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Fitness Myths

Heavy Cardio Workouts

May 1, 2010
By: Ronelle Wood, M.S.

According to the Surgeon General exercise should be done 3-5 times/week for 30 mins./day at an elevated heart rate.

Your heart and blood vessels know how to respond to regular rhythmic motion. Your connective tissue/fascial system will automatically “wrap” you tighter to conserve muscular activity. If you don’t innervate muscles, your brain isn’t talking to those muscles. Your fascial system clamps down and holds everything very tightly. That kind of static pressure is not what your heart and blood vessels know how to respond to.

A much more effective and efficient way to lower blood pressure without wearing out your heart pump . . . is to increase the area into which the blood is allowed to flow. PULLING blood into new areas. Waking up the muscles that have gone to sleep. Reactivating motor skills. New and novel movement every day. Stretching. Myofascial release.

Urinary Incontinence

June 1, 2010
By: Ronelle Wood, M.S.

According to the National Association for Incontinence, 25 million adult Americans experience transient or chronic urinary incontinence. They estimate that 75-80% of those sufferers are women and that information on healthy bladder function can help promote the understanding that incontinence is not a normal part of aging but a symptom of another problem.

A tucked pelvis can be the single most aggravating factor in urinary incontinence. We now know that in spite of what your ballet teacher or aerobics instructor or even physical therapist might have told you, tucking your pelvis is not good for you.

Bunions

March 1, 2010
By: Ronelle Wood, M.S.

We learn by imitation. We learn how to talk, eat, and walk by watching what our parents (or primary caregivers) do. That’s how we develop the same accent and eating habits and gait patterns they have. Bunions are not passed from one generation to the next through our DNA. Bunions develop as a result of the first metatarsal bone of the big toe being loaded with weight.

Our skeleton is designed for osteogenesis (making more bone) as a result of the amount of weight it has to carry on a regular basis. That is why it is so important to keep your body weight in your heels! Every time you take a step and your heel strikes first, it vibrates your entire skeleton and it generates exactly the amount of bone it needs to support your body weight.

Fitness vs. Wellness

April 1, 2010
By: Ronelle Wood MS

“I want to have arms like Jennifer Aniston.” vs. “I want to live an active, healthy pain-free life.” We are often being bombarded with commercials that promote “rock hard abs” and “buns of steel” and promises to “look better than you have in 10 years”. The models they use are images of physical perfection. They even show before and after pictures of how these people look from the outside.

They don’t show the results of their blood panel, their hormone levels, their X-rays and MRIs and they don’t talk about how their joints feel when they get out of bed in the morning.



by Dr. Radut.