Senior Fitness.com - Anti-aging Strategies for Lifetime Health and Senior Fitness

Welcome to Senior Fitness.com! Your #1 source for lifetime fitness information; vital strategies for promoting senior health, life-long strength, vigor and independence. Learn how to slow and reverse Age-related Functional Decline. We bring you the latest strategies to optimize senior health and fitness into advanced age. The time to start is now; the place to start is here. Begin by reading How to best use this site: Take the tour. Then act on the knowledge; you can improve health and fitness at any age by using the strategies on these pages.

The Latest Word on Senior Fitness News Roundup - Recent health news worth talking about Researchers important markers of high risk of type 2 diabetes. Bypassing the insulin highway (Appearing in JBC online April 25) Deadly dose: Rensselaer heparin expert helps uncover source of lethal contamination Readily available treatment could help prevent heart disease in kidney patients Mammograms benefit women up to the age of 75 and 3-yearly screening intervals are best The 6 Critical Keys to Dynamic Senior Living Anti-aging - Slowing the processes involved in aging, and delaying their consequences. Lifetime Fitness: On Your Way to a Healthier You Anti Aging Therapy Anti-Aging Skin Care Treatment, Products and Tips Natural Anti-Aging Formula Against Bacteria And Viruses? Free Radicals: Destructive Scavengers and the Vital Role Antioxidants Play Exercise - The primary driver for reversing age-related functional decline. Aerobics - to maintain and recover your heart/lung/vascular fitness. Weight Training - to trigger your anabolic, or muscle-building process; muscle you need to look good and move well, be stronger than you look and dissolve fat 24 hours a day. Yoga, Pilates, Stretching & Balance - Building poise, posture, flexibility, strength, endurance, balance and grace, while connecting with the spirit within - speed and power aren't the whole story. Diets, Exercise, Health and Weight Loss It Can Actually Help You Lose Weight-The Benefits of Walking! How to Exercise Efficiently Core Flexibility Training Improves Golf Swing Power And Distance Anti-aging Exercise Nutrition - the Raw Material for Senior Health and Lifetime Fitness Natural Treatment for Acid Reflux How alcohol affects everything you do Probiotics, Why Your Health Depends On Them Prostatitis - Looking Beyong Antibiotics for a Cure Boost Immune Function Naturally Rest, Recovery and Relaxation - Time for the body to repair and strengthen itself. Gardening - Profoundly spiritual – rest, recovery and recreation for the soul, mind and body. A role of melanin-concentrating hormone producing neurons in the central regulation of paradox... About Theraputic Massage Stressed? Relax Right Now with 5 Super-Simple Stress-Busters Aging alters sleep and hormone levels sooner than expected 2000 Years of Stress Relief Supplements - Exercise right, eat correctly; is that all it takes? Not as seniors! Supplements make up for the losses of aging. Don't let Fatigue Govern Your Life! Does Breast Actives Pills Work? Menopausal Years - Using Herbs Simply & Safely Green Tea: the Antioxidant of Antioxidants Muscle Building Supplement - Which is the best? Thinking and Attitude - One person's junk is another's treasure; it's all a matter of thinking and attitude. Exercise can be an extremely pleasurable experience; you just have to get your brain to think so. Hypnosis for Change - Ancient and mysterious; a powerful modern tool for change. Do you wish to be somehow different, better than you were yesterday? Then make hypnosis a part of your strategy of improvement. Neuro Linguistic Programming - NLP - Strategies and tools for rapid mental and behavioral change that serve your goals. Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) - Rapid emotional and physical healing by melding acupressure meridian stimulation with linguistic suggestion The Seven Minute Difference: Small Steps to Big Changes Goal Setting Tips and Techniques Business and Life Success Secrets of a Remarkable Woman How To Release Emotions The Importance of Keeping One's Word Special Concerns That Hamper Senior Living Brain Health - Mental Health - Your brain is a terrible thing to lose - its health is priority-one! Elegant Aging: Growing Deeper, Stronger And Wiser In Your Years Blueberry and green tea containing supplement protects against stroke damage Manic Depression Can Result In Suicidal Attempts! Lack of basic nutrition creates generation of criminals, prison system society Learning Two Languages Slows Down Dementia Dental Health - Poor health of teeth and gums invite ills that may be killing you invisibly. Root Canal,Root Canal Treatment,Pain after Root Canal - Side Effects Preventing Disease by Improving your oral health Smile South Florida - Fort Lauderdale Dentist Encourages Screening for Periodontal