Pumping Irony

The old colonoscopy debate was renewed again last week, when researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York released…

For several weeks now, I’ve been having some trouble with my hearing.

I’m not the kind of guy who regularly visits the doctor, but if I were and if I lived in…

It’s often said of rookies who have graduated from the college hardwood to NBA arenas that they have to wait for the game to “slow down” before they can feel comfortable with a basketball in their hands.

I had an interesting revelation last week. After a long absence, I headed downstairs to the gym after work on Tuesday and dragged myself through about a 45-minute workout, including a stint on my old nemesis, the Elliptical Death Machine, and a trip to The Pit, where I got reacquainted with some heavy (for me) iron.

The other day, I was playing golf with my two older brothers and a friend — all retired — and overheard my senior sibling mention that he had just been in to see his doctor.

I didn’t do much that would count as actual gym-type exercise this week, but I’m going to say it was…

I get a lot of emails each week extolling the virtues of various anti-aging products, but this one was more entertaining than most:

I stumbled upon an interesting theory in the NYT recently that suggests the brain has more influence over our athletic…

The key to maintaining a solid fitness regimen is to not get too disappointed when an entire week goes by and you basically fail to do much of anything that you’ve committed yourself to doing.

It’s a sign of the times, I suppose — and of my employer’s zest for innovation — that I now…

I turned 60 last week, which is something of a milestone. If 50 is sort of the official entrance to…

Well, the walls are built, the patio is expanded, and I’m back in the office today grateful for the opportunity to sit on my duff for a few hours and recover from the weekend’s work. I love puttering around the house, but I gotta build in some time to recuperate.

I imagine that a lot of dads out there spent Father’s Day lounging about the house with the Sunday paper…

Concrete results from a three-hour sledgehammer workout. A lot of forward-thinking trainers and gym rats these days are turning to…

Exercise, like anything else, gets easier the more frequently you do it, so I was rightfully concerned last week when…

Well, last week wasn’t really ideal for making my tennis debut.

Could stress be linked to memory loss?

An old buddy of mine died recently. We’d grown up together, played Little League baseball (he was our first baseman;…