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Category Archives: Getting Fit
Battling Ropes are making waves!
When the public sees a training tool on TV being used by NFL players on HBO’s Hard Knocks or the contestants on NBC’s Biggest Loser, it is only a matter of time before everyone wants to know all about it. … Continue reading
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Top 5 Fitness Related Injuries and how to avoid them
Top 5 Fitness Related Injuries and how to avoid them By: Chris Volgraf, CSCS Here we are coming down the home stretch of the summer, with August now upon us. There is nothing worse than experiencing success with your fitness … Continue reading
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Stretching before exercise – Time is better spent elsewhere?
Static stretching before exercise is still showing no real benefit? Dynamic warm-ups and gradually increasing the intensity is the best way to prepare for a workout. Stretching after exercise or after a warm-up might be more effective. See our expert … Continue reading
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Overtraining Syndrome
We at the Princeton Longevity Center encourage and support efforts of individuals to begin and/or include regular physical activity into their lives. However, it is possible to be too active and become overtrained. Overtraining syndrome (OTS) is a condition characterized … Continue reading
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Workplace cited as source of increasing obesity
This article briefly summarized the accumulating research suggesting that exercise coupled with diet modification may not be enough to stem the tide of overweight and obesity currently being experienced in the US and worldwide. Sitting for extended periods of time … Continue reading
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Can’t move your muscles?
This article provides good advice for recovering from exercise induced muscle soreness. The advice is especially useful for those who exercise infrequently (“weekend warriors”). An intense bout of physical activity (hard workout at the gym, or game of basketball or … Continue reading
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Give the rower a chance
I can honestly count on one hand how many of our patients over the last 9 years have used the rowing machine for their cardio exercise. Think about it for a moment…when’s the last time you actually witnessed a person … Continue reading
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Interval Training Infographic
As the Senior Exercise Physiologist at the Princeton Longevity Center, it is my job to design exercise programs that take into consideration the patient’s often hectic family/work schedule. The number one excuse we hear is…”I don’t have enough time in … Continue reading
Simple exercises for office induced neck and shoulder pain.
By now we all know that long sedentary hours at the desk and long hours staring at your screen are bad for your heart and weight, but how bout your neck and shoulders? Try the exercises from this recent study to help combat … Continue reading
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Top 10 Exercise Myths
As silly as it sounds, many people still treat exercise myths as absolute facts when it comes to their fitness program. If only the public were more educated on exercise, getting results would not be such a challenge. More times … Continue reading
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