Thursday, January 9, 2014
Don't sabotage your fitness ambitions - Cincinnati.com
The initial jolt of motivation that pushes us to begin a journey of fitness is exciting, positive, and uplifting. When we start, we’re feeling on top of the world, inspired, and invincible because we haven’t yet encountered obstacles, setbacks, or challenges that attempt to off-road our plans to build new habits, a new lifestyle, or a new body.
What I don’t think we always take into account when we start is how mental this journey really is – even more so than physical. Our minds will always give up before our bodies do. In order to understand this, we need to understand what’s going on in our mind and how it works.
There are two minds within us: The conscious mind and the subconscious mind. The conscious mind is fully developed around puberty and is active when you are active. It’s the one we’re using immediately upon opening our eyes in the morning. It’s the one taking over to solve problems, decide what we’re wearing every day, help make our breakfast in the morning, and obsess over all the stuff we have to get done daily.
The subconscious mind, however, is fully functional from the moment we’re born and never sleeps. It doesn’t filter information, it just absorbs it. It is responsible for emotions, our instincts, and non-analytical reactions to things. It gathers all information it is fed from the moment we’re an infant, and it doesn’t care whether it’s true or not or whether it’s what we personally believe or not.
This fed information often becomes our beliefs. A lot of information we’ve gathered as children is fed to us before our conscious mind has had a fair opportunity to play. Because of this, our conscious mind sometimes has a really hard time breaking the barriers of our subconscious mind’s long-held information.
So how does this relate to a journey in fitness? If you’re struggling to develop a lifestyle in fitness because you end up quitting upon the first sign of discomfort related to exercise, food, criticism from others, self-doubt, or other fears seeping in, then it’s time to take a look at what could be going on in your subconscious mind and what’s buried in there.
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3. Write down the truth. Determine your true beliefs and affirmations – the ones you want to replace the fearful or negative ones with.
4. Brainstorm all the possible circumstances or scenarios you might encounter that may trigger these negative thoughts and fears.
5. Create a positive plan of action for when these circumstances present themselves, so you’ve got a solid set-in-stone plan for moving in the direction of your goals. This will help you physically learn to break through those negative fears and beliefs through action.
Repeat these steps as often as you need to and review them on a weekly basis. I even suggest taking it a step further by getting yourself a journal and daily writing out your top 10 goals for the week followed by your top 10 affirmations every morning. This will boost your ability to replace your self-limiting beliefs and start your day out on a positive note leading to healthier choices throughout the day – and ultimately, to the achievement of your goals and a continuously healthy lifestyle.
Tanya Thurnau’s website is The Sneaker Junkie, www.thesneakerjunkie.com[1]
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Reset Your Fitness with Rihanna and Halle Berry's Body Guru - EBONY.com
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Recently, I had the distinct honor of sitting down with the mean behind the famous bodies of everyone from Rihanna to Halle to Kanye and beyond, well-known celebrity trainer and author Harley Pasternak to discuss his latest book in stores now, The Body Reset Diet [1] , and the tips and techniques he uses to help his clients.
“The Body Reset Diet focuses on a 15-day complete reset of your body, your appetite, your palette, your digestion, and it’s really easy,” says Pasternak. “It breaks it down to 60-second meal preparations, gives you really easy exercises that you don’t need to go to the gym for, and it’s really what I do to prepare someone for a movie role or a music video.”
Pasternak is a believer in circuit training – short, intense bursts of activity that builds muscle and help to tone bodies – combined with simply being more active throughout the day.
“What’s really exciting, is the new survey that Vitamin Water did, looking at boredom in their workouts. For a lot of my clients, I’ve got to keep them interested in their workouts and excited about them.
“The survey found that over 50% of people surveyed are bored with their workouts. Most of those people get bored at the 30 minute mark during their workout, and even more people found the treadmill is the most boring part of the workout. So, when I’m working with my celebrity clients, they don’t have a lot of time to work out. They usually have less than 30 minutes so getting people to workout intensely and intelligently for shorter periods of time is more effective.”
What other fitness tip does he give his clients? Fitness tracking tools!
“Trying to be active throughout the day so that, when they get to the gym, they really don’t need to spend time doing cardio. They can just focus on resistance training..” When it comes to a fitness-tracking tool, Pasternak sets the goal moderately high. “I tell them, ‘Try and take 10,000 steps every day.’”
When it comes to building a training circuit, Pasternak likes to focus on groups of body parts at a time, and he keeps the workout as fast-paced as possible. “We keep them moving so that we don’t waste any time.”
Pasternak graciously let EBONY.com inside of the training routine he uses for his clients to tone and tighten the booty area:
“This week we’re focusing on the muscles of the back of the body, so we do an exercise called the 'Superman[2] ,' to pull back the mid-section of the body. We do an exercise called the 'pike plank[3] ,' which is great for the front of the abs. We’ll do a 'skater lunge[4] ,' for the thighs and the butt, and we’ll do a back row[5] , to pull the posture and the back of the upper body.”
As nutrition is a huge part of Reset, he makes it very plain. “People will learn to love their blender!” To help the people who make meal skipping a habit, he encourages smoothies, soups and dips that are easy to make with little mess to make people get back in the habit of eating not only regularly, but healthily, too. “People will have no excuse for skipping breakfast in the morning, or unhealthy meal or snack when, within 60 seconds, they can have a really simple, easy, quick smoothie, soup or dip made in a blender.”
All in all, Pasternak aims to keep his advice simple. “I just really want to drive home the message of getting people moving more throughout the day, and making exercise and fitness a little more interesting and fun.”
I don’t think anyone will object to that!
