Mabel Robles - NASM Expert

Bio

Mabel Robles is the Fitness Content Development Coordinator for the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM). Mabel helps to develop and manage education content, from courses to publication items. She is responsible for quality assurance as a reviewer of courses and articles developed both internally and externally. She has worked in the health and fitness industry as an occupational and physical therapist’s assistant, a personal trainer, and an educator.

Education:
• MS: Exercise Science and Health Promotion, California University of Pennsylvania
• BS: Exercise Science and Sports Medicine/Minor: Psychology, California Lutheran University

Certifications:
• NASM CPT, CES, PES
• NASE – Certification in Speed and Explosion

Specialties:

  • sports medicine

Affiliation:

  • National Academy of Sports Medicine

Location:

Activity

  • Sharecare News
    Sharecare News posted a story about Sports Medicine:

    TUESDAY, June 11 (HealthDay News) -- Sophisticated scans reveal that soccer players who head the ball a lot show changes in the white matter of their brain that mirror those seen in traumatic head injuries.

    In addition, they face a higher risk of developing thinking and memory problems, t...Full Article

  • Sharecare News
    Sharecare News posted a story about Sports Medicine:

    WEDNESDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) -- Youth football players are much more likely to suffer concussions in games than during practice, and older players have a much higher risk of concussion than younger players, a new study finds.

    Researchers looked at nearly 500 players, aged 8 to 12, o...Full Article

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  • Sharecare News
    Sharecare News posted a story about Sports Medicine:

    FRIDAY, April 19 (HealthDay News) -- Young athletes who train intensely for one sport are at greatly increased risk for severe overuse injuries such as stress fractures, a new study finds.

    For example, children and teens who play a sport for more hours per week than their age -- such as a...Full Article

  • Sharecare News
    Sharecare News posted a story about Sports Medicine:

    FRIDAY, Dec. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Olympic medal winners live longer than people in the general population, but athletes who do high- or moderate-intensity sports have no survival advantage over those who do low-intensity activities such as golf, according to two new studies.

    In one stud...Full Article

  • Sharecare News
    Sharecare News posted a story about Sports Medicine:

    MONDAY, Nov. 26 (HealthDay News) -- A new study suggests it would be wildly expensive -- more than $10 million per life saved -- to require American high school and college athletes to undergo heart testing to weed out those at risk for fatal cardiac complications from playing sports.

    Th...Full Article

  • Sharecare News
    Sharecare News posted a story about Sports Medicine:

    MONDAY, Nov. 26 (HealthDay News) -- For middle-aged adults trying to protect their knee health, it may be best to avoid extreme ends of the exercise spectrum, such as too much high-impact exercise or too little physical activity, researchers have found.

    While p...Full Article

  • Sharecare News
    Sharecare News posted a story about Sports Medicine:

    FRIDAY, Oct. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Standards used to diagnose concussion in college athletes are inconsistent and require clearer definitions and better tools to make the diagnosis, researchers report.

    Their five-year study included 450 male and female athletes who played on football and...Full Article

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  • Mabel Robles - NASM Expert

    Incorporating new physical activities after achieving a weight loss goal can be challenging. Typically, this means major changes in both diet and activity level. Often times, some individuals will fail to make these changes permanent and the weight or body fat is regained. Others will have no

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  • Mabel Robles - NASM Expert

    Incorporating new physical activities after achieving a weight loss goal can be challenging. Typically, this means major changes in both diet and activity level. Often times, some individuals will fail to make these changes permanent and the weight or body fat is regained. Others will have no

    ...Full Post
  • Mabel Robles - NASM Expert
    What kinds of aerobic exercises can I perform?

    The word "aerobic" literally means with oxygen and any exercise that is low to moderate in intensity, lasting longer than 10 minutes is going to be aerobic.  There are many choices of aerobic activity such as brisk walking, marching in place, walking up and down a flight of stairs, or even just sitting and standing

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  • Jeff Arnold
    Hi Mabel- nice to meet you.
  • Jeff Arnold
    Hi Mabel - welcome to Sharecare!