Back to Basics — Master 3 Exercises for Functional Strength
The best way to begin a serious fitness program is to get back to basics when it comes to strength training.
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Keeping Your Neck Fit and Happy — Remedies For Neck Pain
Many people experience pain in their neck that often shoots down into the shoulders and arms. Today, I’d like to share five specific things to help avoid and ease neck pain.
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Energize Your Legs with Plyo Exercises
To help bring some energy back into your legs, you could try doing some plyometric exercises (plyo for short), which simply are exercises that include some jumping off the floor.
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Reversing Muscle Mass Decline
Most of us realize that muscle mass or size increases with exercise and decreases with inactivity. Muscle mass and size also decrease with aging. Sarcopenia is the medical term utilized to describe this process.
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‘Tech Neck,’ Premature Aging, and Poor Posture — A 21st Century Problem
More people are coming into doctor’s offices complaining of neck pain or associated shoulder and lower back pain. Often, it stems from their habits of looking down at their mobile phones and computer screens, a problem coined as ‘tech neck.’
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Fitness Saturday: Two Ways to Stretch the Large Muscles of the Legs
This is another post in our series of Fitness Saturday exercises, workouts, and expert tips appropriate to women in the second half of life. Jonathan Urla, health and fitness specialist, shares two ways to stretch the large muscles of the legs.
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The Real Value of Exercise (In the News)
Jonathan Urla, a certified advanced health and fitness specialist, shares highlights from a recent study on the value of exercise.
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Fitness Saturday: Measure the Moment — It’s All Good!
Life is full of wonderful opportunities to move and be active. Let's look at some common activities that can easily be turned into exercise, and you don’t need to be wearing your gym clothes to do them, although do wear your workout sneakers if you can.
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Christine Brennan and Sally Jenkins Put the Ryan Lochte Scandal Into Perspective (In the News)
Some of the best commentary on this sorry episode — the behavior of our swimmers from the United States, led by Ryan Lochte, who apparently lied about an encounter with security guards at a gas station — has come from two women who have been covering major sports for decades: Christine Brennan of USA Today and Sally Jenkins of The Washington Post.
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Women Athletes — and What They Wear?
Over the course of the past two weeks at the Olympic Games in Rio, the division in the way our global media culture reports on men and women athletes has received both praise and critique. When it comes to what our women champions are wearing, aka Olympic Fashion, as they compete, the divide cannot be any clearer.
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Fashion Meets Fitness Shoes
By Jonathan Urla, MFA
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Women’s sneakers have always come in colors and varying styles to match with casual wear, but recently shoe designers have come up with a truly different style of fashionable sneaker that has become all the rage: the Wedge Sneaker.
Cyclist Kristin Armstrong Shows She’s Not Too Old for Olympic Gold (In the News)
"You can set a goal and you can go accomplish anything you want. It doesn’t matter your age; it doesn’t matter where you’re from."
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The Wednesday Five: Champion Women
This week, as we continue to celebrate the global trailblazing women making and breaking records at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, we've curated five groundbreaking TED Talks by women in sports, or as we like to call them, Champion Women. Their shared grit and determination as long-distance swimmers, tennis icons, paralympic record breakers, marathon builders for peace, and pro snowboarders, are sure to motivate and inspire.
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Side Stabilization Exercises for Pilates
By Jonathan Urla, MFA
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Today I’m sharing a video of the basic “Side Kick” series from Pilates mat work exercises that mostly anyone can do.
Fitness Saturday: Injury Prevention, 101
By Jonathan Urla, MFA
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Take some time to be sensible in your workouts. Never sacrifice good form for more intensity. People get injured when doing exercise for various reasons. Here is a list of some of the most common causes and how to avoid them during exercise.