Erika Nicole Kendall is the writer behind the award-winning blog, A Black Girl’s Guide to Weight Loss , where she chronicles her journey of going from 330lb couch potato to certified personal trainer, nutritionist, and all-around fitness dynamo. Ask her your health and fitness-related questions on twitter at @bgg2wl.[6]
References
- ^ The Body Reset Diet (www.amazon.com)
- ^ Superman (www.youtube.com)
- ^ pike plank (www.youtube.com)
- ^ skater lunge (www.youtube.com)
- ^ back row (www.youtube.com)
- ^ A Black Girl’s Guide to Weight Loss (blackgirlsguidetoweightloss.com)
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
New rec facility offers a glimpse of the future of fitness - UC Berkeley
Football’s not the only way to work up a sweat at California Memorial Stadium any longer. A new workout facility at the stadium has been designed to accommodate anyone who wants to get fit.
Located on the west side of the stadium, near Gate 2, the Stadium Fitness Center takes up 5,000 square feet of space rented from Cal Athletics by Cal Recreational Sports. It features state-of-the-art cardio machines, strength-building machines and free weights and is open to all Rec Sports members. (Anyone can buy a membership, with prices starting at $10 a semester for students.)
Director of Fitness and Wellness Operations Devin Wicks says the Stadium Fitness Center’s cutting-edge equipment represents a new approach to healthy lifestyles. (Steve Hockensmith photo)
Rec Sports runs a number of recreational centers and athletic facilities on or near campus, including the 100,000-square-foot Recreational Sports Facility on Bancroft Avenue. According to Devin Wicks, director of fitness and wellness operations for UC Berkeley, between 4,000 and 5,000 members use those facilities each day. Yet up until now, Rec Sports didn’t have a major presence on the east side of campus.
“This gave us a really good opportunity to reach a big population and make getting active and living a healthier lifestyle a little easier,” Wicks says. “If you want people to participate you have to remove as many barriers as possible, and how far you have to walk is a major barrier.”
According to Wicks, planning for the Stadium Fitness Center focused on three priorities: inclusivity, innovative technology and “functional training” (that is, exercise that prepares people for the physical challenges of everyday life). The inclusivity is reflected in a number of the center’s features, such as bathrooms and locker rooms that aren’t reserved for a specific gender only and workout equipment that can be adjusted to accommodate people in wheelchairs.
“The question we kept asking ourselves was, ‘How do we make all this accessible to everyone?’” Wicks says, adding that planners wanted to avoid pushing users with disabilities into a special section of the facility. ” We wanted everyone to be included in the overall space.”
The fitness center’s Kinesis Wall (which allows people to work out via a system of pulleys and handgrips) and Synrgy360 (a work-out station Wicks likens to “an adult jungle gym”) are not only easily modifiable for exercisers in wheelchairs, but also focus on the functional training Rec Sports wanted to emphasize.
“It’s all about functional fitness, not training your biceps because you want them to get big,” Wicks says. “It’s training your body for life.”
Of course, it’s not just people who have to be ready for everyday wear and tear. Workout equipment gets plenty, too – especially Rec Sports equipment.
“A lot of the manufacturers come to us and say, ‘Oh, our stuff is the toughest and strongest,’” Wicks says. “And I say, ‘Give it to us for two years. We’ll see how tough it is.’ We really put equipment through its paces.”
That’s sure to be true for the equipment in the Stadium Fitness Center, but now there’s a difference. The cardio equipment in the new fitness center is networked, giving staff access to real-time diagnostics and flagging potential problems.
“I can go on my computer and see how each piece is doing, and if something looks troubling I can send someone up to repair it before it breaks down,” Wicks says. “With as many members as we see, having one piece of equipment down is really tough. It impacts everybody. So being able to avoid that is great.”
Soon screens like these will feature streaming movies and TV in addition to personalized workout stats.
And the networking hasn’t just made Wicks’s job easier. It’s made tracking personalized workout stats a breeze, as well. Members are able to log onto cardio machines that remember their past workouts, apply their preferences, count the number of calories they’ve burned and even – in a change coming Jan. 17 – allow them to watch streaming movies and TV shows.
According to Wicks, innovations like that are sure to make the already-popular new fitness center even more of a hit. In the evenings, he says, the Stadium Fitness Center was close to hitting its maximum capacity – 60 members at a time – consistently throughout finals, when Rec Sports numbers usually drop off. By March, he estimates, there will be lines to get in during peak hours.
Mike Weinberger, director of Rec Sports, has taken note of the new fitness center’s fast start and says its innovations will eventually spread across campus.
“This is the approach we’d like to take with all of our facilities, and any new facilities that we build in the future,” he says.
“My sense is that this is a lab for us as we start looking ahead,” Wicks adds. “We can test things out here and then say, ‘O.K., this is working. Let’s take it down to the Rec Sports Facility.’ So this is kind of the future. It’s what Rec Sports hopefully will be.”
Most young teens don't meet US fitness recommendations - Los Angeles Daily News
Young teens aren’t exactly embracing the government’s Let’s Move mantra, the latest fitness data suggest.
Only 1 in 4 U.S. kids aged 12 to 15 meet the recommendations — an hour or more of moderate to vigorous activity every day.
The results are based on about 800 kids who self-reported their activity levels and had physical exams as part of the 2012 National Youth Fitness Survey.
Government researchers won’t call the results disappointing, but lead author Tala Fakhouri of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, “There’s always room for improvement.”
The CDC released partial results Wednesday from the fitness survey, which involved kids aged 3 to 15. Other results from the same survey are pending and include fitness data based on more objective measures including treadmill tests.
Fakhouri said the nationally representative results provide useful information for initiatives that aim to increase kids’ fitness, including the Let’s Move anti-obesity campaign launched by first lady Michelle Obama in 2010.
Kids in the survey reported on which physical activities they did most frequently outside of school gym class — basketball for boys and running for girls.
While few met guidelines established in 2008 for activity that raises the heart rate and makes you breathe harder, most said they did at least an hour of exercise at that level during the previous week. Overall, about 25 percent said they got an hour of that kind of exercise every day
Obese kids were less active than normal-weight girls and boys. Overweight girls were slightly less active than normal-weight girls, but levels were similar among overweight and normal-weight boys.
“It’s definitely very concerning to see that our kids are engaging in such a limited amount of physical activity each day when we are still battling” an obesity epidemic, said Dr. Stephen Pont, an Austin, Texas, pediatrician and chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ section on obesity.
