It was truly a pleasure doing this interview with Dave and I look forward to working with him on some projects in the future.

Thanks again Dave.

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It was July 2007 and I was on my way to IDEA World Fitness Convention, a fitness conference held in San Diego, when I sat next to an research oncologist from Drexel.  We started talking about the IDEA Convention, the fitness business and how Vertex Fitness could relate what we do with the type of research he was doing. We talked about many thing; how to go about funding a study, what groups are out there that are doing funding, why they were funding these studies to getting the results published and how that helps everyone involved.  It was a very interesting and informative conversation.  I spent the whole week at the conference learning about the fitness business, all while this conversation I had on the plane kept replaying in my head.  So, one of the first thing I did when I got home from the IDEA convention was talked with Vertex Fitness client Dr Paul Gilman, Medical Director at Lankenau Cancer Center.  Dr. Gilman had been a client at Vertex Fitness for some time and he had seen great results.  He had come to us with some low back and hip joint pain and through weeks and months of training with us the pain has slowly subsided.  He and I sat down and talked about the idea of working together and producing a study that could help his patients.  We talked about many things, but soon came back to the way the workouts were helping him, his joint pain had subsided and his low back was feeling a lot better.  He told me how one of the drugs that is commonly prescribed to breast cancer patients causes a lot of joint pain.  He also told me that because of this side effect many patients elect to go off the drug.  Unfortunately, going off the drug is not recommended because it has be shown to keep these women in reemission after a bout with breast cancer.  So we decided to see if doing the type of exercise we do at Vertex Fitness could help elevate some of the joint pain associated with taking these drugs.  If it could help with the join pain, we think women will stay on the drugs longer, stay in reemission longer and have better quality in their life.  

That is how this started.  The following article was published in the October 2010 issue of Main Line Today Magazine.  It talks abut the results of the pilot study and where we might go from here.

Thank you to Dr. Paul Gilman, Oncologist at Lankenau Hospital, Dr. Jessica Katz, Fellow at Lankenau Hospital, all of the patients that were willing to go through this study and Main LIne Today Magazine for publishing this article

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Thanks for checking out Vertex Fitness's segment on the NBC 10 The 10! Show. Watch Dwayne and Kelly, the Owner and Assistant Manager of Vertex Fitness, demonstrate simple exercises you can do without equipment to strengthen your body without equipment. These workouts are easy to learn and allow you and a friend to work out together and have fun while becoming fit!

WEDNESDAY, May 4 (HealthDay News) -- Vigorous exercise offers more of a mood boost than less strenuous exercise, a new study finds.

U.K. researchers compared 11 sedentary people who did moderate and high-intensity exercise. Their mood was assessed before, during, immediately following, and 20 minutes after they did the workouts.

The participants' moods were more negative during and immediately after high-intensity exercise, compared to when they did the less strenuous exercise or no exercise. However, their mood 20 minutes after doing the vigorous workout was much better compared to before the workout.

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THURSDAY, May 5 (HealthDay News) -- You stand a better chance of survival if your heart stops beating while you're in an exercise facility than if you're in another type of indoor public place, a new study found.

Overall, 50 percent of cardiac arrest victims survived if the attack occurred in a public place where some sort of exercise was happening, whereas only 36 percent of those who experienced cardiac arrest in other indoor public places survived. Exercise facilities included places traditionally thought of, such as gyms and fitness clubs, as well as places considered alternative exercise venues, such as bowling alleys and dance studios.

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In the past few years, a fitness craze has been sweeping the industry-the operative word being “craze”.

They call it “Functional Training”.

I have witnessed this craze reach epidemic proportions in the fitness world, to the extent that many people equate this type of training with the field of personal training: in other words, so many trainers are training people this way, people think that so-called Functional Training is what personal training is, and that’s all it is; that they are one in the same.

I’ve had it.

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Hard workout today:

1. MedX Neck Extension

2. MedX Neck Flexion

3. Weighted Chin Up on the Nautilus Omni Multi Exercise (OME)

4. MedX Shoulder Press

5. MedX Leg Press

6. OME Wrist Curl with thick bar attachment

7. OME Wrist Extension with thick bar attachment

Total workout time was around 15 minutes. I’ll do it again in 3 or 4 days. Normally I’d take a little longer, around 20 minutes or so – not because I do more exercises but because I rest longer between sets – but I had to get it done before my next client arrived for his workout.

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"I know I should eat more bananas, better breakfasts, and less junk -- but I just don't want to!"

 

Sound familiar? Yes, if you are among the cluster of athletes who rationalizes that your consumption of "junk food" is OK because you exercise hard, burn off the calories and hence "deserve" a reward.

You undoubtedly know an optimal sports diet includes more fresh fruits, more vegetables, more whole grains and less fast-and-fatty foods, gooey sweets and tempting treats.

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FRIDAY, May 6 (HealthDay News) -- After moving to the United States, immigrant groups trying to fit in tend to choose high-calorie, fatty foods in an attempt to appear more American, a new study finds.

That's one reason why immigrants approach U.S. levels of obesity within 15 years of moving to America, according to research in the June issue of Psychological Science.

Researchers surveyed Asian-American and white college students about embarrassing childhood food memories. Although 68 percent of the Asian-American respondents recalled food-related insecurities, such as awkwardness about using chopsticks, only 27 percent of white respondents recalled any embarrassing food practices.

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MONDAY, May 9 (HealthDay News) -- People with a history of heart attack are at increased risk of suffering another attack or dying after even a week of taking certain types of prescription and over-the-counter painkillers, including Advil, Motrin or Voltarin, a large new study suggests.

Danish researchers analyzed nationwide records of almost 84,000 heart attack survivors and found that those who used certain non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) for one week faced a 45 percent heightened risk of another heart attack. Three months' use raised the risk to 55 percent.

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Dr. Scott Collier was the lead investigator of the study published in the October 2010 Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. The study is part of the growing body of research being conducted at Appalachian State University on the effects of exercise, supplements and health.

Collier looked at changes that occurred to arteries and blood flow following 45 minutes of moderate intensity resistance exercise using machines like those typically found in fitness centers.

He found that the resistance training resulted in as much as a 20 percent decrease in a person’s blood pressure, which is as good as or better than the benefit of taking anti-hypertensive medication. “And exercise has no adverse side effects,” Collier said.

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