Diabetes is a metabolic disease that happens to people everywhere, all year round. But November is a time when several health advocacy organizations aim to draw attention to the seriousness of the condition, what it is, how it can be treated, and how it might be...
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Getting Back to Exercise from a Lower Back Injury
One of the major concerns for anyone recovering from an injury is the possibility of re-injury. This holds true especially for recovering from lower back problems. Re-injury may occur because of inadequate reconditioning and rehabilitative exercise.When an...
When ‘Low’ is the Way to Go
There are many benefits to high intensity exercise, but there are also situations in which low intensity can be the best way to go. Let’s use as a prime example the case of the client whose main goal is losing fat. Often, the client starts off by being most efficient...
Achoo! Is it a cold – or an allergy?
The air can be filled with respiratory irritants, from man-made pollution to pollen and mold spores that lead to sneezing and wheezing year round. But colds can happen throughout the year, too. How can you tell the difference, and why does it matter? The Cleveland...
Exercise, Diet Keys to Better Overall Health as We Age, Study Suggests
Becoming and staying physically active may significantly improve both musculoskeletal and overall health, and help offset or delay the effects of aging. According a recently published review of literature on the effects of exercise and diet on aging, much of the...
How Obese is Your State?
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1995 began collecting data on adult obesity in all 50 states, the highest rate was 19%. In 2013, each state had an obesity rate of at least 20%. The CDC released a map showing obesity rates state by state.1 The...
For the Fat Loss Client, Low Intensity a Way to Go
Many people who turn to exercise to lose fat do so with a burst of enthusiasm that tapers off rapidly when results are not as fast as they would expect, when discomfort is greater than anticipated, or when they perceive a time commitment to be longer than first...
It Takes More Than Muscle to Retain Clients
By Cathleen Kronemer, NSCA-CPT, Certified Health Coach To quote those dynamic, quirky, yet somehow unforgettable Spice Girls, "Oh, tell me what you want, what you really, really want…" We have all been in the position where we feel that a client is perhaps not being...
Heart Choices not Hard Choices: World Heart Day 2014
Cardiovascular disease and one of its complications – stroke – are the leading causes of death around the globe, with some estimates putting the number of lives claimed as high as 17.3 million each year. The message of World Heart Day, held each year on Sept. 29, is...
An Hour of Exercise a Day Could Keep Heart Failure Away
How much is one hour each day worth to you? What if that one hour were devoted to exercise, and that it could lower your risk of heart failure by almost 50 percent? According to the results of a new study from Sweden, an hour or more of moderate or half an hour of...
Exercising the Whole Body
Paying more attention to the "showier" muscles of the upper body has been a fairly common, if inherently unbalanced, view of resistance exercise. The muscles of the lower body account for much of the body's total lean mass, so getting a good workout means making it a...
Exercise & the Senior Client
Clients ages 50 and over are sometimes treated with "kid gloves". Training should be prescribed on an individual basis, of course, but barring contraindications, there are many types of exercise that can be beneficial to seniors. At a time when more people expect to...
Keep on Moving (to Keep on Moving)
Science has long found a number of strong links between the amount we exercise and the benefits to our health. More recently, researchers have been looking at the situation from another angle and are finding that too much sedentary time can be at least as harmful as...