Data suggest obesity may have decreased slightly among some kids but the overall rate for children aged 2 to 19 is 17 percent, or about 12.5 million obese kids.
Recent national data on kids’ fitness levels is limited. A 2009-10 CDC survey involving kids ages 6 to 11 found about 70 percent met the physical activity guidelines, although levels dropped off among older kids in that age group. The results came from parents, who may be inclined to over-report how active their kids are because of “social desirability,” the researchers said.
Fitness in Teen Years May Guard Against Heart Trouble Later - Philly.com
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 8, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- People who are aerobically fit as teenagers are less likely to have a heart attack in middle age, a study of nearly 750,000 Swedish men suggests.
Every 15 percent increase in aerobic fitness in your teen years is associated with an 18 percent reduced risk of heart attack three decades later, researchers report in the Jan. 8 online edition of the European Heart Journal.
The results also suggest that teens and young adults who undergo regular cardiovascular training have a 35 percent reduced risk of heart attack later in life.
Aerobic fitness as a teen even appears to help people who become obese later in life, said research leader Peter Nordstrom, of Umea University in Sweden.
"It should be noted that aerobic fitness decreased the risk of heart attack significantly within also overweight and obese men," Nordstrom said. Obese men who had the highest aerobic fitness as teens enjoyed a 60 percent lower risk of heart attack compared with obese men who had the least fitness.
However, obese men with high aerobic fitness did have a higher risk of heart attack than lean men with little aerobic fitness. While the study found an association between aerobic fitness and chances of heart trouble, it did not establish a cause-and-effect relationship.
The findings emphasize the need for improved physical fitness among young people, said Dr. Stephen Daniels, chairman of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and a spokesman for the American Heart Association.
"Even though the diseases we see are diseases of older adults, it's increasingly clear that where people are in childhood and adolescence is critically important," Daniels said. "We probably aren't doing enough to help our young population become fit and avoid obesity."
For the study, the researchers analyzed medical data from 743,498 men drafted into the Swedish army at age 18 between 1969 and 1984.
As a part of induction, all of the draftees took part in a physical examination that included a test of their aerobic fitness. They all had to ride on an exercise bicycle until they were too exhausted to continue.
National health registers provided information on heart attacks the men suffered later in life. Doctors used this medical data to track men for an average 34 years following their military physical exam.
The researchers found that men with the lowest aerobic fitness had a more than twofold increased risk of later heart attack compared with men who were most fit.
The study authors also looked into the joint effect of obesity and fitness, and found that across all weight groups the risk of a later heart attack increased significantly when comparing the least fit with the most fit.
However, the fittest obese men ran a 71 percent increased risk of heart attack when compared to men who were unfit but lean. They also had more than four times the heart attack risk faced by the fittest lean men.
"This study helps to address the 'fitness versus fatness' question by indicating that both are important, but they are independently important," Daniels said. "Good fitness can't completely counterbalance the health effects of excess weight. Obviously, the best is to be normal weight and fit, which is what we should be aiming at for the majority of our population."
Muscle strength, which also was tested during induction, did not appear to provide the same heart health benefits as aerobic fitness.
Genetics likely plays a large part in the aerobic fitness of teens and, by extension, their protection against heart attack, Nordstrom said. Another study that focused on twins within this same set of patients found that 78 percent of the variation in their aerobic fitness could be chalked up to genetics.
But it could also be that men who are in good shape in their teens have adopted the sort of lifestyle that will keep them healthy later in life, said Dr. Mark Urman, a member of the American College of Cardiology's Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Committee.
"If you're fit as a teenager, you're going to be more likely to stay in shape over the course of your life," Urman said. "The better shape you're in, the less apt you are to have cardiovascular problems."
More information
For more information on children and physical fitness, visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention[1] .
SOURCES: Peter Nordstrom, Umea University, Umea, Sweden; Stephen Daniels, M.D., chairman, pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, and spokesman, American Heart Association; Mark Urman, M.D., member, American College of Cardiology's Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Committee; Jan. 8, 2014, European Heart Journal, online
Copyright © 2014 HealthDay[2] . All rights reserved.
References
- ^ U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (www.cdc.gov)
- ^ HealthDay (www.healthday.com)
New fitness studio offers high intensity workout - Evanston Review
David Lanz always knew that someday he would own a gym. Someday is turning out to be next month, when Lanz’s group interval fitness studio, Orangetheory Fitness will open on Central Street in Evanston.
“This is a one-hour results oriented workout, half cardio, half resistance training, and led by an instructor, so it’s group personal training,” said Lanz, a University of Delaware graduate who has owned many small businesses throughout his professional life.
Lanz found out about Orangetheory Fitness – a Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.-based franchise with 61 locations in the U.S. and 206 in development – about a year ago while doing online research to open up his own health club. He liked the concept so much that he decided to try a class at the Naperville location.
“The energy that was in the room, the results people were talking about, and the science behind it were unbelievable, and I immediately knew I wanted to be involved,” said Lanz, who is a certified personal trainer through the National Academy of sports Medicine.
Orangetheory Fitness uses interval based training that includes water rowing, cycling, elliptical training, walking and jogging or running, along with weight training blocks using free weights, medicine balls and bands.
Every participant wears a heart rate monitor, and the goal is to increase the heart rate to 85 percent or higher of the maximum heart rate (known as the orange zone) for 12-20 minutes of a one hour session.
“When you get into the orange zone, you experience excess post-oxygen consumption, which is an effect that causes your body to continue burning oxygen for 36 hours afterwards,” said Lanz. “The result of that is additional fat loss.”
Lanz said the workout is for many different types of people, from conditioned athletes who want to maintain their performance to men and women who want to lose weight.
Dana Leonard is the head coach of the girls basketball team at North Shore Country Day School in Winnetka, as well as a certified personal trainer and group fitness instructor. Leonard will be teaching classes as Orangetheory Fitness.
