Category: Fitness and Health
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Increasing Muscle Mass While in a Caloric Deficit
For most people, ‘losing weight’ boils down to getting rid of body fat. And to lose weight, you must increase the number of calories you burn with exercise and activity while reducing the number of calories you consume from food intake. By adopting a caloric deficit, you’ll certainly lose weight but 99% of the time…
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How Does Muscle Influence Your Metabolic Rate?
Just like a car needs gasoline to create energy, our bodies need carbs, proteins, and fats to fuel our “engine” and keep us going throughout the day. And just like different types of cars and trucks get different gas mileage, our bodies utilize the fuel we eat differently – all depending on our body composition…
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Body Composition: Why You Should Care
“I really need to lose a few pounds.” We’ve probably all had this conversation with our self when getting dressed in the morning or even being brave enough to step on the bathroom scales. As a society, Americans are typically overweight, increasing the need for weight management and fitness programs. So when you’ve decided to…
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Fat Loss is Driven by a Sustained Caloric Deficit.
When it comes to eating, there are two types of people: Those who live to eat and those who eat to live. People in the first group – those who live to eat – are always thinking about what they are having for their next meal. Most of the time, they aren’t wondering and worrying…
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The Risk of Visceral Fat and Other Fat Types
When we were toddlers, we were told that little girls were made of “sugar and spice, and everything nice,” and little boys were composed of “frogs and snails, and puppy dog’s tails.” Although the old nursery rhyme was cute, it’s definitely not what we’re made of as adults. Our bodies are made of millions of…
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What is your metabolic type?
One thing we can all figure out quickly after a trip to the gym, a day on the beach, or a walk through the mall: People come in ALL shapes and sizes. Diet, exercise, lifestyle, and genetics all play a part in our bodies and how easy (or hard) it is to get into the…
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The Ideal Body Fat Percentage: So, What Is it?
Body fat. It’s just two words, but those words often strike fear in many of the health-conscious. When we were babies, it was OK to have a few extra rolls here and there, but scientists have found that too much fat is hard on your health by the time you have reached puberty and adulthood.…