The Post-Workout Meal

If I were rewriting Leanness Lifestyle I’d change the post-workout meal part of my book. Sure, I’d mention the “window of opportunity” and the science that says “get your protein in as soon as you can post- or even during-workout” to facilitate recovery, amino acid uptake BUT … I’d also say that for those who…

Resistance Training May Promote Cognitive Skills

Resistance Training May Promote Cognitive Skills In that previous studies have shown that cognitive decline among seniors may be countered by specific exercise training regimens, Teresa Liu-Ambrose, from University of British Columbia (Canada), and colleagues assessed a group of 155 community-dwelling women, ages 65 to 75 years, randomly assigning each to engage in once-weekly or…

Are You A Food Addict?

Food Addiction For the majority of you reading this book, trigger foods are simply problematic indulgences you’ll have to learn to reduce, avoid completely or manage better. For the food addict, trigger foods can kill. Abstinence and elimination of trigger foods is the goal for the food addict. How do you know if you simply…

Dysfunction and Obesity

What follows is a paired-down version of an article penned by Thom Lamb for Elite FTS – http://articles.elitefts.com/articles/training-articles/dysfunction-and-obesity/ The following passage is the crux of what this article is about — To heal the body, we teach it how to squat, lunge, push, pull, twist, and bend. Any movement a human being can do is…

Positive Affirmations

In this video little Jessica has the idea of positive affirmations down to a science! Positive affirmations can be an effective tool to not only keep a more positive frame of reference but also to keep focused on what you want and what is already good and working in your life. This is just cute.…