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Eating for Weight Loss Over The Holidays

December 16, 2011

Eating during the holidays is usually associated with weight gain, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be that way. You should be able to indulge in big holiday dinners as long as you plan your eating around that dinner accordingly. As we always say, every up needs a down. So if you’re planning on having [...]

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When Does Bodyweight Matter?

December 14, 2011

There are many different metrics you can use to measure a change in your body shape and composition. The short list includes, bodyweight, bodyfat %, and the circumference of your waist, hips, and shoulders. All of these measurements can be made at home relatively easily with a decent degree of accuracy. All you need is [...]

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How Much Protein for Weight Loss

December 7, 2011

Losing weight requires a caloric deficit. You can choose to create that deficit with a combination of caloric restriction below your daily energy requirement as well as raising your daily calorie burn with a combination of cardio and weight training. These are the basics and they don’t change, and it doesn’t really need to get [...]

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How Do Muscles Grow? Uniform versus Non-Uniform Muscle Growth

November 30, 2011

Working out with weights causes muscles to adapt and grow, this is nothing new. The pattern of muscle growth however, is not as obvious as we might have thought. Most people think you train a muscle and the entire muscle simply gets bigger in a uniform and evenly spread out way…but this is a false [...]

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Long Term Adaptations To Weight Loss – Oct 2011 New Research

November 23, 2011

Well all know someone who has lost weight and put it back on…and then some. We hear phrases that 99% of people fail on a diet and put the weight back on. This however isn’t a scientific claim as much as it is an assumption. Weight loss isn’t a straight line but rather a series [...]

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Diet Records: Research Shows 80% Of People Lie About Food During Studies

November 16, 2011

The diet and fitness industry makes claims on the effects of workouts, diets, supplements and the combination of the three. The better commentators even quote published research, and the best of them actually read the full research papers and make an honest effort to give an accurate account of what they’ve read. This however is [...]

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