Tag "body"
The Missing Components of Fitness: Sufficient Sleep and Beneficial Breathing
It’s a new year. You decide you can do this. You know it’s not just an impulse but a lifestyle change. You’re going to go to the gym today …and tomorrow… and at least a few times this week. You’re going to go after work; you’re going to get on the treadmill. You’re going to lift [...]
The Skinny on Fat
People spend a substantial amount of time researching things like cars, houses and schools before deciding on one. Yet eating is something we do multiple times a day, and often we don’t know exactly what we’re eating or educate ourselves before we decide what to eat. The fatty American diet has been the criticized culprit [...]
Identifying Different Body Types: Suiting Fitness to Form
Ever wonder why you don’t see results even though you know you’ve spent hours on the treadmill or elliptical? Why is it that friends or other gym goers can lean down and tone up while you do the same movements, sometimes with more effort, yet you can’t manage to lose weight? You can’t expect a [...]
Weighing In on Weight Cutting
Routine to combat sports, a significant custom in mixed martial arts is overt weight cutting by dehydration and starvation to make weight class before a fight. Though most athletes, coaches, commentators and fans agree that weight-cutting is a necessary skill, the procedure of cutting drastic percentages of weight in a matter of days, hours even, [...]
Keeping Fats in Check: Knowing What Should Go in Your Body
Diets galore, friendly fats, threatening fats, meal plans. Fat has been one of the most misunderstood and condemned food groups, and the stir of diet guidelines and buzzwords can be overwhelming and hard to remember. Amidst the turmoil of different trends and developments in research, there are some fundamental principles on fats and healthy eating. [...]
