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Exercise Motivation to Prevent Age-Related Body Changes

Julia Basso – PhD As we age, the body goes through many changes.  These include widespread changes in body composition including loss of muscle mass and bone mass.  With this loss, there is marked a reduction in physical capacity or our ability to perform physical movements. During our 20s, we are at the peak of

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Pull-Up Power! – The Road to Your First Pull-Up

By Hank Shell   Real talk: I tend to get ahead of myself when writing these articles. Whether it’s climbing the deserts of Utah or bouldering in the mountains of southwest Colorado, I just get so plum excited to share these experiences with you all that, occasionally, I forget all about the fundamentals. Most of

Trails to Visit This Summer

10 Trails to Visit This Summer

By: Hank Shell Here are a few of our favorite trails to visit this summer: 1) Titcomb Basin Location: Pinedale, WY Distance: 27.9 miles Difficulty: Strenuous   Approaching Wyoming’s Wind River Range from the south is my favorite route of arrival. The range rises without warning from the state’s flat expanse of high southern plains,

A Look Inside The Mind Of Distance Runners

Catherine O’Brien Have you ever driven past a runner and thought “I wonder what is going through their head”? If you are like me, the answer is yes. In addition to observing pace, stride, and posture, I’ve recently found myself trying to decode distance runners faces to get a sense of what they are feeling

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Get Active To Prevent Disc Problems

Ryan Cross, B.A. Hons (Kin), MScPT, FCAMPT Registered Physiotherapist in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada   There are many different reasons to exercise.  Exercise can improve our cardiovascular system, lifting weights can make our muscles grow stronger, and in other cases, exercise can improve happiness and brain function.  Degenerative disc disease is a normal part of aging,

American College Sports Medicine Conference

American College Sports Medicine Conference – Ebook Edition

Julia Basso – PhD American College Sports Medicine Conference – Ebook Edition Over 6000 sports medicine professionals came together in Denver, CO this Spring to discuss topics ranging from Mental Health to Female Elite Athletes.  This Ebook summarizes each day’s keynote presentations and showcases the conference’s amazing lineup of celebrity speakers.  Dive deep into topics such

Simplifying Your Life In the Backcountry

8 Steps to Simplifying Your Life – In the Backcountry

When I was young, I was part of an adventure outing group in western North Carolina – kind of like Boy Scouts, but less formal, more oriented toward outdoor sports, and void of any religious components. We’d hike, climb and paddle all over the country, just a rag-tag group of granola eating kids and a

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Impact Of Competitive Sports On Female Athletes

Julia Basso – PhD Fitness athletes- the healthy body image idea: how are they doing? (Therese Methisen, The Norwegian School of Sport Sciences) Body image is important for the female fitness athletes.  Around 3 to 4 months prior to competition, many fitness athletes begin to diet.  This produces a variety of changes in body composition

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3 Strategies Behind Motivation & Sustained Fitness

Julia Basso – PhD Presidential Lecture:  No Sweat: The Surprising Science Behind Lasting Motivation and Sustained Physical Activity (Michelle Segar, University of Michigan) Check out Dr. Segar’s book, “No Sweat: How the Simple Science of Motivation Can Bring You a Lifetime of Fitness” Segar’s guiding question is, “Why don’t most people prioritize and sustain physically

American College Sports Medicine Conference

Day 4 of the American College of Sports Medicine Conference – 2017

Join the #IMove-MENT Julia Basso – PhD ACSM/SBM Co-Sponsored Symposium:  Exercise as an Integrative Approach to the Management of Chronic Pain and Addiction   Psychobiology of pain and exercise in chronic musculoskeletal pain (Dane Cook, University of Wisconsin) In patients with chronic pain issues, exercise may exacerbate fatigue, pain, and cognitive impairment often seen in

American College Sports Medicine Conference

Day 2 of the American College of Sports Medicine Conference – 2017

Impacts of Exercise, the Gut Microbiome/Metabolome and Immunity on the Brain Julia Basso – PhD Exercise or prebiotic diet increases stress resistance, modulate stress reactive neurocircuitry, and promote adaptive gut microorganisms (Monika Fleshner, University of Colorado Boulder) The gut is composed of bacteria called the gut microbiome.  Recently, a link has been shown between the

American College Sports Medicine Conference

Day 3 of the American College of Sports Medicine Conference – 2017

Neurobiological Effects of Physical Activity Julia Basso – PhD Exercise and neurodegeneration; potential therapeutic role for FNDC5/irisin (Christiane Wrann, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School) We know that exercise improves cognitive functioning, but why?  Recent research has discovered that exercise increases a protein in the muscle known as FNDC5 (fibronectin type III domain-containing protein