Summary: 4 Things you can do to Preserve Muscle Mass When Injured: Don’t reduce total daily calories Increase your total daily protein intake to preserve muscle mass Still continue to resistance train Try these supplements—> Fish oil, Creatine Monohydrate, and HMB (calcium or free form) If you found this video helpful, make sure to check … Read More
5 Step Formula for Ending Yo Yo Dieting for Good!
Summary “Weight regain is generally the rule, with long-term follow up studies indicating that one-third to two-thirds of the weight lost is regained within 1 year and almost all is regained within 5 years.” (1) The issue is never losing the weight, it’s always how to keep the weight off for years on end. The reason why yo yo dieting … Read More
Why Yo Yo Dieting is Making you Fatter
Summary To quote the National Institutes of Health Technology Assessment Conference Panel: “Weight regain is generally the rule, with long-term follow up studies indicating that one-third to two-thirds of the weight lost is regained within 1 year and almost all is regained within 5 years.” (1) The issue is never losing the weight, it’s always how to keep the … Read More
5 Ways to Love Your Body at Every Size and Every Number
DDT Nation…We have a great guest post by our friend from Ireland, Sarah Doyle. Sarah is doing some great work with getting people to love their bodies instead of feeling shame and guilt about not having the aesthetically so called pleasing body image that the mass media constantly portrays as the standard-ideal body image to have. We as coaches get … Read More
Can Training Shut Down your Reproductive System? (i.e. cause no periods / low testosterone in men)
DDT Nation! Today we have a fantastic guest post by our friend Nicola Rinaldi who is an author and has a PhD in computational biology. We’re excited to have her talk about how the reproductive system can shut down in 5 key ways. Specifically for women that lose their periods and for men’s testosterone levels becoming low. We see this a … Read More
Laying Down the Bricks to Building a DYNAMIC Fitness Program: Part 3- The Hierarchy of Beginners Exercise
After reading Part 1 on Building Good Habits and Part II on the Hierarchy of Beginners Nutrition, we hope this is really paving a solid foundation for what it takes the beginner to have success within their fitness journeys. Now that we move into part 3, we want to discuss the hierarchy of beginner’s exercise and what’s most important. Before … Read More
Laying Down the Bricks to Building a DYNAMIC Fitness Program: Part 2- The Hierarchy of Beginners Nutrition
Hopefully Part 1 on Building Good Habits really laid down the foundation for this 3 part series on “Laying Down the Bricks to Building a Dynamic Fitness Program.” Now that we move into part 2, we want to discuss the hierarchy of beginner’s nutrition and what’s most important. Before we delve into this, just keep in mind that consistency … Read More
Laying Down the Bricks to Building a DYNAMIC Fitness Program: Part 1- Building Good Habits
We have a confession to make…when we first started our fitness journey all we wanted was the end result and that was to have chiseled abs, a super hero-comic book looking muscular chest, a back bigger than the state of Texas, and of course the massive guns (arms) for the ladies. We never thought about building good behavioral habits, … Read More