Disease, Wh... Important Information Regarding Temperomandibular Joint (TMJ) Disorder How Serious Degenerative Diseases Caused by Tooth Infections and Root Canal Infection? Disease and Healing Protocols - Life Extension Foundation's comprehensive review of common diseases and their alternative protocols for healing and resolving the root causes. Metabolic Syndrome - The Twenty-First Century Epidemic Herbal Supplement For Asthma Anemia Treatment Keep it Simple and Safe Large Breasts And Back Pain Allergy Season: Friendly Bacteria and Other Natural Treatments Hormone Management - Hormones drive most bodily functions; learn how to manipulate your hormones to stimulate the fat-burning, anti-aging hormones while suppressing those that make you fat, sick, tired and old before your time. Hypothyroid diet - foods that help and foods to avoid A Healthy Life Style with Natural Supplements Top 10 Foods that Increase Testosterone Herbal HGH Chiropractor Tampa (Dr. Steve Edelson): Chiropractic & Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome Immune Power - Empower your Immune System; it stands between you and certain death Strengthen the Immune System Naturally Dealing with Allergies Using Vitamins Natural Remedy for Hay Fever How To Boost Immune System Function Vitamin D -The Antibiotic Vitamin? Joint Health - Nothing works to make you fit if your joints give out; you can keep them healthy if you feed them the right nutrients and prevent needless damage. Chronic head, facial or neck pain that won?t go away? Could it be TMJ? Back Pain At The Office Ergonomic Questionnaire Back Pain starts with Poor Posture! Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Pain in Your Hands and Wrists Personal Deportment and Hygiene - Staying fit to be around as we age. Hearing - A critical social sense, an important personal skill Incorporate Effective Toddler Discipline Without Spanking! First Agreement - Be Impeccable with your Word How to Stop Hearing Loss? For a Better Bad Breath Solution Bad Breath Basics - How To Identify And Cure It Sexual Fitness - A broad look at sexual fitness - for both women and men. (Nothing erotic, sordid or graphic - just technology and strategies for staying sexually alive and youthful.) Sexual Fitness for Aging Men - Strategies for delaying, minimizing and even reversing andropause. Sexual Fitness for Aging Women - Staying vibrant through and post-menopause; keeping the fire alive. Natural Sex - Increase Your Libido Naturally With Simple Diet Changes Achieving Sexual Abstinence in Today’s Society That Magical Female Erogenous Zone What To Do When Your Sex Drive Disappears Sexually transmitted diseases - The Price of Sexual Freedom Skin Health and Care - So much more than beauty! Aromatherapy Beauty Tips Best Skin Care Product Solution Information on Generic Cephalexin Antibiotic Anti Aging Skincare Products - Anti-Aging Information The Reasons And Information For Hair Loss Weight Loss - Weight Management - The real issue is fat loss and fat management; your health, longevity and self esteem are dependent on managing the fat content of your body - the mirror, not the scale, tells the truth! Fat 101 Why weight loss requires strength training, even for women and seniors, Part 1 About Appetite Suppressors to Help Reduce Weight How To Lose Weight With The Law Of Attraction The best tips to lose your weight and burn your fat!! Making it Happen - Taking Action to Change Your Life Fitness Courses - Age-specific training courses teach you how to stay at your peak for the long term. Will Brink - Solid wisdom on staying lean and strong as you age. Marc David - A course for beginners of any age. Why Everyone Over 50 Should be Training for the Senior Games The Medication-Supplement-Food Minefield 16 Tips to Looking + Feeling Great Perfects Abs - Three Ab Routines To Show Your Six Pack Your Natural Medicine Box for Depression Treatment Inspirational Gallery - A Photo and Video Gallery of Seniors in Great Shape and Living Very Well Frank Wilhelmi - Simi Valley CA: Striving to improve with age, with fairly consistent success. You’re Held Up by the Word of His Power Sport-Specific Fitness - If sport comes first...you have to stay fit to stay in the game! Golf - A Passion for millions - a great blending of sun, sport and things social. Tennis - A glamorous sport, very gratifying when you win, very taxing on the aging body - train right to stay in the game. "Anabolic Steroids in Sports & Exercise" Asthmatics ? don't suffer at altitude! Swimming in shark infested waters Sea Kayaking Apparel: Stay Comfortable and Safe Some Benefits of Laughter Trainers Registry - Find Fitness Trainers in your area who specialize in training Seniors. Grapevine Personal Fitness Trainer NJ Fitness Expert Reveals 10 Secrets to Portion Control Getting Your Questions Answered Keller Personal Fitness and Nutritional Trainer Las Colinas Fitness Trainer