“You’re going to get a cardio workout, plus strength and conditioning training,” said Leonard, who was a hall of fame basketball player for Glenbrook South, and who also played for Northwestern. “The science is there. You’re getting high intensity exercise and that yo-yo effect, so that the rest of the day you’ll be in a fat burning zone.”
Lanz, who lost a significant amount of weight 15 years ago and kept it off said Orangetheory Fitness isn’t just a business for him, and that his passion is in “paying it forward.”
“Fitness has to be part of my life for the rest of my life,” he said. “I want to be able to share this with people. I know how hard it is to lose weight and maintain a level of fitness, and this is a workout that will change people’s lives. It’s results oriented and it will work.”
Orangetheory Fitness offers monthly memberships or packages of sessions, which are available at the studio’s sales office located two doors down from where the facility will be.
“You will walk out of there feeling like, ‘Wow,’” said Leonard. “This is the best workout you can get, and if you are committed to three or four times a week, you are going to see results very quickly.”
Only 1 in 4 teens meets US fitness guidelines - New York Post
CHICAGO — Young teens aren’t exactly embracing the government’s Let’s Move mantra, the latest fitness data suggest.
Only 1 in 4 U.S. kids aged 12 to 15 meet the recommendations — an hour or more of moderate to vigorous activity every day.
The results are based on about 800 kids who self-reported their activity levels and had physical exams as part of the 2012 National Youth Fitness Survey.
Government researchers won’t call the results disappointing, but lead author Tala Fakhouri of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, “There’s always room for improvement.”
The CDC released partial results Wednesday from the fitness survey, which involved kids aged 3 to 15. Other results from the same survey are pending and include fitness data based on more objective measures including treadmill tests.
Fakhouri said the nationally representative results provide useful information for initiatives that aim to increase kids’ fitness, including the Let’s Move anti-obesity campaign launched by first lady Michelle Obama in 2010.
Kids in the survey reported on which physical activities they did most frequently outside of school gym class — basketball for boys and running for girls.
While few met guidelines established in 2008 for activity that raises the heart rate and makes you breathe harder, most said they did at least an hour of exercise at that level during the previous week. Overall, about 25 percent said they got an hour of that kind of exercise every day
Obese kids were less active than normal-weight girls and boys. Overweight girls were slightly less active than normal-weight girls, but levels were similar among overweight and normal-weight boys.
“It’s definitely very concerning to see that our kids are engaging in such a limited amount of physical activity each day when we are still battling” an obesity epidemic, said Dr. Stephen Pont, an Austin, Texas, pediatrician and chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ section on obesity.
Data suggest obesity may have decreased slightly among some kids but the overall rate for children aged 2 to 19 is 17 percent, or about 12.5 million obese kids.
Pont said schools can do more to help by not cutting recess and giving kids more time for physical activity. He said research suggests kids who get physical education at school may do better academically.
Recent national data on kids’ fitness levels is limited. A 2009-10 CDC survey involving kids ages 6 to 11 found about 70 percent met the physical activity guidelines, although levels dropped off among older kids in that age group. The results came from parents, who may be inclined to over-report how active their kids are because of “social desirability,” the researchers said.
Fitness in Teen Years May Guard Against This - WebMD
Fitness in Teen Years May Guard Against This
Swedish study found link between aerobic fitness at 18 and lowered heart attack risk in middle age
WebMD News from HealthDay
By Dennis Thompson
HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 8, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- People who are aerobically fit as teenagers are less likely to have a heart attack[1] in middle age, a study of nearly 750,000 Swedish men suggests.
Every 15 percent increase in aerobic fitness[2] in your teen years is associated with an 18 percent reduced risk of heart attack three decades later, researchers report in the Jan. 8 online edition of the European Heart Journal.
The results also suggest that teens and young adults who undergo regular cardiovascular training have a 35 percent reduced risk of heart attack later in life.
Aerobic fitness[3] as a teen even appears to help people who become obese[4] later in life, said research leader Peter Nordstrom, of Umea University in Sweden.
"It should be noted that aerobic fitness decreased the risk of heart attack significantly within also overweight and obese men," Nordstrom said. Obese men who had the highest aerobic fitness as teens enjoyed a 60 percent lower risk of heart attack compared with obese men who had the least fitness.
However, obese men with high aerobic fitness did have a higher risk of heart attack than lean men with little aerobic fitness. While the study found an association between aerobic fitness and chances of heart trouble, it did not establish a cause-and-effect relationship.
The findings emphasize the need for improved physical fitness among young people, said Dr. Stephen Daniels, chairman of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and a spokesman for the American Heart Association.
"Even though the diseases we see are diseases of older adults, it's increasingly clear that where people are in childhood and adolescence is critically important," Daniels said. "We probably aren't doing enough to help our young population become fit and avoid obesity."
For the study, the researchers analyzed medical data from 743,498 men drafted into the Swedish army at age 18 between 1969 and 1984.
As a part of induction, all of the draftees took part in a physical examination that included a test of their aerobic fitness. They all had to ride on an exercise bicycle until they were too exhausted to continue.
National health registers provided information on heart attacks the men suffered later in life. Doctors used this medical data to track men for an average 34 years following their military physical exam.
The researchers found that men with the lowest aerobic fitness had a more than twofold increased risk of later heart attack compared with men who were most fit.
The study authors also looked into the joint effect of obesity and fitness, and found that across all weight groups the risk of a later heart attack increased significantly when comparing the least fit with the most fit.
References
- ^ heart attack (www.webmd.com)
- ^ aerobic fitness (www.webmd.com)
- ^ fitness (www.webmd.com)
- ^ obese (www.webmd.com)
Fitness in Teen Years May Guard Against Heart Trouble Later - Philly.com
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 8, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- People who are aerobically fit as teenagers are less likely to have a heart attack in middle age, a study of nearly 750,000 Swedish men suggests.
Every 15 percent increase in aerobic fitness in your teen years is associated with an 18 percent reduced risk of heart attack three decades later, researchers report in the Jan. 8 online edition of the European Heart Journal.
