The editors at RealJock.com – where I am a writer on health, fitness and related social topics – picked my article, Build a Budget Home Gym, to be among the site’s ten favorite fitness and health articles of 2009.
In development since January 2009, HairLoss.com launched last week with about a dozen of the articles I’ve written for this site. I am the health, fitness and nutrition section writer, with five articles each month on ways to proactively approach wellbeing; each article touches on the relationship between healthy living and alopecia, which includes male pattern baldness as well as other conditions of hair loss in men and women. My profile page is here, and the article currently drawing the most traffic is on yoga for men, a topic near and dear to my lower back.
Schedule – work, family and other demands – is the most common reason for failing to begin or falling out of a healthy fitness routine. Who has time for the gym when everything else in life vies for attention? This article details how to get more done with less time in a health club by cycling through different body parts. Read more here …
By Russ Klettke, ACE-certified fitness trainer and writer
A body of research has emerged that suggests a decline in health and fitness is more a function of lifestyle and social convention than biology. In fact, it’s possible to improve health – even build muscle and bone density, at any age – including up to and over the age of 90. Groundbreaking research under the direction Dr. Maria Fiatarone Singh, professor of Medicine and Sports Science at the University of Sydney (formerly of Tufts University) has found that elderly people, even the 90-plus, can develop muscle and increase bone density through weight-resistance training. Read more here ….
By Russ Klettke, ACE-certified fitness trainer and writer
If you’re like a majority of adult humans, you occasionally experience lower back pain. It may come from exercising, or just simply maneuvering something in a slightly unusual position – for example, lifting a heavy object out of a car trunk. When it happens you know immediately that it will affect you for days or weeks to come. Self management of lower back problems can save time and money – and bring faster relief. Read more here ….
By Russ Klettke, ACE-certified fitness trainer and writer
The time for testosterone has arrived. In other words, men are starting to see testosterone as their fountain of youth, the hormone that can increase muscle size, reduce body fat, increase bone density, promote libido – and bring all the psychological benefits that accompany these things. Fact is, exercise and diet can increase natural testosterone – without the use of steroids, HGH or testosterone patches. Read more here …
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