Doctors MUST Prescribe Exercise For Better Health

re: Doctors MUST Prescribe Exercise For Better Health

trainerboy — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:56:03 GMT

Right on the money! A prescibed program is of the utmost importance. For those who are sedentary, it can be said that with some exceptions that anything is better than nothing. Recent studies show that the benefits of strength training alone provide more benefits than cardio alone. Strength training can provide the benefits of both if applied properly. For sedentary people the focus should be on what is known as "functional training". It's all about the motion that you're performing. A well-balanced program designed by an exercise professional will ensure that exercise will be done safely and effectively. You'll feel and see results much more quickly if you incorporate structure.

re: Doctors MUST Prescribe Exercise For Better Health

healthly lady — Sun, 20 May 2007 18:25:01 GMT

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re: Doctors MUST Prescribe Exercise For Better Health

moises — Mon, 14 May 2007 19:09:26 GMT

I first heard about Al Sears from Dr. Mercola. I bought Sears's book The Doctor's Heart Cure and started doing the PACE program based on two chapters in that book.

Recently, Sears published a new book, devoted to the PACE program, which expands on two chapters in the earlier book.

I make a distinction between the interval training program that Sears recommends and his more general claims about health and exercise.

I enjoy doing his interval training and my heart health has improved. (Thank you, Dr. Mercola!) But I find that Sears overstates his claims again and again. I would caution readers to take his claims that he has answers that others lack, with a grain of (Celtic Sea) salt. Sears appears to have a rather low threshold of evidence for what constitutes "proof."

His latest PACE book appears to be self-published. The binding is quite flimsy and the overall physical quality of the book is poor. I bought the book hoping to keep it as a valuable resource. I would recommend to others that they buy only the e-book, because of the poor quality of the physical item. You are better off printing the book yourself on your home or office printer.

Bottom line: the PACE program is a nice way to improve one's cardiovascular fitness and Sears's book should be owned by anyone seriously interested in interval training. Unfortunately, no one sells a lot of books telling his readers truthfully that there is much that we do not understand and that more research is sorely needed to determine the relative merits of high-intensity interval training and moderate-intensity distance training.

re: Doctors MUST Prescribe Exercise For Better Health

Bob2_203 — Fri, 11 May 2007 19:59:35 GMT

People tend to forget, if they ever knew in the first place, that one of the major benefits of physical movement is keeping the lymph system flowing.

We hear a lot about the heart, blood, and arteries all the time. But there is a complementary system to these components that circulates and filters the blood plasma proteins. This is the lymph system. About the only time it comes up as a topic is when someone succumbs to lymphoma or Hodgkins' Disease, a couple of the more nebulous cancers that frequently come unannounced. The lymph system is a major, major component of the immune system (some would say it is the immune system). This system has no pump and so normally requires regular bodily movement to keep it functioning well.

So, in addition to the added benefits of maintaining/reducing weight, building bone through load bearing activities, and flexing the heart and vascular system, keep in mind that one of the best things about ANY kind of regular motion, aerobic or not, is keeping the wastes down and immunity up by circulating lymph.

re: Doctors MUST Prescribe Exercise For Better Health

Bridestein — Fri, 11 May 2007 15:07:55 GMT

Kettlebells rock! After a year and a half of non-productive cardio and circuit training, I am finally becoming more fit and much stronger in my sixth week of kettlebells. And my joints are no longer stiff. (my instructor is very focused on joint mobility - I don't know if they all are) You get two workouts in one in half the time.
The website www.dragondoor.com is a bit over the top as far as hype goes, but don't let that put you off. There are at least 4 dozen kettlebellers here (pop. 2000) of all ages, sizes and sexes and everyone is achieving amazing results. One woman is 67 years old and she literally could not walk up a flight of stairs and after 4 months or so she is stronger than me.
Plus, it's fun!

re: Doctors MUST Prescribe Exercise For Better Health

Russ Bianchi — Fri, 11 May 2007 13:58:33 GMT

LSD (Long Slow Distance) and Interval regiments remain among the best options. But start gradually and build up over time.

re: Doctors MUST Prescribe Exercise For Better Health

Lloyd Fielder D.C. — Fri, 11 May 2007 12:39:23 GMT

WOW! Great article and what an awesome topic to really delve deeper into. I think it is worth really getting into the semantics and words that we use in all of health and wellness and for most on this board I think using nutritional examples would be good.

Exercise is such a vague term that means many different things to many different people and the use of it can cause not only confusion but actually inhibit a person from taking the next step in health due to emotional distress.

Lets start with the concept of movement. Movement would be analagous to Eating. The opposite of movement is being sedentary and the opposite of eating is starving. When we are sedentary for a majority of our day it is very much like starving physiologically since movement is absolutely a form of nutrition for our nervous system, especially our brain.

As we know from Mercola.com there are different metabolic types and a spectrum of individuality that lay across those types which makes it an individual's responsability to discover what truly feeds them best. The same holds true for movement and while kettle bell and vigorous activity resonate with some, a 20 minute walk might resonate with others. The importance is to simply start to understand the body's massive need for movement and that not moving is actually starving yourself which leads to ill health and disease states.

The additional point is that if the broad term of exercise is similar to that of eating, we know that you can eat and still not be nourished. The same does go for movements that might fall under what we would call exercise. The stimulus and activity levels and especially the forms and repititions while all "theoretically" should be great for a person might be detrimental to any one individual.