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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you are probably familiar with one of the most popular home fitness programs on DVD: P90X. This program is quite literally a phenomenon in the fitness industry. You can browse around YouTube and watch video after video of people’s amazing physical transformations.
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May 6, 2011 — Despite repeated calls over the years by public health officials for people to increase exercise and physical activity, Americans are walking and cycling only a little more now than they were a decade ago, a new study shows.
The average American made 17 more “walk trips” in 2009 than in 2001, covering just 9 more miles per year, the study says.
But that compares with only two more bike trips — and a total of five more annual miles of cycling, according to the research team from Rutgers University, Virginia Tech, and the University of Sydney.
They researchers say improvements in infrastructure, such as creation of sidewalks and bike paths, are needed, and that these changes should be made along with establishing educational programs that stress the importance of a more active lifestyle.
The researchers compared findings from the National Household Travel Surveys for 2001 and 2009.
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July 19, 2011 (Paris) — One in three retired NFL football players appear to have mild cognitive impairment (MCI), researchers report.
“Cognitive impairment seems to be more prevalent in retired American football players than in the general population that age, where you do not see rates anywhere approaching 35%,” says study head Christopher Randolph, PhD, clinical professor of neurology at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago.
The findings are preliminary.
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Hey everyone!
I hope you’re all doing great!
When I sit down with a prospective client for the first time, I warn them that I’m going to ask some pretty invasive questions, most importantly about why they’re here and what they want to accomplish.
I do this because after being in this industry for years I know that the number one reason why people give up on their fitness or weight loss goals doesn’t have to do with injuring themselves…nope!
Instead, more often than not it’s the mental side of exercising and eating right that most people have trouble with.
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March 3, 2011 — Despite some previous research casting doubt on the value of physical activity for the knees, a new study says it’s beneficial for knee joint health.
Researchers in Australia say although it’s true that exercise has been linked to bony spurs called osteophytes, physical activity in general is good for the knees.
“Several studies have already examined the impact of physical activity on the knee as a whole, but none [has] looked at the effect of physical activity on individual parts of the knee,” Flavia Cicuttini, PhD, one of the researchers, says in a statement.
Cicuttini, of the Baker Heart Research Institute and Monash University in Melbourne, says “exercise affects each part of the knee differently, which helps explain why there have been conflicting reports for so long.”
Osteoarthritis: Exercises for OA of the Knee
The research team, led by Cicuttini and Donna Urquhart, PhD, also of Monash University, examined data from 28 studies containing information on 9,737 people from all over the world.
All the studies examined the relationship between physical activity and knee osteoarthritis. Studies als
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