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I quieted my alarm at 5:05 a.m. and rolled over to doze an extra two hours, giving myself a full nine hours of sleep. By mid-morning mind and body felt really alert and energetic. Only one word could describe the feeling of having obtained enough sleep that day: “Precious” – defined as of great value; […]

This week we review a term that improves the lives of age 45+ individuals. It’s called “BDNF” or brain-derived neurotrophic factor. Quoting directly from my favorite fitness writer, Pete McCall…”There is plenty of research showing that exercise stimulates a neurotransmitter (chemicals which help the central nervous system do its job) called BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor)

“What a cool, descriptive word,” I thought, when introduced to the term Inflammaging. The word appeared under the Causes of Mobility Dysfunction section of my Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) Golf Fitness course. That Inflammation plus aging1 equals inflammaging obviously isn’t cool. Generally as inflammaging increases, a person will feel stiffer in overall movement. Inflammaging’s symptoms

Chances are as you read this post, I am flying home from Virginia. Hopefully you’ve had a great week. Let’s celebrate computer software that allows for writing a post and scheduling it to publish six days later. We live in a marvelous outreach day and age. I’ve thought of you much while visiting family. Hope

Perhaps our rock climber has a stronger grip than most of us need for every day use. Yet medical research states that a powerful grip can serve as a biomarker, a measurable indicator, of long life in women and men.1 No need to read further if you do manual labor, or live and work on

Must we be utilitarian in our quest for Balance exercises? Are fitness health and safety protocols designed to be useful and practical, never attractive? Is developing the strong core which protects us during a fall – repetitive, boring drudge work? Where is the grace? Nose to the grindstone workouts are not for us. Imagine standing

Today’s conversation turns to defining ourselves. Specifically I refer to almost death knell self-talk about age – such as “…What can be expected, I’m fifty (or sixty, seventy, eighty, etc.)” Reversing, putting a different spin on, self-defeating talk can be accomplished with one four-letter word. Try using it when we feel that the calendar affects

Even a slight swayback with protuberant stomach (depending on the amount of abdominal fat) can surprise us when we notice it while walking by the mirror. Returning to Dr. Vladimir Janda – (for a reminder click here) – today we introduce Dr. Janda’s muscle imbalance Lower-crossed syndrome, shown in our model below. (Hmm… Isn’t this

Where do the commands Back and Down belong? These words ought to muster in our shoulder blades – where in anatomical terms back means retraction (drawing back in together) and down signifies depression (downward movement.) IF we want to minimize/reverse/ameliorate what Dr. Vladimir Janda* called upper-crossed syndrome, as shown in the top right figure, we

Happy Monday everybody. I had software problems when attempting to write today’s blog post.Hope to send out corrected version this Wednesday! WF!