MAKE NO BONES ABOUT IT, FOR OPTIMUM BONE MINERAL DENSITY, "CLIMB, LIFT & EAT WELL..."

To increase bone mineral density, both men and women need to engage in progressive strength using challenging yet safe external loads. If not, they will continue experience a decline in bone health, cardiovascular health, cognitive healt,h and more.  Both men and women need to learn to correctly perform compound, multi-joint anaerobic exercises and engage in on your feet cardiovascular exercise such as using a revolving stair machine, climbing actual stairs, hills, or sidewalks on a incline. The popularity of stationary bikes and spending inordinate amounts of time sitting and lying down on mats, particularly in the United States, is a major reason for this serious decline in the health of so many middle-aged individuals. Millennials are not immune. They begin losing bone mineral density and muscle at age 30 unless they start exercising properly and progressively.

My husband and I, now both 53, have engaged in a comprehensive stair-climbing and weight-lifting regimen for the last 25 years.  Unlike so many other Americans, we have never bought into the hype constantly being spewed across multi-media platforms which often leads people to engage in marginally effective, if effective at all, highly-publicized modalities.  Popular does not necessarily equal what is optimum. (It rarely does.)  We believe in the evidence-based science of how the human body responds to external stimuli. I never use the words lose weight on my website or when I give instructional or motivational seminars, but instead I discuss the following health-driven goals:

Decrease excess body fat, increase muscle, bone mineral density, improve organ function, improve cognitive health, etc. As always, a healthy, balanced plant-based whole foods meal plan as approved by your trusted board-certified physician is key in order to achieve optimum health and fitness for life. 

"CLIMB, LIFT & EAT WELL..."