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Muscle is typically most responsible for achieving your aesthetic goals of being toned, muscular, etc
This is a short post that the title mostly explains. Some people fixate on their weight when pursuing a fitness goal but if one has a certain aesthetic look he or she is after, that person will probably have more…
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Glamour: How Pictures/Videos can Make us Want Things
Insights for leveraging the power of glamour to improve self-awareness and avoid its dangerous ability to pull one away from intrinsic goals and objectives.
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Post-Workout nutrition — How to limit unintentional muscle loss
You’ve probably heard or read that you should “drink protein after a workout.” We’ve found this recommendation to work but do you know why? What happens to your body after a workout After a workout your body has less energy…
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Biofeedback: How to use your body’s symptoms to conquer digestion, skin, & energy challenges
What is biofeedback? feedback from your body that can be used to make decisions and actions for optimizing your health (physical, emotional, etc). We’ve observed that a primary source of biofeedback comes from what we eat and that our diets…
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Use Pre-Workout Carbs to optimize workouts and fat-burning
Note: This information is for when you lift weights! Not before a cardio session. One of our clients was on an extremely low-carb diet and did intermittent fasting throughout the week(M-F). For those who don’t know what intermittent fasting is,…
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Pre-workout protein to optimize muscle growth and fat loss
We find the case for pre-workout protein is pretty simple. Research shows that pre-workout protein helps in building more muscle because it spikes plasma amino acid levels (and thus protein synthesis rates) before training (1). Spiked plasma amino acid levels…
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Post-workout carbs: surprisingly not essential
It turns out that post-workout carbs aren’t as important as post-workout protein. Remember: The goal of post-workout nutrition is to minimize post-workout muscle breakdown and maximize protein synthesis(building muscle). In the post-workout protein post, you learned that you can do this by spiking…
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Use Post workout protein to maximize lean muscle growth
Maybe you’re like us and have had the feeling that you are supposed to eat a meal after working out. One of us usually got hungry ~30 minutes after working out and would sometimes get really tired after hitting the…
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