The results also suggest that teens and young adults who undergo regular cardiovascular training have a 35 percent reduced risk of heart attack later in life.
Aerobic fitness as a teen even appears to help people who become obese later in life, said research leader Peter Nordstrom, of Umea University in Sweden.
"It should be noted that aerobic fitness decreased the risk of heart attack significantly within also overweight and obese men," Nordstrom said. Obese men who had the highest aerobic fitness as teens enjoyed a 60 percent lower risk of heart attack compared with obese men who had the least fitness.
However, obese men with high aerobic fitness did have a higher risk of heart attack than lean men with little aerobic fitness. While the study found an association between aerobic fitness and chances of heart trouble, it did not establish a cause-and-effect relationship.
The findings emphasize the need for improved physical fitness among young people, said Dr. Stephen Daniels, chairman of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and a spokesman for the American Heart Association.
"Even though the diseases we see are diseases of older adults, it's increasingly clear that where people are in childhood and adolescence is critically important," Daniels said. "We probably aren't doing enough to help our young population become fit and avoid obesity."
For the study, the researchers analyzed medical data from 743,498 men drafted into the Swedish army at age 18 between 1969 and 1984.
As a part of induction, all of the draftees took part in a physical examination that included a test of their aerobic fitness. They all had to ride on an exercise bicycle until they were too exhausted to continue.
National health registers provided information on heart attacks the men suffered later in life. Doctors used this medical data to track men for an average 34 years following their military physical exam.
The researchers found that men with the lowest aerobic fitness had a more than twofold increased risk of later heart attack compared with men who were most fit.
The study authors also looked into the joint effect of obesity and fitness, and found that across all weight groups the risk of a later heart attack increased significantly when comparing the least fit with the most fit.
However, the fittest obese men ran a 71 percent increased risk of heart attack when compared to men who were unfit but lean. They also had more than four times the heart attack risk faced by the fittest lean men.
"This study helps to address the 'fitness versus fatness' question by indicating that both are important, but they are independently important," Daniels said. "Good fitness can't completely counterbalance the health effects of excess weight. Obviously, the best is to be normal weight and fit, which is what we should be aiming at for the majority of our population."
Muscle strength, which also was tested during induction, did not appear to provide the same heart health benefits as aerobic fitness.
Genetics likely plays a large part in the aerobic fitness of teens and, by extension, their protection against heart attack, Nordstrom said. Another study that focused on twins within this same set of patients found that 78 percent of the variation in their aerobic fitness could be chalked up to genetics.
But it could also be that men who are in good shape in their teens have adopted the sort of lifestyle that will keep them healthy later in life, said Dr. Mark Urman, a member of the American College of Cardiology's Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Committee.
"If you're fit as a teenager, you're going to be more likely to stay in shape over the course of your life," Urman said. "The better shape you're in, the less apt you are to have cardiovascular problems."
More information
For more information on children and physical fitness, visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention[1] .
SOURCES: Peter Nordstrom, Umea University, Umea, Sweden; Stephen Daniels, M.D., chairman, pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, and spokesman, American Heart Association; Mark Urman, M.D., member, American College of Cardiology's Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Committee; Jan. 8, 2014, European Heart Journal, online
Copyright © 2014 HealthDay[2] . All rights reserved.
References
- ^ U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (www.cdc.gov)
- ^ HealthDay (www.healthday.com)
Before you chase your fitness resolution -- Read this - Daily Camera
![Sam Iannetta, left, helps Eric Warner with his lifting form. Sam Iannetta teaches "fitness longevity" at his Functional Fitness and Wellness](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tDgnfGOobJG1l1iKu7NcspJ8tzOBVZdvg4dIHlPVu-R2d-1CNoiZ8urFHswtZVgZQKWKFBg0XFuGAOeT3T42agqiQ-4iSiiIXY1PXe10ZDvQ8ApmpYdsY6S05L1ZdIqlFXSA6eR_A3iizA1j64rExAVnHqNzTfVJSOjQ=s0-d "Sam Iannetta, left, helps Eric Warner with his lifting form. Sam Iannetta teaches "fitness longevity" at his Functional Fitness and Wellness")
Sam Iannetta, left, helps Eric Warner with his lifting form. Sam Iannetta teaches "fitness longevity" at his Functional Fitness and Wellness Center in Boulder. ( Cliff Grassmick )
Title: "Change Agents," by Brian Tracy, featuring Boulder fitness expert Sam Iannetta, $19.22 on Amazon.com[1] . Royalties go to the nonprofit Entrepreneur's International Foundation.
Pages: 488
Published: Sept. 19 by CelebrityPress
On the web
Functional Fitness: FunctionalFitnessUsa.com[2]
Mary VonBreck blew her New Year's resolution every year for years. The Boulder woman says she set fitness goals and tried to push through the pain in her knee. But it kept getting harder. Until she could push no longer.
Today, she realizes it wasn't a question of her dedication. It was the physical reality of her body. And she's changing that reality.
VonBreck has always been active, and she says her love for skiing, windsurfing and sports ultimately took sports away from her. VonBreck is in her 40s and has already had four knee surgeries, due to a torn ACL, followed by such severe atrophy that she says some of her muscles stopped working entirely.
This New Year's, VonBreck is not resolving to run more or even strength train. She's focusing on her foundation. She's redefining her entire definition of fitness.
VonBreck is training with Boulder trainer Sam Iannetta, who's been helping people with fitness and nutrition for 34 years. He runs Sam Iannetta's Functional Fitness and Wellness Center in Boulder, and he teaches something there that goes counter to many other fitness programs.
He's not a big fan of playing sports.
In fact, he considers "sport" an acronym for "specific performance of repetitive trauma." In other words, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Which also happens to be a definition of insanity.
Iannetta's fitness philosophy, which he calls the "Fitness Longevity Paradigm," was recently featured in the Amazon best-selling book, "Change Agents: The World's Leading Experts Reveal Their Secrets for Successfully Changing the Status Quo to Help Their Clients Lead Better Lives and Run Better Businesses."
