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1. A New Personal-Best Lift, and a New Supplement that Rocks!

By Frank Wilhelmi I hope you will check out the latest video clip of me playing in the gym. It represents a personal best at 66 years of age. I have never made 5 reps with 8 plates per side before. The last time I attempted 720 lb was about 8 years ago, and I made 4 reps and knew I would never get it up if I tried one more. This time I gave it a shot and made it. I had been working up to this att... read more

2. Resveratrol – A Promising Strategy for Health and Life Extension

By Frank Wilhelmi In study after study, Resveratrol, a health promoting compound found in grapes, is being shown to cause the same favorable spectrum of gene expression as that of chronic caloric restriction, the only proven strategy for significant life extension. The great part is that we don’t have to live at the brink of starvation to reap the benefits. All the studies to date used animal subjects... read more

3. I'll Have the Chicken, With traces of Arsenic Please

By Frank Wilhelmi I am always suspicious when I hear the results of health studies that condemn red meat. I can assure you that virtually all of these studies were done in the last 4-5 decades with feedlot-raised cattle, and not cattle brought in from grassy pastures. I know so many people that won’t touch a steak or a roast, because they are convinced by all the media chatter that red meat is intrinsically to... read more

4. More on Vitamin D3 and Some Websites to Bookmark

By Frank Wilhelmi I bought and downloaded a book titled "The Five Habits of Health Transformation" by Mike Adams who calls himself the Health Ranger. He runs a website called NewsTarget.com, a terrific site with a ton of information that, while not specifically aimed at seniors, is very relevant to the cause of senior fitness and enduring health. H... read more

5. Let’s talk about aging and attitude.

By Frank Wilhelmi How old do you think you are? I say you are as old as your thinking suggests you are. That is all a matter of attitude. I think you can gauge this pretty well by assessing how often the idea of trying something new comes into your head. Do you like new situations and new activities, or do you like a routine that you can count on? Do you like meeting new people? Do you read to find out what is... read more

6. Surrender the things of youth(?) - more injury and healing.

By Frank Wilhelmi Last week I was pontificating about trying new things and maintaining a youthful attitude and being as old as you think you are. You might know that I would have to eat my words as soon as they were out of my mouth (or on the page). Back on 10/14 I pulled a quadriceps muscle doing squats. This was the week after I had done the heaviest set of squats of my life (a contest-legal-depth set of th... read more

7. Progress with Training and More on the Lipitor/Thumb Pain Story

By Frank Wilhelmi 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 ... read more

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9. The Case for Losing Faith in Cholesterol Drugs

By Frank Wilhelmi I’m one of those who got blindsided by coronary artery disease. Not a hint that the process was going on until I started feeling a strange tightness in what I thought was my trachea when I walked uphill. The crazy thing was I never felt it during my workouts I could do squats until my legs failed and my lungs were screaming, but I never felt any chest pain. When I complained to my GP, who spe... read more

10. Frank in a Contest and More on Muscle Damage by Statins

By Frank Wilhelmi I’m putting together a lecture series for Synergy Performance Health & Fitness on the general topic of Senior Fitness. During this process, it occurred to me that I need to strongly demonstrate that what I teach in fact works to make me healthier and more fit. Yes, I seem to get surprised looks when I reveal my age, and I carry more muscle and less fat that my peers, and I am able to push a l... read more

11. Energy production, Thyroid Function and Iodine

By Frank Wilhelmi It has been a long time since I put up a new Frank’s Column. I pretty much gave the website a pass for the last two months while I got my act together around the old homestead – lots of stuff falling behind in upkeep and only so much time and energy to do it. Actually, that’s part of the issue – Energy or the lack thereof. The workouts in prep for the contest are leaving me pretty hammered, a... read more

12. Too Much Of A Good Thing Drug and Vitamin Overdose

By Mitamins Team There is an addiction, endemic in a certain age-group in this nation. It turns seemingly normal people into “pill-poppers” who cannot stop, and require increasing numbers to satisfy their habit. Their addiction: over-the-counter medications and vitamin nutritional supplements; the people: the elderly. Many people are used to taking non-prescription medications to retain their health and ... read more

13. A New Beginning in a New Year, and Some Words About Synergy

By Frank Wilhelmi It is the New Year! 2007! The possibilities are endless; one only needs to set goals and start taking action to accomplish them. As Tony Robbins says, “Personal power is the ability to take action”. The second part is to avoid “paralysis by analysis”. It doesn’t matter if you take the right action, because making a mistake only teaches you what to do next. It is far more important to create t... read more

14. An Invasive, Disturbing Thought Eliminated with EFT – A First Hand Experience

By Frank Wilhelmi In our Thinking and Attitude Category we created a sub-category for Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), a technique for rapid mental change that is easy to apply and very successful with just about everything someone might like to change about themselves. I was attracted by an article I read, went to the EFT website, read a number of very interesting articles and checked out some of the video... read more

15. Depression – A Serious Threat to Senior Fitness – Tied to Chronic Inflammation

By Frank Wilhelmi There has been a series of newsletters crossing my desk on the subject of depression, its causes and impact on health, but particularly its prevalence among seniors. The Blaylock Newsletter makes a tie-in between inflammation and depression in that an overactive immune system, kicking out high levels of cytokines and chemokines, reduces production of serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine, ... read more

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17. Immune Power and an Update on Shoulder Healing

By Frank Wilhelmi We added another category this week, focused on various elements of the immune system and foods and supplements that support and enhance its function. What good is it to look good, seem fit, and yet be sick all the time . The category will feature articles on the operation of the immune system, what can go wrong with it, what to eat to keep it healthy and what I hope will be solutions to... read more