Frank's Column Progress with Training and More on the Lipitor/Thumb Pain Story (04/20/2008) NEW! See the video illustrating form, intensity, start and finish for a power set of barbell shrugs. (Video 1) and incline dumbell press. (Video 2) Heavy Set of Pseudosquats. (Video 3) A set of medium intensity Lat Pulls. (Video 4) A set of medium intensity, narrow-grip Cable Rows. (Video 5) Frank Playing in the Gym - A personal best at 66; 720lb on the incline leg press (Video 6) In my contest preparation, I'm still working out three days a week. But, Trainer Nick has me doing only two routines: chest, back and abs one day, and legs and arms the following workout day (usually M-W-F). This increases the frequency for any muscle group, but I'm still able to recover - not easy, but I'm preparing for a contest and pushing more than I normally would. Nick pushes me through three exercises per part, three sets per exercise, with 20 to 15 reps per set. So on chest & back day, I'm doing rapid fire sets of 20 regular crunches followed by 20 reps of ball crunches (lying, knees pulled up to elbows), count of 10 rest, two more sets just like that with 10 count rest, then the plank position (bridge on elbows and toes) for 30 seconds, three sets, while he loads my back. And then throw in two sets of lying side leg raises to work the obliques. Then he alternates chest & back: For example, incline dumbell press opposite cable rows, three sets each, 20 rep sets with whatever rest I get going from one apparatus to the next. Then machine flys opposed to lat pulls, three sets each for 20 or so reps, followed by decline bench opposed by T-Bar rows for the same story. Usually he is helping me get the last few reps on any set to take the muscles into deep fatigue. Leg/arm day is structured similarly except he keeps me on legs for 9 sets (3 exercises - one multi-joint like squats, lunges or leg press, then thigh extension, then hamstring curls - for three sets each, usually 20 reps or as many as I can get. Then goes to arms for three exercise each - triceps opposed to biceps, one then the other (triceps rest while the bi's are working, again three sets each, 20 to 15 reps. We jam this into 45 minutes, and it is a serious cardiovascular workout - absolutely no need for a treadmill. I'm eating 5-6 times a day, a pre-workout drink for endurance and strength, followed by post workout drink to jam in the protein and carbs, Taking coconut oil and fish oil by the tablespoon several times a day with a protein drink before bed and I still have a hard time making the scales move up. I have about another month to try to pack on the pounds, and then I have to cut calories down to 2500 and drop the body fat lower. But right now I'm probably as lean as I have been in 40 years. It is a great testimony to the human body that I can still grow significant muscle in a few months at the age of 68, but without the supplements to modify the body's testosterone levels, this wouldn't happen. 'T' is the magic muscle-growing, fat-burning hormone that you have to elevate to stay lean while building muscle and gaining strength. One effect of this workout regime is that my sore spots have not been improving in spite of frequent trips to the chiropractor for deep muscle massage, adjustments, laser therapy and ultrasound. Reflecting back on my conviction that all this muscle pain was caused by the long-term use of Lipitor, there seemed to be some noticeable improvement when I stopped its use, but now it seems about the same as before. I really wonder if it is not just a matter of serious over-use. My Chiropractor says that I’m just a bundle of myofacial adhesions and over-stressed tendons and it is going to take plenty of deep muscle work to undo the damage. Call me stupid for being in denial (wife Jo says something close to that) but at least I am MOTIVATED. The contest on July 19th is coming and I will worry about complete healing after that. Good Living - Frank (471957) Past "Frank's Column" Articles Depression – A Serious Threat to Senior Fitness – Tied to Chronic Inflammation (04/06/2008) Frank in a Contest and More on Muscle Damage by Statins (02/22/2008) The Case for Losing Faith in Cholesterol Drugs (02/09/2008) Gardening - Recreation, Meditation, Exercise (01/13/2008) The power of bio-identical hormones in medicine (01/02/2008) Surrender the things of youth(?) - more injury and healing. (11/25/2007) Let’s talk about aging and attitude. (11/18/2007) More changes coming to the SeniorFitness website (11/10/2007) An Invasive, Disturbing Thought Eliminated with EFT – A First Hand Experience (10/17/2007) Brain Health - Mental Health: a new Category added to the site (09/09/2007) Critcal Thinking and Risk Taking (08/29/2007) An ISSA Seminar at Total Woman Gym and Day Spa (08/12/2007) Another Bodybuilding Supplement of Great Interest (07/01/2007) Want to See Real Reverse Aging? Try this Combination of Supplements. (05/28/2007) I'll Have the Chicken, With traces of Arsenic Please (04/29/2007) More on Vitamin D3 and Some Websites to Bookmark (04/18/2007) Too Much Of A Good Thing Drug and Vitamin Overdose (04/18/2007) Resveratrol – A Promising Strategy for Health and Life Extension (03/31/2007) Vitamin K2 - Crtitical Factor in Heart Disease and Osteoporosis (03/11/2007) The Very Best Ways to Start Changing Your Health for the Better (02/11/2007) A New Beginning in a New Year, and Some Words About Synergy (01/17/2007) Year-end Lapses of Fitness and the Promise of a New Year (12/15/2006) Winter Approaches and Flu Season is Bearing Down Upon Us; Time to Think of Boosting Immune Function. (11/28/2006) More on the ability to heal from surgeries and a very informative site I ran across (11/05/2006) Shoulder Surgery Outcome and A Three Day/Week Workout Plan (10/15/2006) Frank’s Arthroscopic Surgery of 9/5/06 and breasts for men? (09/07/2006) Update on Digestion, Heartburn, Belching, Reflux and the Impact of Aging on Such. (08/16/2006) New Features on the Senior Fitness.com Site and Some Exciting News on Heavy Metal Chelation (07/17/2006) A New Personal-Best Lift, and a New Supplement that Rocks! (06/19/2006) Life Extension Foundation - Your Top Resourse In Health Information (04/23/2006) Women, Fitness and Weight Training (03/15/2006) Wobenzyme to the Rescue? (02/26/2006) More Joint Healing Mysteries (02/15/2006) Joint Health and Joint Healing (02/05/2006) Immune Power and an Update on Shoulder Healing (01/29/2006) An Aging Mechanism you can minimize easily - Glycation! (01/15/2006) Start Again; Goals, Resolutions - Focus on Fitness (01/02/2006) More on Injury and Healing (mine, unfortunately). (12/18/2005) Making Incremental Progress in Becoming Stronger (11/27/2005) Injuries and Healing for Seniors (11/20/2005) Hormones, hormone levels and hormone balance - a very complex topic that impacts how well we age in very big ways. (11/08/2005) Strength Training and Physical capability (10/31/2005) My Rant on Hydrogenation (10/24/2005) Frank's Column (10/10/2005)

