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What clients are saying - "My doctor said it would not be necessary to start taking drugs to preserve my bone density”

Number ten in a series about what clients have to say about their workouts.

I have had two women (aged 51 and 56) with osteopenia start strength training on the recommendation of their doctors. Both were told to strength train for six months and then have their bone density retested to see if there was an improvement. In both instances their bone density increased, and their doctors told them it would not be necessary to start a drug treatment.

Best places to raise kids

This blog is primarily concerned with health, fitness, diet, personal training, and human performance. Not unrelated to health is the environment where you live and the opportunities presented. From this Children’s Health article,The 100 Best (and Worst) Places to Raise a Family:

Chocolate Cake: The New Heroin

From the ScienceNOW article Chocolate Cake: The New Heroin?:

If you're constantly starting new diets, then breaking them, you may have more in common with a drug addict than you know. A new study suggests that yo-yo dieters experience the same stressful pangs of withdrawal when they go on a diet that addicts experience when they go cold turkey.

And this:

Getting pumped up may help your memory

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A new study shows that older people with stronger muscles are at a reduced risk of developing Alzheimer's’s disease compared to their weaker peers. The likely explanation for this is that there is something going on in the body that causes both muscle weakness and the loss of mental ability.

Austin area tops city performance index

This blog is primarily concerned with health, fitness, diet, personal training, and human performance. Not unrelated to health is the environment where you live and the opportunities presented.

The Importance of Strength Training

From this Reader’s Digest article, The Importance of Strength Training these bullets:

Strong muscles help you lose weight
Strong muscles are healthy for your heart

High intensity training - how long should each exercise be?

Take two people who can just barely lift 100 for one repetition. Now lighten the weight to 80 pounds and see how many reps each person gets. You might find that there will be a wide range of variability. One person might get eight reps, while the other will get 12. Why is that?

High intensity training - how often should one train?"

When the body is exposed to more of a stimulus that it is equipped to handle the body will makes a positive adaptation as a form of self-protection. That change will occur if the body has the capacity to change plus the needed time and resources to recover.

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