Brian Tracy, a well known author, motivational speaker and business-development expert, compiled the book and CelebrityPress released it in September.
On its release day, "Change Agents" hit best-seller status in seven different categories, including No. 2 in the Marketing for Small Business category.
As the (super long) title suggests, the book features a select group of leading business professionals noted for making new inroads in their respective fields, and finding success by changing both themselves and the world around them.
For Iannetta, that meant reinventing the fitness system, down to the way we teach kids in physical education.
He argues we don't teach physical education, and how the body works, but rather we teach sports education, with the underlying message that it's OK to sacrifice your body for your sport. Few kids learn about ankle alignment, knee function, posture, or even how to properly stand up out of a chair.
Look at the soccer field; there's always some kid icing something, he says.
"These sports are actually hurting us, yet the parents get them in it for health," Iannetta says. "It's the wrong way to think about what fitness is, yet we all do it."
At the core of Fitness Longevity: analyzing each client's unique movements and then creating exercises to promote fitness -- for life.
Being sore and pushing hard is not indicative of a good workout, Iannetta says. Just ask a farmer; he can't afford to be sore the day after a lot of physical activity.
Instead of signing up for the latest fitness trend -- whether that's throwing 3,000 Tae Bo kicks in the living room, or folding over like a turtle on a bike for three hours -- Iannetta encourages people to ask, "Is this really good for me, and can I see myself doing this 40 years from now?"
As Iannetta teaches, "It is not good enough to be in great shape right this second."
Before you set off on your New Year's resolution to ride 600 miles a week or run a marathon in 2014, Iannetta urges you to consider his six elements of safe and sustainable fitness. After all, you don't want one year's resolution to become the rest of your life's rehabilitation.
1. Alignment
What to do: Learn about your alignment when you are in motion.
Did you know? About half of back injuries that lead to a hospital visit occurred while picking up something less than the weight of a pencil.
Change this now: One simple thing to change: Don't bend at your hips and sacrifice your lower back to get down to the ground.
2. Normal joint range of motion
What to do: Instead of thinking about flexibility, strive to maintain a normal range of motion.
Did you know? There is no link to flexibility and longevity in sports and fitness.
Change this: Don't push your flexibility too far; hyper-mobility can sacrifice semblance of order in the joint structure and be dangerous. More is not better.
3. Gait
What to do: Begin paying attention to how you walk. Consider having your gait analyzed and learning ways to improve it, which can lead to increased muscle recruitment, improved circulation in your feet and a stronger calf and ankle.
Did you know? Everyone has a different gait. The government uses gait-tracking software to track risky people.
Change this: Don't slap the ground with your feet, and pay attention to your head, too.
4. Functional muscular strength
What to do: Train to incorporate strength, structural stability and proper movement.
Did you know? Poor positioning while sitting is as dangerous as a heavy squat.
Change this: Focus on your fitness -- but not to an absurd level. Keep it within the parameters of what you actually need in your life. There's no point in getting really great at something you'll never need to do, like flipping huge tires, Iannetta says.
5. Structural stability
What to do: Improve your ability to handle the "outside load." When things come at you, can you hold your ground or do you fall over?
Did you know? Iannetta believes your core begins at your feet and ends with your fingertips. Yeah, that'd be your whole body.
Change this: Change your terminology. You don't need balance. You need stability. You don't want to be able to balance on the stairs, you want to be stable while going up the stairs.
6. Eating and food
What to do: When eating, think about the three Q's, in this order: quantity (eating the right amount), quality (GMO-free, organic) and quiet (pay attention to your eating).
Did you know? Even just taking a few seconds and one deep breath before eating helps your body digest food better.
Change this: Turn off the TV and radio and taste your food. You will feel better.
Contact Staff Writer Aimee Heckel at 303-473-1359 or heckela@dailycamera.com, and on Twitter @Aimeemay.[3]
References
- ^ Amazon.com (www.Amazon.com)
- ^ FunctionalFitnessUsa.com (www.FunctionalFitnessUsa.com)
- ^ heckela@dailycamera.com (www.dailycamera.com)
New rec facility offers a glimpse of the future of fitness - UC Berkeley
Football’s not the only way to work up a sweat at California Memorial Stadium any longer. A new workout facility at the stadium has been designed to accommodate anyone who wants to get fit.
Located on the west side of the stadium, near Gate 2, the Stadium Fitness Center takes up 5,000 square feet of space rented from Cal Athletics by Cal Recreational Sports. It features state-of-the-art cardio machines, strength-building machines and free weights and is open to all Rec Sports members. (Anyone can buy a membership, with prices starting at $10 a semester for students.)
Director of Fitness and Wellness Operations Devin Wicks says the Stadium Fitness Center’s cutting-edge equipment represents a new approach to healthy lifestyles. (Steve Hockensmith photo)
Rec Sports runs a number of recreational centers and athletic facilities on or near campus, including the 100,000-square-foot Recreational Sports Facility on Bancroft Avenue. According to Devin Wicks, director of fitness and wellness operations for UC Berkeley, between 4,000 and 5,000 members use those facilities each day. Yet up until now, Rec Sports didn’t have a major presence on the east side of campus.
“This gave us a really good opportunity to reach a big population and make getting active and living a healthier lifestyle a little easier,” Wicks says. “If you want people to participate you have to remove as many barriers as possible, and how far you have to walk is a major barrier.”
According to Wicks, planning for the Stadium Fitness Center focused on three priorities: inclusivity, innovative technology and “functional training” (that is, exercise that prepares people for the physical challenges of everyday life). The inclusivity is reflected in a number of the center’s features, such as bathrooms and locker rooms that aren’t reserved for a specific gender only and workout equipment that can be adjusted to accommodate people in wheelchairs.
“The question we kept asking ourselves was, ‘How do we make all this accessible to everyone?’” Wicks says, adding that planners wanted to avoid pushing users with disabilities into a special section of the facility. ” We wanted everyone to be included in the overall space.”
