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“Train Smarter as You Age: The Key to Strength, Mobility, and Longevity”
As we age, our bodies change—but too often, people continue training the way they did in their 20s, leading to injuries and setbacks. Whether you’re in your 30s, 50s, or beyond, the key to lifelong fitness is training smarter, not harder. In this blog, we’ll explore why traditional strength training ...
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The Most Important Aspects of Exercise as You Age
As we age, staying active is one of the most important ways to maintain independence, improve quality of life, and keep doing the things we love. However, the approach to exercise at 50, 60, or beyond should look different than it did in our 20s or 30s. Whether you are ...
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Caring for a Loved One While Taking Care of Yourself
Caregiving is a full time job even if your loved one is in a facility. Ellen offers many suggestions for how to avoid burnout, as she was a caregiver for her Mom for ten years.
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The Kangaroo Approach: Retraining the Brain and Body for Strength, Energy, and Mobility
The Kangaroo Approach: Retraining the Brain and Body for Strength, Energy, and Mobility
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Ten Habits That Affect Long Term Health
Ten habits that will affect your long term heath if you don’t change them.
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Weight Lifting for Older Women
I recently read about a study done on postmenopausal women with low bone density that were 58 yrs +. Each woman that participated, performed strength training and high-impact exercises for 8 months. The sessions were held twice a week and were 30 minutes each. The strength training exercises were deadlifts, ...
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A Healthy Lifestyle ~ How To Extend Your Years
Aging is inevitable ~ Begin your Journey into a “Healthy Lifestyle”. To live longer may be a goal of yours, but to extend your healthy lifestyle years is key. The term for this is “HealthSpan” which means the time period of life in which a person is free from ...
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Exercise Decreases The Risk Of Dementia
Exercise Decreases the Risk of Dementia… How does exercise decrease the risk of Dementia? Exercise becomes increasingly important as we age to stay healthy & is specifically important to lower one’s risk for Alzheimer’s and Dementia. N2Shape incorporates both the mind and body in all programs that we offer. Evaluating ...
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An Easy Way to Strengthen Calves
Your first line of defense to prevent injury is to keep your calves strong.
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Posture Apps Do They Help?
Why an app? Posture apps are useful in helping people to correct and have proper posture,” says Dr. Matt Tanneberg, DC, CSCS, who owns and operates Body Check Chiropractic & Sports Rehabilitation in Scottsdale, AZ. He works with elite athletes from the NFL, MLB, NHL, USA Track and Field, NCAA, ...
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Death from “Natural Causes” Usually Means Death from Inactivity
One of the best ways to keep your heart strong to prevent heart attacks and strokes is by keeping your skeletal muscles strong.
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Helping A Person With Dementia During The Christmas Holiday
How to support those with dementia during the holidays
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The High Cost of Physical Inactivity
Fighting to live when all you have go do is exercise.
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Thai Mushroom Curry
Easy and healthy Thai food that you can cook at home in ten minutes.
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Imperfection is OK
I tend to procrastinate because I want to do things perfect which I know will involve more time than I have! It will also make me sit down too long which I don’t like to do. So how can those of us who procrastinate or are perfectionists get more done? ...
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Scooter Riding for an Old Gal
Knee Injury does not put you out of the Game! Knowing I had a knee injury I was determined not to go down this road in the immediate future so I developed and used the Yates Method. This involved strengthening and lengthening, and improving balance, to work on my knees. There’s ...
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Dr Gabe Mirkin on Exercise and Nutrition as Medicine
From a really early age, my father was always telling us to watch what we put into our bodies. He would not allow us to buy cereal containing BHA and BHT as they were cancer-causing, my father believed these two additives were only okay in the packaging of products. My ...
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Exercise Slows Cell Aging
Exercise doesn’t just make you feel younger—it may actually turn off the aging process in your chromosomes. Recent studies have found a link between regular exercise and the lengthening of the telomeres, suggesting that exercise can slow the clock so you live longer. Am I Shrinking? At some point in your 30s, you start to lose muscle mass and function. The cause is age-related sarcopenia or sarcopenia with aging. ...
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Exercise: Bench Jumps
Bench Jump Overs are a great exercise to develop conditioning, power, speed and coordination. It also builds your legs, calves and core muscles with secondary emphasis on the shoulders which stabilizes the upper body as you jump. I love them as they: Elevate my heart rate which also burns calories. ...
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Are Frozen Veggies Healthier Than Fresh?
My Mom served our family frozen vegetables unless they came from our garden. When I started cooking for myself and my son, I vowed that we would only eat and buy fresh as I assumed they had a higher nutritional content. I was wrong! In a paper published in the ...
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Winter Yoga Series
New Year // New You Start your new year right and join us for our winter yoga series. TUESDAYS from 5:15 – 6:15 PM beginning January 9 | 10-week session — $165 No make ups will be offered during this session. 15 person minimum is required. For additional questions, contact ...
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N2SHAPE After Party Invite 2018
You are invited to PARTY with N2SHAPE 8000 Towers Crescent Drive Suite A145, Tysons Corner, VA 22182 Party #1 Sat 12/30 715 to 815 am Special Holiday Boot Camp 815 am to 830 am Off the Wall Stretching 830 to 10 am. After ...
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Why Hire a Personal Trainer?
Hire a Personal Trainer or Go It Alone? Your investment in hiring a personal trainer can bring great returns: Effectiveness. A professional trainer can provide you with the most effective workout for your body type and fitness goals. You can spend less time in the gym and get better results ...
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Aerobic Workouts Crucial for the Mind
We all know that exercise is good for the body and the mind. But what about the brain specifically? Aerobic exercise builds new cells in the hippocampus, which plays a role in short- and long-term memory and can help us navigate and think about the future. Other studies have shown ...
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Small Group Training: Boot Camp & Spinning
Small group training at N2SHAPE is small, personalized, and offered in a supportive and friendly atmosphere. It is for those that want a fitness program with the motivation & expertise of a personal trainer for less money or want to add on additional training sessions with an expert to their ...
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N2Shape Weekly Fitness News #1
Working out brings confidence to be yourself no matter what age! It offers another way to connect with one another on a higher level. Most of all working out with #N2shape has helped me adopt a new lifestyle that makes me fulfilled and happy to be alive! Changing lives one ...
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N2SHAPE’s Policies
N2SHAPE is in the process of updating our policies. We have listed a summary of the most important ones until our policy sheet is complete. We appreciate your cooperation as we are a service business that is based on time. Cancellation rates are as high as 40% in our ...
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High Protein Breakfast Fights Fat
People who eat 35 grams or more of protein at breakfast have been shown to reduce their food intake by 400 calories/day, are less hungry and are less prone to an increase in body fat. I personally make a shake every morning so that I get my 35+ grams of ...
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