Fitness Archives - Hudson Valley Longevity Medicine https://www.hvlongevity.com/category/longevity-medicine/fitness/ The Future of Health is Longevity Medicine Tue, 14 Nov 2023 02:26:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 Fitness for Longevity: Body Composition And Recomposition https://www.hvlongevity.com/2023/11/13/fitness-for-longevity-body-composition-and-recomposition/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 02:23:07 +0000 https://www.hvlongevity.com/?p=9617 Body Weight And BMI Have Limitations When Striving For Longevity Health In conventional medicine and the popular press, body weight is a health parameter that is essential for assessing our overall health. Another metric that is universally calculated and placed in the medical chart is the “BMI”, or body mass index. However, these parameters are […]

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]]> Revisiting Zone 2 Training: Why Is Zone 2 Good For Longevity? https://www.hvlongevity.com/2023/09/14/revisiting-zone-2-training-why-is-zone-2-good-for-longevity/ Thu, 14 Sep 2023 21:55:47 +0000 https://www.hvlongevity.com/?p=9584 The Benefits of Zone 2 Training Over High-intensity Interval Training (HIIT) One of our recent exercise blogs focused on cardiorespiratory fitness and the concept of VO2 max and introduced the practice of high-intensity interval training (HIIT). Interval training should be the final element deployed in a well-rounded exercise program, once stability, resistance exercise, and zone […]

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]]> Heart Rate Variability (HRV): A Pulse on Your Health https://www.hvlongevity.com/2023/07/11/heart-rate-variability-hrv-a-pulse-on-your-health/ Tue, 11 Jul 2023 18:22:43 +0000 https://www.hvlongevity.com/?p=9425 Understanding Heart Rate Variability: What is HRV? While heart rate measures the number of heartbeats per minute, heart rate variability, or HRV, measures the fluctuation in time between each heartbeat (in milliseconds). The amount of time between heartbeats isn’t always the same. In reality, the time between heartbeats fluctuates. These subtle fluctuations might seem minor, […]

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]]> What Is VO2 Max? Why Is VO2 Max Important For Longevity? https://www.hvlongevity.com/2023/03/14/what-is-vo2-max-why-is-vo2-max-important-for-longevity/ Tue, 14 Mar 2023 23:27:11 +0000 https://www.hvlongevity.com/?p=8611 How VO2 Max Supports Fitness For Longevity Visit a primary care practitioner for an annual physical exam and you will have an assessment of basic health information like height, weight, and vital signs, including heart rate, blood pressure, and cholesterol, along with perhaps a resting electrocardiogram and basic labs. However, it is well known that […]

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]]> What Is Zone 2 Training And Why Is It Important? https://www.hvlongevity.com/2021/03/01/what-is-zone-2-training-and-why-is-it-important/ Mon, 01 Mar 2021 23:54:49 +0000 https://www.hvlongevity.com/?p=1655 What if I offered you a pill that took your cellular age back ten to fifteen years? This pill also increases mitochondrial numbers (kind of like the number of battery chargers in our cells), increases overall available energy, improves metabolic flexibility, lowers resting heart rate, decreases blood pressure, and improves insulin resistance? This “pill” is […]

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]]> Your Immune System Reboot: Diet & Lifestyle https://www.hvlongevity.com/2021/02/16/your-immune-system-reboot-diet-lifestyle/ Tue, 16 Feb 2021 22:28:32 +0000 https://www.hvlongevity.com/?p=1577 When the coronavirus SARS-co-v2, a devastating communicable disease, descended upon the global population in December 2019, it became clear early on that there was a wide spectrum of illness, ranging from almost nothing to diarrhea, severe pneumonia, stroke, and death. By May of 2020, it became even more clear that there are particular conditions (“comorbidities”) […]

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]]> Polypill vs. Treadmill: Walking Your Way to Optimal Health https://www.hvlongevity.com/2021/02/13/polypill-vs-treadmill-walking-your-way-optimal-health/ Sat, 13 Feb 2021 20:12:43 +0000 https://www.hvlongevity.com/?p=1555 My grandfather used to say “Exercise? I get plenty of exercise – pushing myself back from the dinner table every night!” Of course, he walked almost daily on the Coney Island boardwalk in the middle of the winter and lived well into his 90s, so this was really just a way to get a laugh […]

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]]> Barbells: Do We Need Them? https://www.hvlongevity.com/2021/01/04/barbells-do-we-need-them/ Mon, 04 Jan 2021 21:51:25 +0000 https://www.hvlongevity.com/?p=1229 It’s not enough to walk the dog. That is to say, there are several components to a well-executed exercise plan or prescription. For most of us, walking at 2-3 mph would best be categorized as an “activity of daily living” rather than exercise. One reason to exercise is to improve or maintain cardiorespiratory fitness. The […]

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