by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 12, 2013 | Fitness
If you want to become very strong, you have to lift weights heavy enough to make your muscles burn. It doesn't make any difference whether you move the weights slowly or rapidly. Just exercise intensely enough so your muscles feel sore the next day. The soreness...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 12, 2013 | Fitness
Many exercise programs and tests used to measure heart function are based on an unreliable MAXIMUM HEART RATE formula that predicts the fastest your heart can beat and still pump blood through your body. Although this formula is the gold standard used today, it is not...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 12, 2013 | Fitness
Can you become very strong by doing isometric exercises in which you push against something that doesn’t move, such as a wall? The single stimulus to make a muscle stronger is to exercise a muscle against a resistance; therefore, you can become strong by doing...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 12, 2013 | Fitness
Sit ups strengthen your belly muscles, provided that you know how to do them. Lie on your back with your knees bent with your soles on the floor. Place your hands on your chest and slowly raise your head off the ground. Then, slowly raise your shoulders off the ground...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 12, 2013 | Fitness
People with high arches are at increased risk for foot pain and stress fractures of their bones of their feet because their feet are usually very poor shock absorbers. A report in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (October 2007) shows that custom orthotics can...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 12, 2013 | Fitness
In 1937, Dr. Peter Karpovich of Springfield College in Massachusetts published a ground breaking paper showing that lifting weights helped men improve their coordination. At the time, his paper was ridiculed by most athletes in professional sports. Many of the most...
