MLHF: The Best Workout For You. Just the facts! YOUR strength training utilizing MedX & Nautilus resistance equipment is the MOST IMPORTANT component of your overall health & conditioning program. Why? Because, properly performed strength training stimulates response/results in all components of functional ability- strength (muscle & bone), cardiovascular ability & flexibility ALL IN THE [...]
The only assumption in this “how to,” article is that the reader is choosing to join a gym in order to get RESULTS. Results, in this definition, are stimulating improvement in good health and thus overall appearance. If the reader, however, is seeking to join a gym for purely social reasons, those justifications lay OUTSIDE [...]
By Roger Schwab My personal interest in spinal injuries began somewhat abruptly, merely several years into serious strength training. Aside from several on-field contact sport related injuries, the most intense of my spinal and various joint-related injuries were the result of my misuse of a barbell. If any readers of this article trained in the [...]
By Roger Schwab Some wise man once spoke that “the more things change, the more they remain the same.” In the vast, expanding field of fitness and sports/medicine, the significance of this insight has become a double-edged sword. The consequences of which will be the subject of this viewpoint. Opinions on every facet of our [...]
By Roger Schwab If the concept of explosive exercise and its supposed benefits have been “peer-reviewed” and supported by any bona fide study, justification of the entire scope of exercise science must be seriously questioned. Explosive exercise and the “considerable evidence” of benefits as cited by the authors are far outweighed by common sense. Injuries [...]
by Roger Schwab Flip through the pages of any fitness magazine, men or women’s, and the obvious overtone quickly rises from the glossy pages. Usually in bold print, the words scream out with the “latest and greatest” new workout for optimum results. Strong words with catchy titles -”Tae Bo,” “Power Yoga,” “Sergeant’s Program,” “Pilates,” and [...]
Main Line Health and Fitness introduced a specific lymphedema protocol over 30 years ago, which focuses on stimulating a stronger, well-toned and more flexible limb without exacerbating lymphedema symptoms. For trainees who have undergone treatment for breast cancer, we have empirical evidence that medically sound exercise will stimulate a physiological response, safely. For trainees who [...]
This past Saturday, after a morning’s work at Main Line Health and Fitness, I was invited to visit the newly completed fitness center of a nearby university. The facility looked to be about 15,000 square feet of workout space, similar to the third floor of MLH&F, and was filled with equipment. Upon entering, directly to [...]
On Tuesday, February 10, 2009, I completed, what I considered, a very interesting echo stress test. The test, non-invasively, examines the function of the heart at rest through a series of ultra-sound tests conducted by a cardiac technician. This includes examining the cardiac output, valve function and heart wall thickness. This is followed by a [...]