COMPLIMENTARY NUTRITION CONSULTATION
Schedule your session with Jennifer Kaye today
Email: jennifer@informfitness.com or call: 212-755-9895
Sessions can take place over the phone to accommodate busy schedules.
Limited time offer.
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Greetings!
We've had some big changes since launching our first issue of The InFormer.  First, we have a new addition to the InForm Fitness family. In fact, Clayton Cole was so eager to join the family he arrived a few weeks ahead of schedule. He entered the world on May 27 at two pounds and 14 ounces. Mom and son are doing wonderfully, and I'm ecstatic. Also since our last issue, summer arrived with a vengeance. It's time to pack up those bulky winter clothes and show some muscle. Now is a great time--or a great excuse--to start a strength-training program. You don't need to spend a lot of time to look fit and strong in your bathing suit. Just give us 20 to 30 minutes, once a week. Clayton and I hope to see you at the beach. |
InForm Beefs Up to Help
Clients Slim Down
 Jennifer Kaye will forever change your relationship with food. A graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, affiliated with Columbia University, Jenn takes a holistic approach to helping clients achieve their health and life goals. She spends time with the emotional stuff that reveals what's really behind bad eating habits--and identifies positive steps to overcome these issues. We're excited to have her join InForm Fitness as our new nutritional counselor.
Her timing is perfect.
The follow-up to Power of 10 is underway, and it focuses on the second of the three pillars: nutrition. The book explores the emotional side of eating and guides readers through reframing their beliefs about food. Together, Adam and Jenn will help readers experience FOOD FREEDOM--the ability to make smart and delicious food choices, free from the guilt and deprivation often associated with "eating right."
Starting next month, InForm clients can sign up for a personalized, 10-session nutrition program, based on the research and premises of this new book.
In the months ahead, Jenn will provide unconventional nutritional information, along with related, mouth-watering recipes.
Click here or call 212-755-9895 to schedule a free nutritional session with Jenn.
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Fight Sarcopenia
Through Strength Training
My first job out of college required me to staple my business cards to promotional materials. My grandmother offered to help. I gave her the stapler and business cards, but she didn't have the hand strength to staple them. When opening a jar of tomato sauce becomes impossible, we realize that we take our strength for granted.
The reality is that we're all aging. And that natural process makes us susceptible to an obscure, but pervasive, condition called sarcopenia.
Sarcopenia is the slow, age-related loss of skeletal muscle mass, strength and endurance over time. It becomes a factor for those aged 40 and becomes perilous for those 50 and over. Poor balance, weak hand strength, slow gait, slips and falls, and frequent fractures are often viewed as signs of aging. These are actually symptoms of sarcopenia.
Causes of Sarcopenia
As we age, our abillity to metabolize proteins decreases. Protein synthesis enables muscles to repair themselves from injury. Because of this slowed rate of muscle-protein synthesis, muscle mass--specifically, muscle fibers--is lost. Atrophy occurs.
Good nutrition can help slow down muscle loss. Unfortunately, the U.S. Department of Agriculture finds that most people do not consume enough protein.
Decreased hormone levels also play a part in muscle degeneration. Hormones such as human growth hormone, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS), and testosterone decline with age in both men and women.
Movement ignites motor neurons to send signals from the brain to muscles. Simple movement wakes up those motor neurons that supply muscle fibers with nerves. Physical activity cannot prevent sarcopenia, but the lack of physical activity does accelerate it.
What Sarcopenia Isn't
Sarcopenia doesn't start as a disease; it creates a disease state, making you susceptible to illnesses. However, if no measures are taken to slow down sarcopenia, it can become a disease when muscles reach the level of functional impairment or disability.
