Category Archives for Fitness After 40

All About PushUps

Swiss Balls and Iron: Do They Mix?

A friend of mine asked me to look over his training routine a while ago so I met up with him at his gym and walked through the drills he was doing. His main goal was “body shaping” –

Do Sore Muscles Mean A Good Workout?

One year for our wedding anniversary, Ellen and I went to Aspen, Colorado. It was in the fall. The weather was fantastic. Bright blue, sunny skies, crisp mornings, warm afternoons. So, all of this awesome

ATTENTION WOMEN: How Much Fat is Enough?

Yeah, guys can read this too. But for women, it’s critical. In the first three months of every year, the media slams us with images of women in bikinis who look like they just squeaked through puberty.

A Primer on Priming from a World Class Runner

I’ve talked about and taught the importance of priming – using movement to loosen the body, warm up the joints, tendons, muscles, and ligaments (as opposed tostatic stretching) prior to training

The Paradox Of Body Image

  People exercise or “workout” for lots of reasons. I conducted a survey s few years ago and found there were five main reasons: Positive health (to have a healthy body) Strength and

Question about P90X

  “Recently, I’ve begun doing P90X. I’m 57 and a former distance runner who has stayed in relatively good shape, although I now have osteoporosis. I’m seeing good results from this new

Why Exercise is the Ultimate Recycling Service

Once a week, I dump a large plastic bin full of paper, cardboard, bottles, and plastic into an even larger trash container and shuttle it out to the street. The City of Austin provides a great recycling

Master This Movement For A Stronger You

This article is about how to use the squat as a drill to improve trunk, hip, and leg strength. Take my advice and get this down before you try adding much weight to the movement. The extra weight will

Can You Get Fit In 12 Minutes A Week?

Dr. Doug McGuff, in his book “Body by Science: A Research Based Program to Get the Results You Want in Twelve Minutes a Week”, suggests that if you exercise once per week for about twelve total