Christopher Elliott, travel columnist for the New York Times and for the excellent travel site Tripso, reports that hotel chains have finally figured out that pumping up fitness facilities can help pump up their guest visits. Elliott tells us that Hyatt, for one, has hired Life Fitness, which makes the […]

L.A. Times writer Denise Gellene goes to the beach very early one morning and discovers a klatch of surfers that includes a 50-year-old woman who heads of research for Pfizer’s San Diego lab, a 48-year-old woman who is a biotech entrepreneur, and several others industry insiders whom, she reports, show […]

Geezer admits that he once sat through a 45-minute presentation touting the health benefits of magnets: better balance, reduced pain, increased wealth as precious metals moved quietly in your direction. These days, the only way Geezer would have the patience for such silliness is if he fell asleep, which is, […]

Lots of guys at Geezer’s health club will swear that there’s nothing like a good sweat to cleanse the body of impurities, bad chemicals, and possibly, evil spirits. Geezer only wishes that a good sweat would cleanse the mind of truly lame ideas, such as the conviction that it cleanses […]

Geezer has to admit that Outside magazine’s recent piece described in the lede as “50 things to do before you die” was probably a lot easier to assign to freelancers than a piece on “50 things to do after you’re dead,” would have been, but the package is so all-over-the-map […]

Geezer passes along this information about super nutritional foods with a healthy concern that so much of what we hear about food is influenced by marketing dollars that the best thing we can do is stop reading about food and start growing our own. Inevitably, he is reminded by loved […]

He’s not saying that anyone can do it, but Pat Connelly, coach of the Los Angeles marathon, does believe that a “reasonably serious runner,”–someone who runs four to eight miles four or five times a week– is perfectly capable of getting ready for a 26 mile run in the eleven […]

The Boston Globe describes the ACL–the anterior cruciate ligament — as “the mother of all ligaments in the knee.” When it works properly, the ACL stabilizes the knee and prevents hyperextension. But when it is torn, as, the Globe tells us, happens about 200,000 a year, it does none of […]

For some time now, Geezer has been wondering why he always has so little time, while others, particularly those with friends in high places, seem to have so much time. Now he knows. Thanks to the researching powers of the Internet, Geezer as learned that all of our time is […]

While the Boston Globe reports on the annual New Year’s stampede for health club memberships (January can account for 15 percent of a club’s yearly numbers), Men’s Journal makes the fit life sound simple, presenting the only six exercises we will ever need, allegedly, in the new year and any […]