning dinner. Here are a few of the “tricks”–or mind messages–I use.     1. Hash browns or [...]

Monday starts a new training split for me. (How about YOU? When was the last time you changed YOUR training split?) A “split,” if you don’t know, is the arrangment of your weight-training days. It’s what body parts you work, in what combination, on which days. It’s a good idea to change up what you’re [...]

For really great legs, don’t forget the step-up. Of course, I could just as easily have shown you a picture of some nice, tight glutes. That’s what a properly executed step-up, combined with a good diet, will give you–nice legs and glutes! But…if your body fat is not that low, you will at the minimum have [...]

I don’t believe in spending too much time at the gym. Usually, I’m done after 40 minutes of weights–seldom longer, unless I’m working abs or calves, OR trying to squeeze in 10-20 minutes of interval cardio. After legs, though, I usually skip cardio. My legs are beat! Here’s my approach to leg-training. It’s quite simple, [...]

It is GREAT to see that researchers are looking into the health of post-menopausal women. What’s vital is learning what we can do after we turn 50 to make sure our remaining years are as free of disease, aches, pains and problems, as possible.  Here’s a new study that adds to the mounting evidence that resistance training [...]