Health and fitness do not need to be complicated. There are reasons and explanations for every successful result of, or failed attempt at, a fitness goal. Muscle grows for a reason. Your body stores fat for a reason. A healthy diet makes you feel better for a reason. It’s The Science of Fitness.
Nutrition is a critical factor in decreasing body fat, gaining muscle mass, maintaining weight or just feeling good. Every biological process requires fuel and the quality of that fuel is everything. Apply the science of fitness to your nutritional choices.
Training • 3rd Apr, 22 • Comment
Training a muscle is training a muscle. You can maintain and keep the muscle that you have, increase muscle mass, or lose it. Muscle responds to stimuli, whether you are maintaining or gaining.
The concept of…
Training • 3rd Apr, 22 • Comment
Training without direction will most likely result in frustration when you start hitting the gym. Even for workout veterans, if you try to make a change or addition to your workout routine, you have to…
Training • 13th Feb, 22 • Comment
Training to failure: attempting to lift a certain weight a certain number of targeted repetitions, so that the last rep isn't possible. It is a widely debated topic.
The support for it:
Training to failure has worked for…
Motivation • 3rd Apr, 22 • Comment
The benefits of fitness go on and on, but you need consistency and discipline to stick with a routine long enough to reap those benefits. That’s where technology can help.
The right app can act as…
Motivation • 3rd Apr, 22 • Comment
Two things are certain:
If you don’t know where you are going, you can’t get there.
If you don’t start, you can’t get there, either.
This is where many fitness plans struggle. Many start (and good on ‘ya,…
Nutrition • 6th Jul, 22 • Comment
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There are plenty of studies in mice linking processed foods to problems such as obesity and intestinal inflammation.
But mice are not people, as critics of such studies are quick to point out.
In humans, researchers have reported associations between…
Nutrition • 3rd Apr, 22 • Comment
Eat to live. Food is the fuel for everything you do. Nutrition not only effects physical function, but plays a role in emotional function as well. Some foods offer high nutritional value, while others offer nothing but empty…
Nutrition • 23rd Feb, 22 • Comment
Let's jump right in:
You can limit your diet to only foods that are high in fat and not gain body fat (or you could even lose body fat). You can remove fat from your diet all together and still…
Wellness • 12th Mar, 22 • Comment
Exercise: 7 benefits of regular physical activity
You know exercise is good for you, but do you know how good? From boosting your mood to improving your sex life, find out how exercise can improve your…
Wellness • 3rd Jun, 21 • Comment
By Danielle Underwood
I recently gave birth to a beautiful, 8 lb 1 oz baby boy. This was my first pregnancy so needless to say, everything that has and is happening to my body is completely…
Wellness • 4th Feb, 21 • Comment
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As a clinical psychologist and sleep researcher at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, Kelly Glazer Baron frequently heard complaints from aggrieved patients about exercise. They would work out, they told her, sometimes…
Lifestyle • 3rd Apr, 22 • Comment
BY TANNER GARRITY
A user with the account name u/ChrisVIII posed a fascinating prompt in the r/AskReddit subreddit over the weekend. He wrote: “What improved your quality of life so much, you wish you…
Lifestyle • 4th Jan, 22 • Comment
Don't begin your health and fitness journey because you want to like yourself more. Begin the journey because you like yourself enough.
Your emotional well-being is the most important fitness factor. We get healthy and fit because we want…