So far, the greatest danger to the new virtual-support-group-for-fitness website called PEERtrainer is that Geezer thinks it’s a really terrific idea. Geezer’s wife can recite a short list of other really terrific ideas that she has been persuaded to invest in, and that recitation hasn’t been funny for several years […]

The good news, for people planning to hike off the calories of a Thanksgiving dinner, is that GORP offers a handy state-by-state directory of scenic hikes, publishing the mileage of each hike and mentioning a few of each hike’s most pleasing features. The bad news is the math.  Geezer has […]

For news of this magnitude, Geezer wishes he could hold the presses. But of course, there are no presses, just a bunch of microchips and routers and servers and Geezer is afraid to hold any of those things because he might drop them and break something and his teenage children […]

What’s a daily workout worth? In the spirit of the Return-on-Investment-mania that holds the western world its grip, researchers have determined that a daily 30-minute stint of moderate to high activity will probably add between 1.3 and 3.7 years to our lives. The study, conducted by researchers at Erasmus M.C. […]

What if working out were not about building a body that looks good, but about building a body that works well? Would more people do it? Or fewer? Geezer, never one to underestimate the power of vanity, votes for "fewer," but wishes the answer were "more." All those interested in […]

Vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, improves the efficiency with which our bodies absorb calcium. The more calcium we get, the less vitamin D we need. And the less calcium we get, the more vitamin D we need. Geezer has been here before, but now, Science News reports, there are new […]

There are two reasons there are no lift lines on Sweden’s  King’s Trail. 1.) There are no lifts.  And 2.) there are far too few people to stand in line, even there were lifts. Each winter, fewer than 2,000 people hit this sun-bleached cross-country ski trail, which traverses 265 frozen […]

The next time some less-than-imaginative colleague reminds you that Youth Is Wasted on the Young, tell them not to worry– age is simply the result of oxidative stress, otherwise knows as the imbalance between oxidants and antioxidants, in favor of the former, resulting in oxidative damage to molecules such as […]

What’s the ideal time to wait between eating and working out? Chris Carmichael, the fitness answer man for Outside magazine, makes that one sound easy: It depends on what you eat and on how much of it you eat. For a morning workout, Carmichael says, a high carbohydrate breakfast, such […]

One good thing about the growing popularity of Boot Camp style workouts is that they may provide some nicely-paid employment for military vets returning from distant lands.  This Los Angeles-based program, for example, described in the Washington Post costs $235 for 20 weeks. Another benefit, according to "Boot Camp" instructor […]