Prudent nutrition plays a key role in promoting hypertrophy, power, and strength when coordinated expertly with resistance training. If we take that concept and adjust…
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Category: Physiology
Kidney and Gall Stones: Can Exercise Help or Hinder?
Regular exercise helps to maintain the proper functioning of every organ in the human body, largely by keeping obesity, cholesterol, and blood pressure in check.…
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How to Stimulate Cellular Renewal to Offset Aging
Our cellular components and bodies inevitably become senescent, or in laymen’s terms – cells grow old. A client must practically find and drink from the…
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Does Leucine Lessen Longevity? Unraveling Mysterious mTOR
The branched-chain amino acid leucine, long considered the kingpin of essentials for muscular growth, recently came under attack by some scientists as potentially lessening one’s…
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How to Support Cellular Health: The Five “R’s”
Yesterday we discussed the alarming impact materials in our environment, our food, our water, our home products can have on our cellular health. Heavy metals…
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How Toxins Can Cause Cellular Damage
Cellular energy is a must for athletic performance. Challenges to cellular energy include medications, work-every-day, and environmental toxins. Health depends on restoring cellular integrity and…
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How Diet Influences Key Hormones and Metabolism
Recently, we discussed the complex interplay of key hormones and metabolism when different physical activity strategies are employed. Additionally what we eat has the power…
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How Exercise and Diet Influence Key Hormones and Metabolism
How physical activity and diet change our personal training clients’ bodies is indeed top of mind in our industry. Low fat, low carbohydrate, high protein,…
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AGEs and Glycation: How One Metabolic Process Can Impair Many Health Outcomes
The process of glycation (or, non-enzyme glycosylation) in the body may be an unfamiliar one to most fitness professionals, but one that impacts each of…
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Grip Strength: The New Biomarker of Longevity and Quality of Life
Business professionals often equate a firm handshake with an individual’s level of confidence. Research now shows that a powerful grip also correlates to longevity. Learn…
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Hormones and Fitness: How Sex Hormones Influence Exercise
The relationship between hormones and fitness is complex and oft-ignored which may impact personal training client motivation and performance. Understanding it may help break through…
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Beat the Heat! How the Body Handles High Temps
As heatwaves sweep across the US, marking the start of summer, I was kindly reminded by the 110+ degree weather outside (In SEATTLE, WA) that…
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