Pre and post workout nutrition is simple: one is fuel and the other one is repair. You eat before your workout to have the extra energy to push yourself during a training session. You eat afterwards to repair the damage done to your muscles, help them rebuild faster and grow. Depending on your goals, you…
If you’re a vegetarian you need to provide your body with foods that contain the essential amino acids that are used as building blocks of protein in the body. Every time you eat food of any kind your body breaks it down into three basic groups: A) Useful stuff B) Energy C) Waste. Useful stuff…
Imagine never having to worry about your fitness ever again. Never having to worry about being able to physically do the things you want to do each day, never having to worry about putting weight on as you age, never having to worry about losing mobility and capability over time. And all of that without…
We’re used to qualifying workouts and, indeed, exercises, as Resistance, Cardio or Aerobic. This broad categorization is fine when we need a quick way to choose the type of exercise we are going to do but really, once we get down to it and look at things in more detail the distinctions stop being so…
All food has a set energy value which determines the amount of energy it can give us once consumed. How much energy you need in order to function is determined partly by your gender and age but mostly it’s determined by your lifestyle. The more active your lifestyle is the higher your energy needs are…
The brain is the body’s most complex organ.[1] It interprets sensations, regulates emotions, controls movement and modulates behavior. It is therefore key in exercise in almost every way you can imagine: from a biomechanical point of view where signals are sent by the brain so the body can move, from a neuronal point of view…
The debate of whether or not it’s good to train on an empty stomach also represents the divide between what science can tell us about fitness and what tradition accepts as being ‘true’. To answer the question of whether it’s possible to train on an empty stomach we need to understand that every time our…
Nearly 80% of our body is made up of water at birth. When something in our biological make up takes up so much volume the chances are it plays a critical role in our neurobiology which also means it affects every aspect of our fitness. By the time we reach maturity water levels have stabilized…
The brain is the body’s most complex organ.[1] Part of that complexity arises from its unique architecture and function and part of it is the result of the complex bi-directional list of interactions that go on all the time between the brain and the body and the external world. While firmly locked inside the protective…
Food is not just fuel for the body. It also affects our minds and brings us a certain amount of pleasure, and that pleasure has a physical response. Whenever we eat something we really like, for example a slice of chocolate cake, our brain releases pleasure hormones like dopamine. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that helps…
