Answering Any and All Fitness, Nutrition, and Exercise Questions
Maintaining or building muscle mass, during an exercise program, is dependent on protein consumption. You can work as hard as you want, but if protein is not part of your diet then you are sabotaging your results. Protein plays many roles in the body to keep it functioning properly, but for our purposes we will [...]
Five Meals a Day When trying to slim down, it can be dangerous to think of meals in terms of only breakfast, lunch and dinner. Oddly enough, to be successful at losing weight we need to increase our meals each day to five. Kind of crazy, i know, but it will all make sense shortly. [...]
A five-pound brick. A weapon. A bookend. 500 pages of fads, according to Men’s Health editor David Zinczenko. The 4-Hour Body is many things—but a compendium of quick fixes, it is not.
For months I have been reading about cheating and how great the benefits can be. Would cheating really give me the advantage I was looking for? For most of my life I have been a “by the book” kind of guy. Don’t get me wrong I am competitive, very competitive. I like being competitve. Let’s [...]
If you are trying to get back in shape, increase strength, and trying to getting rockin abs this book is for you. Lou Shuler and Alwyn Cosgrove authored this book, two fitness experts that are always on the cutting edge of exercise science and the fitness industry. With their knowledge of the human body and [...]
I was going to post a review of 4-Hour Body this week. Unfortunately, I’m still reading it. And may very well be reading it for the rest of the summer. In the interim, as I work through the epic fitness bible (and count toting it around town as my daily workout), here are some hiking [...]
The reality is women are being marketed all kinds of weight loss and fitness products. Believe it or not, almost 95% of the information out there is DEAD WRONG and created by people who are more interested in swiping your credit card rather than swiping the fat from off your body!
Let’s start by making a distinction between meal replacement shakes and protein shakes before we dive into this too deep. Meal replacement shakes come packaged with a balance of protein, carbohydrates, fats, and more often than not a multi-vitamin. Protein shakes are protein and usually a bunch of artifical stuff to make the protein taste [...]
Pollan’s book “Food Rules” is here to help us read nutrition labels, spot sugar’s sneaky aliases and see why “FDA-approved” doesn’t automatically mean it’s good. Rule #19 – If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t.
First time hearing about foam rolling? Have you seen one before but couldn’t figure out what the person was doing on it? Foam rolling has been gaining popularity among fitness professionals and their clients for many years. It allows you to take care of your soft tissue(the tissue that holds your muscle fibers together) without [...]
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