Category: Exercise
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Sendentary Lifestyle is Worse than You Think
Many of the lifestyle and dietary problems the western world is faced with are because of a miserably sedentary lifestyle. The north american condition of doing almost no physical activity and eating an excess of calorie dense food is the reason so many people are overweight, chronically inflamed and dying prematurely from lifestyle disorders like…
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Diet and Exercise Goals
There are general rules we know to be true about the human system when it comes to diet and exercise such as: Eating less calories than you burn will cause weight loss Eating more calories than you burn will cause weight gain Exercise of any kind will produce some measurable benefit than no exercise at…
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How Exercise Affects Diet
There are many different theories and recommendations for nutritional and dietary manipulations that are assumed to enhance the results from your workout. There is pre and post workout nutrition which includes some sort of protein and amino acid cocktail. There is also post workout carbohydrate loading in an effort to get the muscles to supercompensate…
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Workout Consistency
Now that our office and gym is renovated, the holiday hours at the local gym can’t ruin my workouts for the week. It’s pretty nice to have the freedom to workout any time I want without having to work around the busy time at the gym, or holiday hours etc. Consistency with your workout is…
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Exercise For Weight Loss – When Does it Matter?
I was talking to a buddy of mine who competes in bodybuilding the other day. We were discussing contest preparation and how he uses diet and exercise for weight loss. He said he takes about 14-16 weeks to get ready for a show. He starts at around 2200 calories per day and finishes around 1600…