Topic of the Day: arthritis

Arthritis (from Greek arthro-, joint + -itis, inflammation; plural arthritides) is a group of conditions involving damage to the joints of the body. Arthritis is the leading cause of disability in people older than fifty-five years.

There are different forms of arthritis; each has a different cause. The most common form of arthritis, osteoarthritis (degenerative joint disease) is a result of trauma to the joint, infection of the joint, or age. Emerging evidence suggests that abnormal anatomy might contribute to the early development of osteoarthritis. Other arthritis forms are rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis, autoimmune diseases in which the body attacks itself. Septic arthritis is caused by joint infection. Gouty arthritis is caused by deposition of uric acid crystals in the joint, causing inflammation. There is also an uncommon form of gout caused by the formation of rhomboid crystals of calcium pyrophosphate. This gout is known as pseudogout.

All arthritides feature pain. Pain patterns may differ depending on the arthritides and the location. Rheumatoid arthritis is generally worse in the morning and associated with stiffness; in the early stages, patients often have no symptoms after a morning shower. In the aged and children, pain might not be the main feature; the aged patient simply moves less, the infantile patient refuses to use the affected limb.

Elements of the history of the disorder guide diagnosis. Important features are speed and time of onset, pattern of joint involvement, symmetry of symptoms, early morning stiffness, tenderness, gelling or locking with inactivity, aggravating and relieving factors, and other systemic symptoms. Physical examination may confirm the diagnosis, or may indicate systemic disease. Radiographs are often used to follow progression or assess severity in a more quantitative manner.