⭑ It's true music before sleep improves your deep sleep ✔ And your brain health ⭑ How elite athletes manage their sleep for performance ✔ Great tips for us⭑ Nothing beats deep sleep for improving your healthspan ✔ Research⭑ This exercise will boost your internal energy and help you sleep ✔ Tai Chi All strength to Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Hello, I trust you are well and active. Recently I noticed a pattern in my morning recovery scores on one of my apps. I was perplexed at first, but it turned...
8 days ago • 6 min read
⭑ Brain insulin resistant starts at 40 ✔ Starves your brain neurons of energy⭑ Brain insulin resistance happens without type 2 diabetes ✔ Don’t be complacent⭑ How our modern diet drives brain insulin resistance ✔ And what to eat instead⭑ This exercise will help your brain health ✔ At home All strength to Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Hello, I trust you are well and active. As I happened last week, I stumbled upon another theme which I decided to fors on the entire newsletter - neuronal insulin...
15 days ago • 7 min read
⭑ How healthy mitochondria power your entire body ✔ Not just your muscles⭑ Amazing news - you can regrow your mitochondria ✔ This could be life-changing⭑ This style of exercise boosts your mitochondria numbers ✔ You can do it⭑ The one exercise which will most regrow mitochondria ✔ At home All strength to Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Hello, I trust you are well and active. It was not my intention, however while researching strength training and healthspan 3 articles caught my attention because I...
22 days ago • 5 min read
⭑ Looking outside yourself helps you live longer ✔ Science found it so⭑ Good carbs are your friend in middle age ✔ Especially for women⭑ Sore knees should not stop you exercising ✔ Do this⭑ The exercise, done well, will ease your lower pain ✔ Check the fine points All strength to Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Hello, I trust you are well and active. We intuitively know that having some sense of purpose keeps people going for longer, or at the least they enjoy a longer healthspan. A study of 13,000...
29 days ago • 7 min read
⭑ Zombie cell killers ✔ Capers, onions, oranges, chocolate and blueberries⭑ Only deep sleep clears out cellular garbage ✔ Try for more of it⭑ Poor sight is linked with higher risk of dementia ✔ Do this⭑ Deep squats safely, seniors benefit most ✔ How to do them and why All strength to Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Hello, I trust you are well and active. Reading about shingles sends a shiver up my spine, so I had a shingles vaccination yesterday. Now I have some muscle aches and headache but nothing...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
⭑ Healthspan is king - but it is falling ✔ Compared to longevity⭑ Do this simple treadmill exercise to improve your balance ✔ Less falls⭑ Turns out that resistance training helps your brain resist decline ✔ Do this⭑ Stretch your hip flexors and reduce your knee pain ✔ Everything's connected All strength to Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Hello, I trust you are well and active. Australia's federal election is now over, votes counted, and the incumbent government retained power despite being out of...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
⭑ Exercising keeps you more alert ✔ Compared to those that don't exercise⭑ Spreading your protein over the day boost your gut health ✔ New research⭑ Exercise plus wheatgerm or mushrooms combats muscle loss ✔ Do both⭑ Nordic pole walking is a big calorie burner ✔ Here's how to get started All strength to Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Hello, I trust you are well and active. It's the Federal election weekend in Australia. To my surprise both dominant parties have been in a race to the middle...
about 2 months ago • 8 min read
⭑ Heard you need to ‘take it easy’ after 50? ✔ Let's challenge this myth All strength to Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Hello, I trust you are well and active and that you had a great Easter break. Today's newsletter is another one-subject myth-buster. How often have you seen "over-50s" fitness plans promoted as if you need something different to before 50? It assumes that over-50s require a completely different, often less intense, “age-specific” exercise plan due solely to their age. This...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
⭑ Time under eccentric tension ✔ Your secret to stronger muscles⭑ Blueberries boost gut health, and more ✔ Eat with yoghurt for 2X⭑ Bad vision busts your brain! ✔ Why it accelerates dementia⭑ Breath deep - it calms SEALS and it can calm you ✔ Here's how All strength to Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Hello, I trust you are well and active. It still seems like summer down here in Melbourne and yet we're into Autumn. It's not hot but it's warm and dry. One of many topsy-turvy things happening in the...
2 months ago • 5 min read