Colin Hoobler’s article for the Oregonian written on July 13, 2011 reminds us of why strength and resistance training is so important for so many reasons. Read here for yourself and learn about all of the benefits and reasons strength training is a must for everyone.
Health magazine contributing editor, Dr. Roshini Raj gives some simple tips for keeping your mind, body and soul youthful on the Today Show on NBC. To watch this great video and interview click here.
I bought my first Soloflex over 25 years ago after working out on a friends’s unit with the wood bench and the Shock Rings. I’ve loved it from the start. I gained muscle, lost inches and became stronger. I have never thought about buying a competitor’s brand in all of these years. Recently, I went back and read ALL of the blogs on the Soloflex website and became interested in Jerry Wilson’s (inventor of the Soloflex) assertion that using shock rings WITH weight plates on the end of the Soloflex lever arm gives the best and smoothest feedback to the body in his opinion.
I don’t have the Shock Rings yet but I have just begun to workout using Weight Plates with my Straps(a 50/50 percentage approximately) on many of the exercises and let me tell you, I am nearly as EXCITED as I was when I first got my Soloflex. I feel that I am working out on a NEW, IMPROVED Soloflex muscle machine. Here are the advantages from my perspective:
1. Using weight plates with the straps(or shock rings which I intend to buy as my straps wear out) add a new dimension of smoothness to the reps when doing the exercises. I don’t know why but I know that they DO! Jerry Wilson could probably explain it.
2. One reason many “free weight” believers including some fitness experts like free weights over machines is that it makes you focus on balance which is important especially as you get older. Adding Weight Plates to the Soloflex lever arm by using their free weight attachmant rods along with the straps/shock rings gives one the best of both worlds: You can still work out by yourself without a spotter but you still get the feel of balancing the weight plates.
Finally, how many products have you bought in your life that you can honestly say “almost” NEVER requires maintenance or repairs? For 25 years, the only thing I have had to do to my Soloflex is keep it clean and replace the straps as they wear out. It’s built so solid and well. So, here I am after all of this time, still enthused about a product I bought 25 years ago. THANKS SOLOFLEX.
Tennis Teacher(a.k.a. Richard Shirley)
An apple a day keeps the doctor away… as long as you eat the peel
By Fiona Macrae
Last updated at 10:22 AM on 8th June 2011
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Don’t ditch the peel: Apple peel contains ursolic acid that stops muscle wasting
Don’t ditch the peel: Apple peel contains ursolic acid that stops muscle wasting
An apple a day really could keep the doctor away – as long as you don’t throw away the peel.
The chemical behind the apple skin’s waxy shine is being credited with a host of health benefits from building muscle to keeping the lid on weight.
Ursolic acid also keeps cholesterol and blood sugar under control, meaning an apple a day could do wonders for all-round health.
Researcher Christopher Adams said: ‘Ursolic acid is an interesting natural compound. It’s part of a normal diet as a component of apple peels.
‘They always say that an apple a day keeps the doctor away…’
The importance of apple peel was discovered after Dr Adams, a U.S. expert in how hormones affect the body, set out to find a drug that stops muscles from wasting, keeping pensioners strong as they age and cutting their risk of hard-to-heal fractures.
He said: ‘Muscle wasting is a frequent companion of illness and ageing.
There is a lot of information about exercise and eating right but did you know that they are what is so important for your metabolism. Here is some interesting and important news about you and your metabolism
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of tilt whole-body vibration for improving dynamic balance in women with fibromyalgia (FM). Forty-one women (aged 41 to 65) were randomly assigned to either a vibration (n=21) or control (n=20) group. The vibration intervention consisted of a 30-minute session of instruction plus 3 sessions of whole-body vibration per week over a period of 12 weeks. Each vibration session consisted of 6 repetitions of a 45-60 second 12.5 Hz vibration. The posture of patient was lateral. Dynamic balance was assessed with a balance platform, the level of stability could be controlled. Based on intent-to-treat analysis, the dynamic balance of the vibration group improved by 36%, as compared to baseline, whereas that of the control group was unchanged.
The vibration program was useful and feasible for improving dynamic balance in women with FM. These novel results support further research aimed at the development of physical therapy programs that utilize controlled vibration
My Workout
By Nancy Dow – The Oregonian
Who: Jill LaTray, 43, Aloha; 5 feet 4 inches, 110 pounds
Workout: LaTray is a mother of five children ranging in age from 7 to 18. A car accident in mid-2008 left her with chronic pain in her shoulders, back and neck. She couldn’t stand, sit or walk for long, or lift much of anything. She coundn’t take walks or work in her garden. Her life became very limited, but her kids, she says, did an admirable job of taking up the slack.
