OK, maybe it’s not exactly news that women are more sensitive than men. After all, even Geezer has written about studies showing that women feel pain sooner and more intensely than men do, but he’s never known why. Until now. That’s because we now have a new study in which […]

Now that we’ve got iPods, iPod minis, iPod nanos, and iPod video, there’s no reason to be without music anywhere, ever. Certainly not at the gym, or on the run–although Geezer is still waiting for the aquatic iPod. And because we are ever mindful of Geezer’s earlier reports that music […]

Perhaps it’s just that Geezer hasn’t spent enough time in L.A. Or perhaps Cameron Shayne, creator of the  bizarre and inspirational physical discipline known as Budokon, has spent too much time in L.A. In any case, Geezer finds Shayne’s description of Budokon as “the Porsche of fusion fitness” to be […]

It’s not all that surprising that a recent study 681 men and women who sought treatment for low-back pain found that those who exercised more suffered less. But it is surprising that the exercises that relieved low-back pain best had little to do with the lower back. And it’s even […]

Here’s yet another way people can learn much more about you than you care to tell them: They can watch you order a meal. If you believe the research findings of Illinois-based psychotherapist and addiction expert Cynthia Power, the food you choose says a lot about they way you feel. […]

While it can ever only aspire to the street cred of, say, stickball, the elite, "East Coast" sport of rowing does appear to be winning the cardiovascular systems of at least many middle-aged Democrats. Note, for example, this encouraging piece from the Boston Globe, which claims that rowers don’t really […]

The good news, from the New York Times’ Fitness and Nutrition page, is that research suggests that exercise may keep dementia at bay. The bad news, from the same page, is that that exercise had better not include too many bumps on the head. The paper reports on a study […]

For Geezer, socks are not the kind of thing that lend an advantage to a contest: Socks are the contest. If he can open his top drawer and find two socks that match, that’s a win. But for many, apparently, a new kind of sock is believed to have the […]

Even when Google owns all of the money in the world, it’s going to be very hard to hate the company, because their efforts allow creative hackers to build fabulous things like  Gmaps Pedometer. Here’s how Gmaps Pedometer works: Go there, zoom in to find a map or satellite image […]

Even if this piece about finding the right exercises to suit your age doesn’t tell you something you don’t already know, it’s a helpful effort, and part of a Special Men’s Health Issue in the L.A.Times. Impatient readers can skip the mainbar and scroll down to the listings of specific […]