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“Because You Deserve to Feel Better!”
You’ve heard about the benefits of weight-bearing exercise for strengthening your bones.
Being straight and having a strong backside puts the pressure of being upright on your bones, where it belongs. That lets your bones become strong.
And you can read about preventing osteoporosis with good posture (which you can create with the SimpleStrengthening exercises.)
I’m here to testify…
I kind of hate to admit it, but from time to time, I trip.
I had a lovely “trip” just a few days ago. A five-point landing. No one applauded, but I’m quite sure it was very impressive.
And, once again, I did not break any bones.
And, I am grateful.
How do I keep my bones strong and healthy?
Let me count the ways:
1. Plenty of sunshine (creates vitamin D.) Bones need vitamin D to absorb calcium from your food. (D3 is the best type.)
Most people in the northern United States are deficient in Vitamin D. This happens because you don’t get enough sunshine on your skin for one reason or another. Your doctor can do a blood test to check if you are deficient, if you want.
A good time to get sunshine is while you are…
2. Walking. Walking is weight-bearing exercise. So is being on your feet while you watch TV.
Instead of Read the rest of this entry »
Osteoporosis is not something we want to have. What we really want are strong, healthy bones.
So, I’m going to tell you about the most common cause of osteoporosis.
It’s really common to see people with their heads Read the rest of this entry »
I was starting to have “crabby” knees, and decided I had to do something about it.
I remembered working with a man who had severe damage to both knees. He told me he could walk without pain, even on stairs, as long as he kept the muscles around his knees strong. He did this with machine weight training.
I thought about him, and decided Read the rest of this entry »
If your legs feel weak, or achey, here’s a solution for you.
We were built for movement and when we don’t move enough – when we spend too much time in a chair or car – our leg muscles get out of balance and lose strength. Balance and strength occur when we use our legs. When we use our legs, and they are strong, we feel stable instead of weak.
When your legs are out of balance – some muscles are weaker than others – then you get aches and pains in your legs. When your muscles are out of balance, they pull on the bones in a different way than they are supposed to. This causes arthritis.
Some savvy doctors Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s an easy, simple strengthening strategy to get long, strong torso muscles.
We often fall into the habit of having a weak, collapsed forward posture. This simple strengthening tip will help you get Read the rest of this entry »
A physical therapist told me that the best way to strengthen abdominal muscles was just to “suck in your stomach and hold it,” several times. And that does work, but when we want strong and flat abdominal muscles, we often think of sit-ups.
Here are a few reasons why they may not be the exercise-of-choice for you.
When you do sit-ups, it’s easy to Read the rest of this entry »
If I were to ask you what causes the pain between your shoulder blades, what would you say?
Would you tell me the cause was stress? Overwork? Old age? Arthritis? Or from your nerves or bones?
Would you be surprised if I told you that the cause was most likely… Read the rest of this entry »
If a doctor looked at an x-ray of any one of us, he or she would say, “Oh, you have arthritis.”
When the doctor can see bony changes in an x-ray, the assumption is that’s the reason for our hip pain as well as any other complaints we have.
Well, maybe. Maybe not.
We all have changes in our bones and joints that show up on x-rays. Do we all have pain?
No.
But when a doctor can see something Read the rest of this entry »
Is it actually possible that exercise can help get rid of your migraine headaches?
Yes, in many ways.
Often the muscles on the tops of your shoulders, the front and the back of your neck, and your jaw get tight.
They get tight because we Read the rest of this entry »