The fitness center’s Kinesis Wall (which allows people to work out via a system of pulleys and handgrips) and Synrgy360 (a work-out station Wicks likens to “an adult jungle gym”) are not only easily modifiable for exercisers in wheelchairs, but also focus on the functional training Rec Sports wanted to emphasize.
“It’s all about functional fitness, not training your biceps because you want them to get big,” Wicks says. “It’s training your body for life.”
Of course, it’s not just people who have to be ready for everyday wear and tear. Workout equipment gets plenty, too – especially Rec Sports equipment.
“A lot of the manufacturers come to us and say, ‘Oh, our stuff is the toughest and strongest,’” Wicks says. “And I say, ‘Give it to us for two years. We’ll see how tough it is.’ We really put equipment through its paces.”
That’s sure to be true for the equipment in the Stadium Fitness Center, but now there’s a difference. The cardio equipment in the new fitness center is networked, giving staff access to real-time diagnostics and flagging potential problems.
“I can go on my computer and see how each piece is doing, and if something looks troubling I can send someone up to repair it before it breaks down,” Wicks says. “With as many members as we see, having one piece of equipment down is really tough. It impacts everybody. So being able to avoid that is great.”
Soon screens like these will feature streaming movies and TV in addition to personalized workout stats.
And the networking hasn’t just made Wicks’s job easier. It’s made tracking personalized workout stats a breeze, as well. Members are able to log onto cardio machines that remember their past workouts, apply their preferences, count the number of calories they’ve burned and even – in a change coming Jan. 17 – allow them to watch streaming movies and TV shows.
According to Wicks, innovations like that are sure to make the already-popular new fitness center even more of a hit. In the evenings, he says, the Stadium Fitness Center was close to hitting its maximum capacity – 60 members at a time – consistently throughout finals, when Rec Sports numbers usually drop off. By March, he estimates, there will be lines to get in during peak hours.
Mike Weinberger, director of Rec Sports, has taken note of the new fitness center’s fast start and says its innovations will eventually spread across campus.
“This is the approach we’d like to take with all of our facilities, and any new facilities that we build in the future,” he says.
“My sense is that this is a lab for us as we start looking ahead,” Wicks adds. “We can test things out here and then say, ‘O.K., this is working. Let’s take it down to the Rec Sports Facility.’ So this is kind of the future. It’s what Rec Sports hopefully will be.”
Gen. Cone: Army physical fitness standards need to be improved - Killeen Daily Herald
With the Marine Corps making headlines this week over pullups for female recruits, local residents had questions about the Army’s physical fitness standards for women during a visit from the commander of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command earlier this week.
“Most soldiers will tell you they think certain women have earned the right in the last 12 years to serve in any kind of unit in the Army, but we must maintain standards,” said Gen. Robert Cone, whose command is responsible for how the Army will approach integrating women into combat roles. Cone was at an Association of the United States Army meeting Monday in Killeen.
Right now, he said, the Army doesn’t “have very good standards.”
In the future, Cone said he wants the fitness tests to be all inclusive, but the current test is graded based on a soldier’s age and gender. The current test includes three events — pushups, situps and a two-mile run.
As a 39-year-old man, Staff Sgt. Shaheed Aziz must do 34 pushups, 38 situps and run an 18:18. A female in that age bracket would need 13 pushups, 38 situps and a 22:42 run.
“The younger you are, you really have to move your body, but the older guys really compete with these younger folks,” said Aziz, the master fitness trainer for 41st Fires Brigade at Fort Hood. “Everybody goes out there and gives it their best.”
To change that, Cone said a team identified 31 tasks required of soldiers, and is working to test physical requirements in a gender-neutral, age-neutral way. For example, he said, soldiers in the armor field should be able to carry a 52-pound tank round.
By 2017, he said he hopes to have a new physical fitness test that will test soldiers on three to four events that encompass those identified tasks. This approach is different from the Marines, he said.
“The (physical training) test has to be for everybody,” Cone said. “It’s not about the PT test, it’s about the PT you do.”
To reinvigorate the Army’s physical training program, Cone brought back the Master Fitness Trainer Program, of which Aziz is a graduate. Relaunched in April, the program trains certain soldiers of various units in a standardized way, so they can teach other soldiers to increase combat-readiness and control injuries, said Maj. David Feltwell, a physical therapist at the Army Physical Fitness School at Fort Jackson, S.C.
“Because it develops overall proficiency in movement and strength and endurance, it really allows you to be strong no matter what test you’re given,” he said. “If you think about combat being your test, you prepare for any of the physical components of that test. ... The Army physical fitness test doesn’t really test you for combat, but it tests your physical fitness level.”
About 1,500 soldiers completed the master fitness program, including 200 from Fort Hood.
Aziz said he’s seen his unit’s PT test averages increase since he began scheduling training nearly eight months ago. He also makes sure soldiers who are in an alternate physical fitness plan, due to injury or other reasons, are getting the proper training and care they need to get back to their appropriate fitness level.
“We’re trying to give them something to achieve,” he said of helping soldiers improve their test scores.
Rose L. Thayer is the military editor for the Killeen Daily Herald. She joined the paper in February 2011 as a health and military reporter. View her complete profile Here[1] . You can contact Rose L. Thayer at rthayer@kdhnews.com or (254) 501-7463. Follow her on Twitter at KDHmilitary.
1 in 4 young teens meet US fitness guidelines - WCPO
CHICAGO -- Young teens aren't exactly embracing the government's Let's Move mantra, the latest fitness data suggest.
Only 1 in 4 U.S. kids aged 12 to 15 meet the recommendations - an hour or more of moderate to vigorous activity every day.
The results are based on about 800 kids who self-reported their activity levels and had physical exams as part of the 2012 National Youth Fitness Survey.
Government researchers won't call the results disappointing, but lead author Tala Fakhouri of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, "There's always room for improvement."
The CDC released partial results Wednesday from the fitness survey, which involved kids aged 3 to 15. Other results from the same survey are pending and include fitness data based on more objective measures including treadmill tests.
