Posts Tagged ‘exercise

Active-aging expert offers “e-tips” for attaining and maintaining health in 2011 
(Vancouver-December 27, 2010) What’s the difference between the day before your birthday and the day after? “Practically speaking, nothing at all,” declares Colin Milner, CEO of the International Council on Active Aging (www.icaa.cc), a membership organization that brings together professionals in the independent and assisted [...]

Fitness club professionals know that simply having the latest equipment doesn’t guarantee new members or increased retention. To accomplish this, new equipment has to be used, and vibration exercise can easily be integrated into any program. For example, with baby boomers clubs are implementing programs that deal with arthritis, osteoporosis, golf conditioning, or even accelerated [...]

VANCOUVER, B.C. (January 3, 2011) – Older adults represent a wide range of abilities and needs, from the active golfer seeking a pain-free swing to the house-bound person who needs strength for the activities of daily living. Personal fitness trainers likewise have a wide range of skills and abilities. To help older adults select a [...]

Findings show that exercise helps your immune system fight simple infections like colds and flu. Exercise also helps ward off bigger problems like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, and cancer.
Oftentimes when we have a cold or the flu, we’re a little too tired or our energy level is so low that we have no [...]

American Council on Exercise (ACE) EXPANDS PARTNERSHIP WITH INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON ACTIVE AGING (icaa)  
Fitness Industry Leader and ICAA Co-Brand Curriculum for Older-Adult Communities 
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (December 6, 2010)—The American Council on Exercise (ACE), America’s leading authority on fitness and the largest nonprofit fitness certification, education and training organization in the world, today announced that [...]

Can Whole Body Vibration training take the place of a cardio-workout?  In principle you could exchange your cardio training for whole body vibration training, but only if you were to perform all of the exercises dynamically and have little or no rest in between.  Vibration training will attain many of the effects you are developing [...]

If you have arthritis you may not always feel like moving. But, regular, moderate physical activity is an essential part of an arthritis care plan. Among other things, it helps people with arthritis:

Increase flexibility
Reduce stiffness and inflammation
Strengthen muscles around joints
Achieve long-term pain relief

Exercise improves more than arthritis symptoms. It reduces

Exercising while breathing supplemental oxygen may greatly increase the amount of oxygen in the blood plasma.  This can be determined by testing the blood-oxygen levels in the arteries or veins. Quite often after a short time of exercising with oxygen, there is a dramatic “pinking” of an exerciser’s skin. If this can be seen, it [...]

A study that took place over a few years has just been completed had results that shocked doctors globally. Research showed that vibration exercise was 4 times as effective (4 times the weight-loss) as traditional exercise for weight-loss. Further, the vibration group kept the weight off 6 months after stopping using the vibration machine. The [...]

Millions of women experience involuntary loss of urine called urinary incontinence (UI).  In the general population aged 15 to 64 years old, 10–30% of women versus 1.5–5% of men are affected. At least 50% of nursing home residents are affected. Of that number, 70% are women.  Women experience UI twice as often as men. Pregnancy [...]


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