Strong Life Personal Training

05/10/2024

Sad news to report today. Strong Life Personal Training is closing. The last day of operations will be Monday, May 20th.

We opened in Barrington in January of 2020 ... and welll, we all know what happened soon after that. The pandemic temporarily closed us down before we even had a chance to get rolling, and the craziness of the next 2+ years caused so much destruction and impeded our ability to operate and to build a business, that we simply couldn't recover. Life ... and business, doesn't always go as planned.

I want to thank the loyal clients that stuck with us until the end and are just as disappointed to see this come to an end. Thanks also to all the followers of this page

To all my friends and colleagues from around the country, keep up the good fight!

03/14/2024

Here you go ladies! Women who strength train live longer!

Strength training is good for everyone. But women who train regularly, reduce their risk of death from heart disease significantly. And here are 5 other hidden benefits of building muscle.

02/16/2024

Wow! An excellent summary of building strength and muscle as you age ... and what you must do to achieve this.

In short:

1) Work hard in the gym

2) Eat plenty of protein

3) Get adequate sleep, rest and recovery.

Strength can be increased whatever the age, but the degree of progress and the ultimate endpoint will lessen with age. Here's what that means for you.

01/22/2024

Powerful stuff!

01/17/2024

Taking care of your body involves several different aspects such as proper exercise, healthy eating, adequate sleep, control of stress level, and avoidance of unhealthy behaviors such as smoking or excessive alcohol consumption.

12/08/2023

"Strength training is the most effective weapon against sarcopenia, the degradation of muscle mass and function that begins in our 30s and speeds up after 50.

Beyond that, strength training also helps maintain healthy bone density, is linked with fewer falls and fractures, and improves insulin sensitivity and glucose metabolism. Recent research has even shown that strength training has a protective effect against the risk of dementia."

NEXT AVENUE This article is reprinted by permission from NextAvenue.org. In gyms, basements and spare bedrooms across the country, weights are clanking, pulses are pounding, muscles are straining. Millions of people, many of them over 50, are pumping iron, stretching heavy-duty resistance bands, doi...

12/04/2023

Lifting weights/strength training benefits you no matter your age!

The new study of resistance exercise and the elderly found that even people in their 80s and 90s — who had never lifted weights before — showed significant gains

12/01/2023

In the early 1970's, Nautilus equipment came to market and revolutionized the way people exercise. At the time, people believed they needed to perform 3 distinct different types of exercise for full-body fitness and health. These were, strength training for muscle strength and conditioning, aerobic exercise for cardiovascular health and fitness, and stretching for joint and muscle flexibility enhancement. People would literally spend multiple hours each week performing all this exercise.

However, the Nautilus company, and it's founder Arthur Jones, said the conventional mindset and approach was both unnecessary and inefficient. Nautilus promoted their belief that strength training correctly would simultaneously produce muscle strength and conditioning, cardiovascular fitness and health, and flexibility all from the same program and eliminate the need to perform three separate types of exercise.

Today, scientific research has repeatedly demonstrated that Nautilus' claims were in fact correct. The research shows strength training not only produces muscle strength, cardiovascular fitness and health, and flexibility, many studies indicate strength training produces cardiovascular fitness and health and flexibility more effectively than aerobic exercise and stretching programs.

This is great news for busy, time-pressured individuals! You can achieve well-rounded full-body health and fitness from a single exercise program -- strength training!

(1) Background: Stretching is known to improve range of motion (ROM), and evidence has suggested that strength training (ST) is effective too. However, it is unclear whether its efficacy is comparable to stretching. The goal was to systematically review and meta-analyze randomized controlled trials....

11/16/2023

11/13/2023

The study heading says it all. Strength training is more effective than aerobic exercise at improving body composition and glycemic control (blood sugar level).

We can add this study to the ever growing list of studies that show that strength training is better at . . . well, almost everything, than other types of exercise (e.g., reducing cardiovascular disease risk, increasing longevity, slowing/reversing aging, improving cognitive/brain health, increasing strength, preserving/restoring muscle mass, etc.).

When can we start saying "I told you so"? Just asking.

This study was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH; R01DK081371).