Common sarcopenia regularly goes undiagnosed, and it is often confused with cachexia and wasting disorders. Wasting is the unintentional loss of both muscle and adipose tissue, resulting primarily from inadequate dietary intake. Cachexia is the accelerated loss of muscle mass seen with chronic inflammation caused by acute disease. Sarcopenia is more dangerous. It can occur when you're free of disease and affects many underlying mechanisms that work together to degenerate muscle mass.
Because there is no universally accepted clinical test to measure and compare muscle mass levels, diagnosing sarcopenia remains difficult.
Delaying Sarcopenia
Treatments like testosterone, human growth hormone, DHEAS or estrogen injections have shown some positive effects on fighting sarcopenia, but the long-term effects are unknown. In some cases, the side effects can adversely affect blood volume, prostate health, lipid profiles and mood, as well as lead to hypertension and hyperglycemia.
The best and safest way to fight sarcopenia is to build muscle via strength training.
With consistent strength training, your body is in a constant state of repair, continuously synthesizing protein. Strength training also helps slow loss of testosterone, human growth hormone and DHEAS.
Exercise and physical activity alone do not slow sarcopenia. In fact, studies show that cardio-only workouts lead to motor unit remodeling, which converts fast-twitch muscle fibers to slow-twitch fibers. This conversion slows muscle mechanics and decreases control and power production.
Strength training is what you need to delay sarcopenia. Our Power of 10 workout offers an efficient, effective way to stay young, healthy and physically strong at any age.
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Featured Trainer:
Cary Berkowitz - Manhattan
 After an extensive six-month apprenticeship under veteran trainer Mike Rogers, Cary Berkowitz joins InForm Fitness Studios as our newest trainer. This intensive process--completed in addition to conventional certification--covers everything from training techniques, equipment design, proper communication and all the subtleties that make what we do look easy.
Well liked by all of his clients, this 22-year-old native of Bethpage, Long Island, is a sports--and especially Yankees--fanatic. His enthusiasm makes him a great addition.
And Cary is spearheading the "green movement" here at InForm Fitness. Upon joining our team, he initiated a recycling program at our Manhattan location, and he's helping create company-wide standards for our other studios.
Watch for details of the environmentally friendly changes coming to InForm.
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Client Spotlight: Midge Keator
After reading a Newsweek article in February 2001, Midge Keator joined InForm Fitness to explore its Power of 10 promise: "more fitness in less time." Now, seven years later, Midge has proudly coined the phrase "geriatric definition." Midge says, "There's no shame in calling yourself geriatric when you're a strong, muscular, defined geriatric."
InForm: What was in that Newsweek article that convinced you to call InForm Fitness?
Midge: I was concerned with the onset of osteoporosis. I learned that strength training can fight against osteoporosis. I'm proud to say there's not a hint of osteoporosis in my future. And I'm 64! My main goal is to stay strong. I'll be doing this well into my 70s.
InForm: When did you first realize that this fitness plan is truly improving your life?
Midge: In 2004, when I was 60, I went to the Iberian peninsula in Spain and walked The Camino, which is just under 800 km, about 498 miles. I walked the entire distance with a full backpack, averaging about 15 miles every day for 30 days. I never would've been able to do it without the "Power of 10." I also have a 1,000-square foot vegetable garden. I can work on it for hours without feeling exhausted. I can't tell you how much pleasure that brings me.
InForm: Are your workouts difficult?
Midge: Of course. Nothing worthwhile is ever easy. But it's only 30 minutes or so and completely safe. Plus, I only have to do it once a week. The key for me is consistency. In seven years, I've hardly missed a week. I average about 45 workouts a year.
InForm: Have you lost weight while training at InForm Fitness?
Midge: No. And losing weight was never one of my exercise goals. I love wine and food too much to worry about the extra 10 pounds on my five-foot-three frame. I also enjoy my adventurous vacations and gardening. I love the fact that my Power of 10 workouts take only half an hour each week, and they allow me to enjoy my life more fully with the rest of my time.
InForm: Has your sex life improved?
Midge: (laughed) Well, I'm more flexible.
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