The funny thing about aging is that exercise becomes more important than ever, but you also have more body parts telling you to stop the madness right this instant. Unfortunately, it’s entirely possible that you might actually exacerbate the risk of developing serious illness by giving up cardio exercise altogether.

A friend’s father is one such example. This man has type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol levels. Smoking and a generally stressful work life didn’t improve the conditions, although he faithfully took his medication. His sole exertion was weekly walks in the park. When

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The study appears online this week in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. The work has implications for improving muscle performance in disease states including metabolic disorders, obesity, and aging.

“We have shown that mice lacking the gene run six times longer than control mice and that the fatigable muscles of the mouse — the fast muscle in the front of the leg — have been reprogrammed and are now fatigue-resistant,” explains senior author Tejvir S. Khurana, MD, PhD, professor of Physiology and member of the Pennsylvania Muscle Institute. “This has wide ramifications for various aspects of muscle biology ranging from athletics to treating muscle and metabolic diseases.”

The gene codes for a protein called Interleukin-15 receptor-alpha (IL-15R-alpha), which acts alone or in conjunction with the IL-15 protein.

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Modern man is constantly prodded to do more, and do it better than everyone else. As such, it’s no surprise that most people throw themselves into a strength-training regimen, only to have to stop soon after to recuperate from injury.

Images of relaxed-looking athletes bench-pressing 150 lbs are nothing new, and not a problem, as long as you remember that they’re selling an idealized vision of what strength training entails (and probably supplements). The reality is, you will strain at that bar bell in the early days of your strength training routine, but there’s no need to get a hernia to learn how to do it correctly.

First, be realistic; follow a routine suited to your strength level. This m

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According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, children should be active at least 60 minutes a day TAKE CARE  
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – ALL SHORES – Children are less physically fit than they were a generation ago. That’s not a good thing because most inactive children weigh more and have higher blood pressure when compared to their active counterparts. Most importantly, inactive children are more likely to become inactive adults.

The current recommendation for children is to have at least 60 minutes of physical activity on most, preferably all, days of the week. Ac Get more…

In 2009, I was battling an Achilles issue, while also working on the building of our new store. My weight had been creeping up, but the combination of my injury causing me to be limited to running about 10 to 15 miles per week, a crazy schedule and the stress that went with it, and bad diet, put me into the worst shape of my life.

After we moved Fleet Feet Sports in January of 2010, I had some of my time back and started wondering how I was going to get back in shape. P90X was being advertised everywhere. You couldn’t listen to radio or watch TV and not see it.

Finally, after avoiding it for more than a year, I got on my scale and saw that I was up to 192 pounds, the heaviest I have ever been. Get more…