 Free stock photo from Pexels.com. To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise. Wouldn’t it be cool to eat more and get to maintain your weight instead of gaining?
If you enjoy food, I bet the answer is yes. But is it possible? Also yes… but there are some myths regarding what’s truly effective. Let’s get this out of the way from the get-go: The only way to increase your maintenance calories is to induce the body to burn more, so that it will require a greater caloric intake to match the extra expenditure. In this article, I’m going to cover three facts and two myths about how you can increase your maintenance calories.
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 Free stock photo from Pexels.com. The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy. Should you worry about holiday season weight gain?
When it comes to the festive season, the online fitness community seems to be divided into two camps: the Fearmongers and the Relaxers. The Fearmongers will recommend you diet and exercise your way through Christmas, as if eating Christmas pudding is going to give you the plague or, worse, some weight gain. (Gasp!) The Relaxers will tell you that it’s only a couple of days a year, so you can relax and have some higher-calorie food without blowing a gasket. In this article, I’m going to cover some scientific research on weight gain over the winter holidays, its impact on the your fitness goals, and my own perspective, having coached others since 2019.  Free stock photo from Pexels.com. If you’re totally sedentary and eat 2,500 calories a day, don’t instantly go to 1,200 calories and hours of aerobics––your weight loss will be sudden and violent, but also fleeting. How likely is it that you’ll lose muscle during a fat loss diet?
According to some people in the more fear-mongering corners of the internet, it’s pretty much inevitable. In fact, as soon as your workout performance drops by a couple of reps… Gasp! You’re losing muscle. For this reason, some will even say you shouldn’t go into a deficit at all if you hope to gain muscle, even when you carry excess body fat. I disagree with these extreme positions. So let’s delve into what the research seems to show and my six practical tips to give yourself the greatest chances of minimising muscle loss and maximising growth.  [Weight loss] changes your philosophy of life because you recognize that you are capable of using your mind to change your body. We all have certain body parts that never seem to get quite as lean as the rest, no matter how hard we diet: our so-called “stubborn fat areas”.
Why does this happen? How can you get rid of this stubborn fat? Is it even possible? In order to get to the bottom of your stubborn fat problem, first you need to understand what determines where you store fat, or adipose tissue, and how fast you can lose it.  Free stock photo from Pexels.com. 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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