If you opened my old personal training textbook, you’d find the following recommendations:
These are pretty common to this day. You might also be familiar with the claim that shorter rest intervals of around 30 seconds are better for hypertrophy (muscle growth) because they result in a greater increase in growth hormone, testosterone, and IGF-1––all of which theoretically make a positive contribution to hypertrophy––than longer rest intervals. How accurate is any of this? Read on to find out!
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We all know this one: try to get in at least 10,000 steps per day.
However, such black-or-white, one-size-fits-all solutions are sometimes outdated or unfounded or lack the necessary nuance to be correct or helpful, which is why I’m not usually a fan of them. But is this one bad? Or is there something to it? We have to know how to eat right, train right, and take the right over-the-counter supplements. “BCAAs” stands for “branched-chain amino acids”, which are three of the nine essential amino acids your body needs in order to trigger muscle protein synthesis (MPS), or the creation of new muscle: leucine, isoleucine, and valine.
BCAAs are a very popular supplement, but are they worth your money? There are two main claims regarding BCAAs: 1. BCAAs improve body composition and training performance. 2. BCAAs enhance recovery by reducing delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS). … But do they? Protein is crucial to supplying muscle tissue with the building blocks it needs for its growth. In no particular order:
Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn’t formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them. The start of the year is an exciting time for fitness.
You may be super motivated right now, which is fantastic. There’s no better mental place to get started! But are your habits up to the task? Fat loss and muscle gain are often oversimplified as a matter of calories, protein, and resistance training. While these are fundamental components of the physique development process, fat loss and muscle-building phases require a lot more if you want to get the best results possible. That’s why, when I take on a new client, I don’t plunge them into a deficit or a surplus on Day 1. This approach could do them more harm than good if they didn’t have certain key habits in place, which I help them develop over the initial weeks of coaching. Some of these habits are always a priority, whereas others are more important in a deficit and less so in a surplus, or vice versa. Let’s start with the habits that are always a priority, no matter the phase. |
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