Len Kravitz
Len Kravitz, PhD is a professor and program coordinator of exercise science at the University of New Mexico where he recently received the Presidential Award of Distinction and the Outstanding Teacher of the Year award. In addition to being a 2016 inductee into the National Fitness Hall of Fame, Dr. Kravitz was awarded the Fitness Educator of the Year by the American Council on Exercise. Just recently, ACSM honored him with writing the 'Paper of the Year' for the ACSM Health and Fitness Journal.View FitConnect Profile
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Exercise recommendations for people with disabilities like arthritis, hearing disabilities, visual impairments and intellectual disabilities.
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Now is the time to focus on developing new means of professional direction and income, and youth fitness is a worthy consideration.
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This article provides you with the evidence-based tools to help clients make a strong start in increasing muscular hypertrophy.
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This article will highlight 10 advanced resistance training techniques that improve muscular fitness, strength and mass.
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With the holidays often come new stressors. Family get-togethers, shopping, decorating, gift buying and wrapping, cooking and baking, and attending special activities can place extra demands on clients and lead to stress.
Here are 10 holiday stress coping strategies from the Mayo Clinic:
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We all intuitively understand the growing and widespread impact of stress on mental health, but stress physiology is just as deleterious.
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Share tips from women’s health research with clients to help them address anxiety disorders and menopause through movement.
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Researchers around the world have mapped out these great workouts and program designs with the most effective results.
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Researchers have focused on three types of periodization training: linear periodization, block periodization and undulating periodization.
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Regular exercise helps inflammation as an effective protector and treatment against chronic diseases associated with low-grade inflammation.
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This column will review the results of several investigative studies on controversial topics related to eccentric training.
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Inflammation is an essential defense system for enhancing survival. Learn how the inflammation process is linked to obesity, diabetes, aging and exercise.
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The relationship between maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max) and cardiometabolic health is well-defined—resistance training can help.
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Water workouts have been employed with older populations and those with elevated injury risk because of the reduced impact on the skeletal system.
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This column presents a research review of what science says about the known performance benefits of resistance training for runners and provides evidence-based suggestions for what types of resistance training programs work best for competitive runners.
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Mitochondria are found in every cell of the human body, except red blood cells. These energy-producing organelles play a key role in exercise performance.
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Endurance athletes have used tapering for years; now there’s evidence that exercise enthusiasts and strength and power athletes can benefit from tapering phases in their resistance training (RT) programs. So, is tapering right for your clients? And when it comes to RT, can less work lead to more success? Here’s what the research tells us.
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Much of the periodization literature to date has centered on the strength outcomes and sports performance of athletes striving to balance the needs of practice, conditioning and competition (Bartolomei et al. 2014). But many recreationally active clients seek to gain muscle size in personal training sessions, and few studies have evaluated whether a periodization model should be used in a hypertrophy-focused resistance training program for these fitness enthusiasts. This article highlights the best research available to help answer an important question: Should you periodize a client’s RT plan to maximize skeletal muscle hypertrophy?
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Resistance Training for older adults is pivotal for thwarting the negative effects of a sedentary lifestyle and aging.
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Muscle cramps can stop athletes in their tracks. Although they usually self-extinguish within seconds or minutes, the abrupt, harsh, involuntary muscle contractions can cause mild-to-severe agony and immobility, often accompanied by knotting of the affected muscle (Minetto et al. 2013). And cramps are common; 50%–60% of healthy people suffer muscle cramps during exercise, sleep or pregnancy or after vigorous physical exertion (Giuriato et al. 2018).
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