No. In Geezer’s mind, the ultimate winter workout is not a Winter Adventure Race. A Winter Adventure Race would be, in Geezer’s mind, more like the ultimate bid for near-catastrophic pain and suffering, in the name of good fitness fun. More cautious readers–those whose instinct for survival is still largely […]

Good news for triathletes whose urge for goin has been stifled by a few too many weeks of nasty winter weather. Now the truly driven can drive their bodies to the limit, and place them at considerable risk, in organized competitions that are scheduled in the most bitter weather. In […]

Sports vision training programs may look like (extremely unimaginative) videogames, but their purpose is somewhat higher than the destruction of creatures from another planet. They are intended to improve our ability to hit balls, catch balls, analyze fast moving terrain, and basically win lots of games that we might lose […]

A physicist at Boston University has some surprising news for the 90 million people who will spend much of tomorrow night waiting for commercial breaks in the Super Bowl to get up and  go to the bathroom: the game is not that exciting. At least, it’s not that exciting if […]

The adage "use it or lose it" is not often quoted by victims of stress-related or repetitive motion injuries. That’s because, from their perspective, truer advice would be "use it and lose it." InteliHealth, a marketing website for Aetna that is allegedly stocked with health tips from the Harvard Medical […]

Geezer is still trying to figure out if it is news to anyone on the planet Earth that anger can increase the likelihood of injury. On the off chance that it is (and that this whole thing is a lot more complicated that Geezer thinks it is) Geezer reports on […]

The good news about coffee before exercise is twofold: it appears to delay or prevent post-exercise tiredness by up to 60 percent, and to help the body burn fat faster. The bad news is that it can restrict blood flow to the heart. PreventDisease.com reports on a survey conducted at […]

Not all of Geezer’s tips promise to bring new and never-before-imagined pleasures into your life. Some of them simply encourage a few minor improvements. This two-step exercise, for example, recommended by the lovely Karen Voight of the L.A. Times, is intended to strengthen legs and hips and improve the ability to […]

In news that won’t surprise a few of Geezer’s friends who for years have been working out regularly as much for their heads as for their bodies, research conducted at the University of Texas in Austin suggests that just 30 minutes of exercise can significantly boost the mood of patients […]

Because Geezer is blessed with that truly remarkable sense of rhythm for which middle-aged men of northern European extraction are well known, loved ones have advised him to think carefully before jumping in to the latest exercise trend, which can be summed up in three words: dance, dance, dance. Both […]