I am really excited to say that I joined a new gym – the Summit, NJ YMCA. It is fully equipped with all of the best workout equipment and many machines that I have never seen before. I was introduced to one called the power plate. It is a rather sizeable machine that is located at the front of the gym in the corner – right where everyone can see you. No one ever seems to be on it, so I decided to give it a try. What the machine does is that it vibrates at 30, 40 or 50 ti

Does the way that you feel during exercise motivate you to exercise? Or on the contrary, do you avoid exercise because of the way you feel during your workout? I crave my workouts because of the way I feel, not necessarily during exercise, but certainly afterwards. I love that exercise high! I know that some individuals, however, do not like the experience of exercise and do not get that feel-good after exercise experience. Do you think that the way you feel after your wo

The opening statement in a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association reads, “Pathology is not destiny” (Kuehn, 2015). This statement is based off of a huge prospective study that followed 2,566 healthy, older adults (ages 65 years and up) for around 16 years. While these individuals were a part of this study, they were tested on a variety of cognitive tasks including those that tested short-term memory, episodic memory (i.e., our capacity for remembe