Need MOTIVATION?

It's Never too Late to Start;
We just learned of Ernestine Shepherd.

Ernestine is featured in this month’s Muscle & Performance magazine.


Ernestine started exercising at 56 years young and is currently 75 years of age. WOW!

5 Tips for January

It’s January.  It’s GREAT to see both so many familiar faces as well as new ones.  Hopefully more than just a few of you become much more than just faces to Jay and the rest of the staff. SO! – Don’t let the January effect wear off.

You need to stay motivated!  Long enough to make health & fitness part of your life – forever.  

OK – How do we do that?

IT'S NEVER TOO LATE

I was inspired by the article in The New York Times magazine, November 28, 2010; The Incredible Flying Nonagenarian by Bruce Grierson, to share the following:


My highlights of the article are as follows:
The cohort of people 85 and older — the fastest-growing segment of the population, as it happens — is increasingly being studied for longevity clues.
Some researchers now see aging itself as a kind of mitochondrial disease. Defective mitochondria appear as we get older, and these researchers say that they rob us of endurance, strength and function. There’s evidence that for young patients with mitochondrial disease, exercise is a potent tool, slowing the symptoms. If that’s true, then exercise could also potentially be a kind of elixir of youth, combating the ravages of aging far more than we thought. 
EXERCISE HAS BEEN shown to add between six and seven years to a life span (and improve the quality of life in countless ways).

Sarcopenia - loss of muscle mass, how to prevent it?

Sarcopenia is a significant yet overlooked problem in the older
population. Like the loss of bone mass commonly known
as osteoporosis, sarcopenia is the loss of muscle mass, which results in the loss of strength.

The prevention of Sarcopenia is as important as is the prevention of Osteoporosis to long-term health function, and independence;

In addition to a regular program of cardio-respiratory exercise such as walking, bicycling, swimming or dancing, and a brief stretching program, every adult should consistently perform some type of strength training at least two times every week.

Read the full article by "The International Longevity Center"