She had tried various methods of obtaining relief when, last March, her chiropractor recommended the BStrong4Life program. It’s designed to increase the core strength, bone density and muscle tone, and strengthen the spine using (deep-breath) BioDensity Neuro-Musculoskeletal Stimulation and Measurement Technology. Total treatment time is 10-15 minutes a week. The program is approved for ages 12 and up.
LaTray begins with a two to five minute warm-up on platforms that vibrate quickly, causing muscles to contract. She moves to four isometric exercises. The core pull, chest press, vertical lift and leg press. Each exercise lasts five seconds.
Feedback: LaTray says, “Before starting the program I didn’t have any pain-free moments; now it’s the opposite. It’s just little bits of instead of little bits of no pain. It’s very exciting.” She says improvement was immediate; by the second week of treatment she was able to garden for two or three hours without much pain. She also could walk pain free for an hour three or four times a week. She feels stronger and notices muscle definition in her arms, legs and abdomen.
As the weather makes walking less feasible, she’ll sometimes walk in a mall, but she loves nature trails. She’d like to get back to biking and cross-country skiing but is taking it slowly and carefully. In the meantime, her daily routine is much easier.
Nutrition: She and her family eat mainly gluten- and dairy-free and low -sugar because of her children’s food sensitivities. They eat a lot of produce, and she makes a lot of soup. They avoid processed food in favor of beans, rice noodles, grass-fed free-range beef, chicken and turkey. She uses brown rice syrup and applesauce as sugar substitutes. Dessert might be a fruit crisp or crustless pumpkin pie. “You just have to more creative.” She makes her own flour blends and is grateful for the Bob’s Red Mill store. The family tends a garden and orders food monthly from a co-op. LaTray orders fish when eating out. She drinks tea and water, but no coffee. Her kids like to cook, and the whole experience has taught them how to fend for themselves.
Recently, First Lady, Michelle Obama, has begun a campaign that is so very important to all of our futures. Physical fitness. She is trying to spread the word about the state we are in when it comes to our kids and really ourselves. Physical fitness is a lifetime commitment. If we start out healthy than we are more likely to stay healthy. Soloflex has been saying this for the past 33 years.
Eating right and exercising is all it takes. This sounds easy but really it requires time and thought. It is so easy to sit down and eat fatty processed foods that that is what we have naturally fallen into. Exercise takes time and forces us to get up and try. If we do not do something we will be in serious trouble. The obesity levels in the United States are off the charts. Our kids and most of our adults are shortening their lives by as much as 20 years. Not to mention the burden on health care.
If you want to live a fun productive life exercise and balanced eating will have to be your number 1 and number 2 priorities. Lifting weights and well as cardio need to go hand in hand. Muscle strength is the key to so many other functions of your body. If kids want to play organized sports, jump, run, ski, skate board or do any activity muscles are required to do the work.
Take the time that is needed to stay healthy and share that with your kids. Michelle Obama notes that families need to get involved too. Go play with your kids. Get them off the sofa and get them moving. Get healthy together.
You can find this valuable information from Michelle Obama at Letsmove.org You can find our valuable information at soloflex.com. There is nothing new in all of this information just reminders of how very important it is and is for everyone. 
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| Al Sears, MD 11903 Southern Blvd., Ste. 208 Royal Palm Beach, FL 33411 |
January 25, 2011 |
Dear Jerry,
Would you use a drug that gives you the problem it’s supposed to prevent?
Well, that’s exactly what’s going on with the new osteoporosis drugs.
Fosomax, Boniva, Reclast, Actonel… these medications are supposed to help stop you from getting bone fractures as you get older. But we now have evidence that they cause bone breaks.
Researchers studied women taking these medications – called bisphosphonates – who experienced some sort of fracture. Over 65 percent had the same rare fracture in the same area of their thigh bones. And these were the women who had been on the drugs for the longest periods.1
Plus they’ve also found that if you’re on the drugs for a long time and you do get a bone break, you’ll heal very slowly. Sometimes it can take two years!
It’s another example of how modern medicine doesn’t learn from its mistakes. They refuse to take a whole-body approach to healing. Instead they opt to treat individual symptoms with drugs designed only for those symptoms.
And bone density drugs are a perfect example of this. I’ll tell you how they work in a moment, but first I want to tell you a little bit about how your body makes bone…
Your bones have cells called osteoclasts. Their job is to remove old bone tissue. This allows the bone to grow strong because other cells called osteoblasts then rebuild the bone.
With osteoporosis and other bone diseases, there is an imbalance … either your osteoblasts aren’t making new cells fast enough, or osteoclasts are removing too much tissue.
So drug companies came up with a way to stop osteoclasts from removing the old tissue, which also artificially increases your bone density: bisphosphonate drugs.
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