If you haven’t seen this already, it seems that the mainstream media is starting to finally catch on to some of the research about meals and metabolism.
The NY Times has a piece entitled “The Claim: Eat Six Small Meals a Day Instead of Three Big Ones” and makes the following revelations:
Six meals, according to some weight-loss books and fad diets, is a more realistic approach.But don’t count on it. As long as total caloric and nutrient intake stays the same, then metabolism, at the end of the day, should stay the same as well. One study that carefully …
The Challenge:
You are to work up to perform 100 pushups (or as many as you can) in 5 minutes. If you do not reach 100 then record how many pushups you can do in 5 min below in the comments. You can use your watch to time it, clock or this online stopwatch here.
Scaling by Ability
Scale to your ability level (such as angled pushups on stairs/ledge or with bodyweight straps or against stairs/bench/low wall/couch) and stop after 5 minutes. Do the best you can and report your …
Here are 25 quick and to-the-point insights about many things I have learned about intermittent fasting (IF) and eating, through my own observations and client experiences…..Enjoy, in no particular order:
IFOC does not work (IF-On-Crap). You will not get the body composition you are looking for if you take that approach.
Eat a bit less on your IF days, don’t IF every day. Take days off, as remember it is supposed to be “intermittent”.
Don’t crash diet while using IF. If you do, you will just set yourself up for a weight loss stall …
Here in the US you can look around and probably find a gym in every town, and sometimes multiple ones within miles of each other. Rows and rows of machines/treadmills, body pump classes all day and enough free weights to go around. But is it working? Are all these gyms helping or hurting? Do you really need the gym or does it need you? I’ll share with you my own journey with gyms and you can see if you can relate to it.
I worked long hours in …
I was riding my mountain bike yesterday and all of the sudden it just came to me. I just started thinking about how many things I’ve learned through my own personal working out (since I was a kid and playing competitive sports) as well as being a trainer over the past several years. So today I just wanted to share some of the things this 36yr old (note this was originally written in 2008) has personally learned about all things health and fitness….in no certain order….
Pushups are the best upper body …
