Clippin’ bolts – Sport Climbing in Colorado

Hank Shell The arena of rock climbing in Colorado has long been hotbed of debate and jocular friction, one where seasoned climbers champion their chosen discipline and, at times, spite those others that don’t meet their ideal vision of the sport. This schism can be especially stark between traditional climbing purists and hard-charging sport climbers.

Thoughts from Grayson: The Long Haul

Thoughts from Grayson: The Long Haul

Grayson Fertig   Training Strategy for the Long Haul The first 4 weeks Create for yourself a strategy-driven approach to physical readiness.  Think in terms of 4 week periods.  Develop your intensity across 3 weeks and use the 4th week for active recovery.  Train 3 times per week with the focus building off of Day

Exercise with a Cold

Should You Exercise With A Cold?

  Gillian White – MSc., BSc., PhD Candidate Should you exercise with a cold? Exploring the rationale of “sweating it out” Exercise Sciences, University of Toronto With cold and flu season upon us and my own health to keep in mind, I thought I would get into the nuts and bolts of how exercise effects our

Stay Fit with Elk Hunting in the Colorado Rockies

Hank Shell Fall in Colorado’s Southern San Juan Range is a fickle and tempestuous season. The landscape undergoes a metamorphosis of color as the truncated days and cool nights set the once green collars of the mountains ablaze with orange leaves. Hoar frost supplants the morning dew on Alpine meadows of sedge and hairgrass, and the first

Mental Game Tip

The Game Forever Fit Science Master Racquetball Athlete and veteran of the U.S. Air Force Ed Roffey gives some great game tips that help him mentally during his racquetball games. Listen up because Ed is the 2015 World Masters Champion and 2015 Huntsman World Senior Games Gold Medalist!   You Might Like:

Reduce Healthcare Costs

Reduce Healthcare Costs with Exercise

Julia Basso – PhD It’s that spooky time of year, and surely something’s scary…healthcare costs in the United States.  Countries around the world spend on average 9% of their gross domestic product (GDP) on health care.  From this graph, which represents the healthcare costs per capita as a percentage of the GDP, you can see

Food for Fuel: Healthy Granola Bar Recipe

Forever Fit Science Master Swim Athletes and U.S. Air Force Lieutenants, The Holman Sisters, share an excellent and healthy recipe to keep you feeling good and fueled up! You Might Like:

Exercise Increases Neurons in the Brain

Julia Basso – PhD Adult neurogenesis (i.e., the birth of new neurons in the adult brain) is a big thing in neuroscience.  For a long time, neuroscientists thought that new neurons emerged only during stages of early development.  In the 1960s, the discovery that new neurons continue to be born in the adult brain was

Meet Master Racquetball Champion Ed Roffey

Meet Forever Fit Science Master Racquetball Champion Ed Roffey. Roffey is a 57 year old 2015 World Master Racquetball Champion and 2015 Huntsman World Senior Games Gold Medalist.  Roffey is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and was dedicated to getting better at racquetball during his active duty in the military and after. You

16-Week Training Program

16-Week Training Program to Help Promote Health

Julia Basso A recent article I wrote focused on the beneficial effects of a multimodal exercise program on “inflammaging”, or the phenomenon of increased brain inflammation as we age.  The same group that conducted this research at the Federal University of Sao Carlos in Brazil also showed how this fitness regimen improves cognitive functioning in

Getting There

Getting There

Paul Stevens Carpe Diem (but in a relaxed sort of way) “GETTING THERE” Today was supposed to be a red letter day as the neck brace I have to wear to protect a couple of cracked vertebrae was to come off.  That would have been a distinct ‘Yahoo!” moment as this thing is slowly driving

Endocannabinoids

Thoughts From Grayson: Endocannabinoids

Grayson Fertig Thoughts From Grayson: Endocannabinoids Dear Fasttwitchgrandmas, Let’s say the article Dr. Julia Basso wrote caught your eye-Endocannabinoids: The Secret to Why Exercise Makes Us Feel So Good. And this idea or feeling of an exercise high made you say I want that. Well then what’s next? Maybe for some you’re already there whereas