Regular exercise lessens the likelihood of heart disease, lowers blood pressure, reduces the risk of cancer, builds bones, lifts your spirits, keeps your brain sharp, and can add years to your life. So why not exercise? Some people still equate exercise with the sweat and tedium of gym class. Others think they don’t have time, or it’s too expensive, or [...]
Prince Deese Prince Deese, an All American Wrestler, a Hall of Fame Football Player, and a State Champion Body Builder, is a certified personal trainer and strength conditioning specialist. Prince Deese and Gina Deese own A.C.T. by Deese, a Fitness & Training Center in Greensboro, NC. Exercise, following hip replacement, is a primary key toward a positive post-surgery result. Early [...]
North Carolina ranks 17th in the nation in overall obesity rates with 29.6 percent of our adult population classified as obese. Unfortunately, there are no reliable, established state statistics for adult activity levels, which is a large part of the problem according to recent studies out of Stanford University which established inactivity as the primary culprit causing obesity in America. [...]
Prince Deese Prince Deese, an All American Wrestler, a Hall of Fame Football Player, and a State Champion Body Builder, is a certified personal trainer and strength conditioning specialist. Prince Deese and Gina Deese own A.C.T. by Deese, a Fitness & Training Center in Greensboro, NC. The man’s name is James Baker. He’s a 69- year-old Greensboro resident who was [...]
Prince Deese Prince Deese, an All American Wrestler, a Hall of Fame Football Player, and a State Champion Body Builder, is a certified personal trainer and strength conditioning specialist. Prince Deese and Gina Deese own A.C.T. by Deese, a Fitness & Training Center in Greensboro, NC. A recent news survey has reported that 57 percent of active seniors seek some [...]
Prince Deese Prince Deese, an All American Wrestler, a Hall of Fame Football Player, and a State Champion Body Builder, is a certified personal trainer and strength conditioning specialist. Prince Deese and Gina Deese own A.C.T. by Deese, a Fitness & Training Center in Greensboro, NC. A recent NBC News report shows that 29 million American adults suffer from [...]
Prince Deese Prince Deese, an All American Wrestler, a Hall of Fame Football Player, and a State Champion Body Builder, is a certified personal trainer and strength conditioning specialist. Prince Deese and Gina Deese own A.C.T. by Deese, a Fitness & Training Center in Greensboro, NC. According to the American Parkinson’s Disease Association, there are about 1.5 million people in [...]
Prince Deese Prince Deese, an All American Wrestler, a Hall of Fame Football Player, and a State Champion Body Builder, is a certified personal trainer and strength conditioning specialist. Prince Deese and Gina Deese own A.C.T. by Deese, a Fitness & Training Center in Greensboro, NC. His name is James Whittaker…better known as “Oscar” to close friends and associates. Two [...]
Hundreds of seniors participate in the Seniors Games. Randy Surratt spurts ahead in High Point Senior Games’ 1500M run. Jeannie Pegram concentrates on billiards. Christine Headen smiles.(She just made a strike.) Golden Girls – Dot Sowerby, left and Terry Hamilton, two of Greensboro’s golden girls, recently captured silver medals at the National Senior Games in Cleveland. Dot Sowerby, 80, finished [...]
The first clinical trial to examine the effects of weight loss on mobility in overweight, older adults is underway in Winston-Salem as a collaborative project between health researchers at Wake Forest University (WFU) and the YMCA of Northwest North Carolina. The five-year research study, titled the Cooperative Lifestyle Intervention Program (CLIP-II) and supported by the National Heart and Lung Institute [...]
