Men’s Health does what it does best in this “x number of tips to y” advice column. This one, 6 keys to efficient running, is short, sweet, and gets everything right,  Here are the tips: Run tall Relax Breathe right Land on the mid-foot Run softly Well, it gets almost […]

The Boston Globe’s funniest and best-read (well, in Geezer’s house, anyway) columnist Alex Beam reports that squash is the new racquetball, which had been the new squash for a couple of unfortunate decades. Beam notes that the sport so exclusive to the Ivy League and so exhausting that it was […]

First there were the cheesy exercise videos that are gathering dust in the basement, then there were cheesy cable TV shows with hosts who were too buff to be credible. Now comes online streaming video, from companies such as SlimTree.com, which offers a Kung Fu style workout and an Military […]

Geezer remembers the days when there were two kinds of socks: white socks and dark socks, otherwise known as gym socks and dress socks. As this piece in the L.A Times reports, times have changed. Today we have socks for running, socks for hunting, socks for snowboarding and socks for […]

No, it’s not free, but $19 a year is not a lot to pay for reliable information about the effectiveness and dangers, of 14,000 natural supplements. The database, compiled by the Therapeutic Research Center in Stockton, California and sold by Consumer Reports, gets high praise in this piece in the […]

In Geezer’s world, ping-pong was a game played in rec rooms by high school kids who wanted to optimize the usefulness of their one friend, and it was generally understood that the winners of ping-pong tournaments were the losers of Having a Life. The Los Angeles Times reports that things […]

Geezer wants to know if the fact that France has approximately 25,000 people who enjoy paragliding is a recommendation of the sport or a condemnation. The New York Times seems to cite it as evidence that the U.S. is, once again, behind the times. Still, the paper sees hope for […]

Stretching, Geezer has read, is not what it used to be. It used to prevent pulled muscles; now it pulls muscles.  What a completely confused amateur athlete to do?  The short answer is: It’s complicated. The longer answer is: It’s still complicated, but if you want to see seven exercises […]

Word around diet land has it that yo-yo dieting–taking it off, putting it on, taking it off, putting it on–is generally bad for health. Could that be true?  Some inquisitive reader has put that question to New York Times Health Answer Person C. Claiborne Ray, who tells us to chill. […]

Finding new ways to recycle newspaper content online is the Holy Grail of increasingly depressed editors at increasing depressed daily papers. For this effort: a colorful 12-month calendar of eating and fitness tips, the London Times gets an A–for awesome. Make it a WA, for wicked awesome, as they say […]