FabFit50s

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 was at a gym opening last Saturday. A woman about my own age, give or take, told me she wanted to lose weight first, then start weight training. I’m happy she signed up at the gym. It’s a great thing that she wants to start moving her body. And she seemed stoked that she was [...]

An article in the June 22 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology reports that high levels of HDL cholesterol (often referred to as the “good” cholesterol) may lower your risk for cancer. (Here‘s a summary, from Medline Plus.) Of course, we’ve already read that high levels of HDL can help protect [...]

Poor exercise technique can have truly undesirable consequences. Especially when you are doing the movement repeatedly. And especially when you’re using weight to perform the movement. Not to say you shouldn’t exercise–just take care! Let’s talk about cervical hyperextension. This occurs when you’re pushing your head rearward while performing an exercise. You see it in the gym [...]

 How vigorously do you exercise? Are you one of those people who goes into the gym and spends more time looking around than working out hard? If so, you’ll want to step it up a bit! Especially if you are dealing with chronic psychological stress. Not sure that you are? Are you unemployed, financially stressed, [...]

A couple of weeks ago, The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) issued their 2010 position statement on the management of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women. The statement discusses (among other things, like diet and supplementation) the importance of weight-bearing and strength-training exercise. These activities result in stress to the bone, which in turn results in increased bone mass and, therefore, [...]