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Sleep – A Top Priority in Your Senior Fitness Program
In our Anti-aging category we discuss the impact of inflammation on the aging process, and how it seems to underlie many of the disease conditions that eventually take us down the final slope of life. Now there is word that even one bad night's sleep increases a major...
Top Strategies for Extending Health and Fitness into Old-age
Let's do a roundup of the top strategies for extending health and fitness into advanced age; it is a good thing to review what we know works on a periodic basis. Here are two numbered lists of the DON'Ts and DOs to help the average human to a long and healthy life. I...
Optimizing Senior Fitness
I've been pondering lately our strategies for optimizing fitness, and what that really entails. I think I have pretty well nailed the primary emphasis in our "6 Keys to Senior Fitness" categories. More and more though, I am troubled with the issue of measuring...
Dad Made it to 95 – Good Genes Realy Helps!
It has been a crazy two months, July and August. The big disrupter was my father's passing on the 18th of July, which led to a number of unexpected trips and activities to sort out the estate, grieve and properly celebrate his life, talents and accomplishments. Dudley...
Energy production, Thyroid Function and Iodine
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....
Progress with Training and More on the Lipitor/Thumb Pain Story
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...
Depression – A Serious Threat to Senior Fitness – Tied to Chronic Inflammation
Depression has been the topic of a series of newsletters crossing my desk, discussing 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...
Frank in a Contest and More on Muscle Damage by Statins
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....
The Case for Losing Faith in Cholesterol Drugs
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...
Gardening – Recreation, Meditation, Exercise
We have raised two wonderful children (well, more like my wife did most of that) with whom I am well pleased. Michael (Son-boy, as I have lovingly called him since that first season of the Waltons), is in the digital animation business, and he and his wife both work...