Fakhouri said the nationally representative results provide useful information for initiatives that aim to increase kids' fitness, including the Let's Move anti-obesity campaign launched by first lady Michelle Obama in 2010.
Kids in the survey reported on which physical activities they did most frequently outside of school gym class - basketball for boys and running for girls.
While few met guidelines established in 2008 for activity that raises the heart rate and makes you breathe harder, most said they did at least an hour of exercise at that level during the previous week. Overall, about 25 percent said they got an hour of that kind of exercise every day
Obese kids were less active than normal-weight girls and boys. Overweight girls were slightly less active than normal-weight girls, but levels were similar among overweight and normal-weight boys.
"It's definitely very concerning to see that our kids are engaging in such a limited amount of physical activity each day when we are still battling" an obesity epidemic, said Dr. Stephen Pont, an Austin, Texas, pediatrician and chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics' section on obesity.
Data suggest obesity may have decreased slightly among some kids but the overall rate for children aged 2 to 19 is 17 percent, or about 12.5 million obese kids.
Pont said schools can do more to help by not cutting recess and giving kids more time for physical activity. He said research suggests kids who get physical education at school may do better academically.
Recent national data on kids' fitness levels is limited. A 2009-10 CDC survey involving kids ages 6 to 11 found about 70 percent met the physical activity guidelines, although levels dropped off among older kids in that age group. The results came from parents, who may be inclined to over-report how active their kids are because of "social desirability," the researchers said.
Fitness in teen years may guard against heart trouble later - WDAM-TV
By Dennis Thompson
HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 8, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- People who are aerobically fit as teenagers are less likely to have a heart attack in middle age, a study of nearly 750,000 Swedish men suggests.
Every 15 percent increase in aerobic fitness in your teen years is associated with an 18 percent reduced risk of heart attack three decades later, researchers report in the Jan. 8 online edition of the European Heart Journal.
The results also suggest that teens and young adults who undergo regular cardiovascular training have a 35 percent reduced risk of heart attack later in life.
Aerobic fitness as a teen even appears to help people who become obese later in life, said research leader Peter Nordstrom, of Umea University in Sweden.
"It should be noted that aerobic fitness decreased the risk of heart attack significantly within also overweight and obese men," Nordstrom said. Obese men who had the highest aerobic fitness as teens enjoyed a 60 percent lower risk of heart attack compared with obese men who had the least fitness.
However, obese men with high aerobic fitness did have a higher risk of heart attack than lean men with little aerobic fitness. While the study found an association between aerobic fitness and chances of heart trouble, it did not establish a cause-and-effect relationship.
The findings emphasize the need for improved physical fitness among young people, said Dr. Stephen Daniels, chairman of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and a spokesman for the American Heart Association.
"Even though the diseases we see are diseases of older adults, it's increasingly clear that where people are in childhood and adolescence is critically important," Daniels said. "We probably aren't doing enough to help our young population become fit and avoid obesity."
For the study, the researchers analyzed medical data from 743,498 men drafted into the Swedish army at age 18 between 1969 and 1984.
As a part of induction, all of the draftees took part in a physical examination that included a test of their aerobic fitness. They all had to ride on an exercise bicycle until they were too exhausted to continue.
National health registers provided information on heart attacks the men suffered later in life. Doctors used this medical data to track men for an average 34 years following their military physical exam.
The researchers found that men with the lowest aerobic fitness had a more than twofold increased risk of later heart attack compared with men who were most fit.
The study authors also looked into the joint effect of obesity and fitness, and found that across all weight groups the risk of a later heart attack increased significantly when comparing the least fit with the most fit.
However, the fittest obese men ran a 71 percent increased risk of heart attack when compared to men who were unfit but lean. They also had more than four times the heart attack risk faced by the fittest lean men.
"This study helps to address the 'fitness versus fatness' question by indicating that both are important, but they are independently important," Daniels said. "Good fitness can't completely counterbalance the health effects of excess weight. Obviously, the best is to be normal weight and fit, which is what we should be aiming at for the majority of our population."
Muscle strength, which also was tested during induction, did not appear to provide the same heart health benefits as aerobic fitness.
Genetics likely plays a large part in the aerobic fitness of teens and, by extension, their protection against heart attack, Nordstrom said. Another study that focused on twins within this same set of patients found that 78 percent of the variation in their aerobic fitness could be chalked up to genetics.
But it could also be that men who are in good shape in their teens have adopted the sort of lifestyle that will keep them healthy later in life, said Dr. Mark Urman, a member of the American College of Cardiology's Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Committee.
"If you're fit as a teenager, you're going to be more likely to stay in shape over the course of your life," Urman said. "The better shape you're in, the less apt you are to have cardiovascular problems."
More information
For more information on children and physical fitness, visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention[1] .
Copyright © 2014 HealthDay[2] . All rights reserved.
References
- ^ U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (www.cdc.gov)
- ^ HealthDay (www.healthday.com)
American Media in licensing deal talks overseas for Men's Fitness - New York Post
David Zinczenko, the onetime top editor of Men’s Health, who is credited with reviving rival Men’s Fitness, is about to carry his battle with his former title overseas.
American Media Inc., which is struggling with a dizzying newsstand decline for many of its US supermarket tabloids, is in talks with several overseas publishers about licensing and joint venture deals for its Men’s Fitness brand — with Zinczenko as the point man.
The two men’s health mags had great years on the ad front, with Men’s Fitness — which copped honors at Adweek’s Restart of the Year — up 28.9 percent on the year, and Men’s Health up 22.2 percent, according to MIN.
But AMI has little experience overseas. Its one recent foray was an ill-fated French edition of Shape.
Zinczenko had been involved in many of the early overseas branding efforts of Men’s Health before he came home to run the US edition a dozen years ago. Then in November 2012, he had his infamous falling out with cyber poet and Rodale CEO Maria Rodale, who declined to renew his contract.
Men’s Health still has a prodigious lead overseas with 40 overseas editions, making it one of the top men’s magazine brands in the world, and recently added ITP as its partner in Dubai.