Happy June!
Here’s our monthly newsletter to share some health and wellness knowledge, as well as some other random interesting stuff.
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For Your Body
1. The new Japanese Walking Protocol decreases lifestyle related diseases and improves maximal aerobic power and muscle strength.
2. This is a common kettlebell mistake and how to correct it
3. This study found that exercise intensity was more important than exercise volume when it comes to working out for longevity. "The more uncomfortable things you voluntarily do, the less involuntary suffering you experience"
4. This is also why you don’t have to lift heavy to make gains. Lifting lighter weights can be just as effective…if done to fatigue and with a high level of intensity.
5. EXERCISE OF THE MONTH: Single Leg Deadlift
One of the best, and most difficult, exercises to maintain movement health
Creates a ton of stability and posterior chain strength
If you have a history of hamstring or knee issues, you should be doing this
For Your Mind
6. Video games can be dangerous when they become an unhealthy addiction. But when used in moderation, studies show they can have great benefits.
7. School’s out for summer! Let those academic ambitions drift away and let your kids daydreaming and imaginations run wild.
8. Here are 5 positive effects of daydreaming. And a 6th one is that daydreaming can help you learn new tasks.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” -Albert Einstein
For Your Health
9. Researchers turn skin cells into nerve cells. This could be a breakthrough for nervous system diseases.
10. We know about total hip and knee replacements, but now there's a total heart replacement!?!?
11. This nutrition professor believes exercise is more important than diet.
12. In our last newsletter we discussed the 4 common causes of death. Here is an article on how to prevent them.
For Our Community
12. French Broad Brewery is back open. Go on Thursday. Get some good pizza, beer, and listen to the best Grateful Dead cover band in town - Jerry’s Dead.
13. The Honey Fest (6/8/25) - “At the festival, you’ll enjoy live music, food trucks, and vendors showcasing the unique flavors of honey and other artisanal goods. But that’s not all: you’ll also be supporting a great cause, as proceeds from the festival will go towards saving pollinators and our planet.”
14. Support local artists and check out Asheville Art in the Park the last 3 Saturday’s in June.
15. Aaron hung out and provided free PT Consultations at Inspire Personal Training in North Asheville. Inspire is an awesome place and Keith has built a wonderful community there. Here’s 2 free workout sessions. Give it a try.
Etc.
16. When you accidentally hit the furniture with your pinkie toe…
17. This sounds promising…Scientists create an “artificial leaf uses sunlight to convert carbon dioxide into carbon-carbon molecules, the building blocks of useful chemicals, including liquid fuel and plastics.” #Science
18. Funding scientific research isn’t only important for advances like these, but it’s good for our economy too. “For every $1 spent on research, $2.46 is generated in economic activity”.
19. This is a good argument against trusting your gut (comedy).
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Stay healthy,
Gaelyn and Aaron
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