Like fine wine, aging done right is the key.
Look closely: who is that cranky person writing on the New York Times Op-Ed page that the commonly used PSA test for prostate cancer has led this country to a "profit-driven public health disaster." Turns out it’s Richard J. Ablin,…
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You’ll want to read No Regrets Part 1 and No Regrets Part 2 if you want the following to make any sense whatsoever.
It Begins
It would actually be about a week before I got a pair of blades for my boots so I couldn’t actually get on the ice. My first …
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Good health apparently extends more than your time on earth; it can keep your sex life purring deeper into older age. The British Medical Journal publishes research indicating that people who are in good health are almost twice as likely…
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – Breaking up your fitness routine is hard to do. But it's crucial for avoiding the bigger heartache of overuse injury, fitness experts say.
People tend to do the same thing over and over again, without varying it, without taking adequate rest, without building slowly, and they end up with an overuse [...]
Gentle readers learned recently that regular sex can cut man’s risk of an unfortunate heart event in half. Now comes word that women who drink moderate amounts of alcohol don’t gain as much weight in midlife as those who abstain….
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If you didn’t read No Regrets Part 1, I’d strongly suggest that you do or what follows won’t make any sense at all.
2004: Ice Camp
By the summer of 2004, my fitness was improving but I was still without a race circuit to attend. I wasn’t sure what to do. …
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Just some random stuff I’ve either discussed or thought about in the last few days.
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1. The deadlift is poorly suited to a high training frequency. I’ve never derived any benefit from training the lift more than once per week; and even that is pushing it in terms of recovery if I’m squatting heavy within that [...]
The good news is that researchers at the Osteoarthritis Center at the Henry Ford Hospital have found that electromagnetic pulses can significantly decrease pain and inflammation from osteoarthritis of the knee. The bad news is that the equipment used in…
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A few weeks ago in my overview post on sprint training, I promised an overview of some training periodization theory. There seemed to be a good deal of interest in the topic, so here we go. Lucky for those of you that couldn’t give a hoot about sprinting, the same theories apply to [...]
Buddhists may wonder why it took so long for scientists to figure this one out:The meaning of happiness is meaning. Researchers at the University of Arizona analyzed 20,000, 30-second samplings of daily conversations of 79 undergraduates and correlated the depth…
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