By djbbizUFC on
11/28/2008 8:43 PM
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This question is easily answered with "eating habits". You can workout all you want and leave the gym and begin chowing down on bad foods and reverse any internal gains you may have made. In reality you can be overweight but fairly physically fit just not chemically fit. In other words you may delay the onset of disease such as cardiovascular risk with exercise but you won't maximize the potential outcome if you eat poorly. In addition you won't get the most out of your workouts.
To avoid this, follow some simple rules:
Must eat foods:
Fats...
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By djbbizUFC on
11/24/2008 5:44 PM
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You got your first workout in and as one client put it so eloquently, "I was so hungry that I was ready to gnaw my arm off on the way home..." That about sums up the feeling you get after a high-intensity, energy-grabbing workout that is followed by the body seeking to replenish its spent energy.
Your post workout nutrition begins your very important recovery period. We all have heard about insulin. It is all the buzz in...
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By djbbizUFC on
11/20/2008 12:10 PM
 A question I get asked all the time is what should I eat before I workout? Way too often this question comes after someone has "bonked" during the warmup! What is bonking you ask? Ever see those triathlon or marathon runners trying to cross the line looking like they can barely walk? Well, this is due to a total breakdown of nutrition and metabolism in the body as it has run out of fuel to use for energy expenditure. It is not pretty but more often will manifest itself in a hypoglycemic state where the trainees blood sugar levels fall precipitously as they get into their routine. Weakness and the shakes set in as the body is no longer...
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By djbbizUFC on
11/19/2008 11:16 PM
 I want to give you a quick new way to think about the relationship between nutrition, exercise and disease. Just where does disease come from? Is the meaning of genetic defined as those things for which we have no control? Or can our environment influence how it manifests itself? The secret to reversing the progression of disease is to change the genetic expression of your genes. Everything that impacts our environment from nutrition, exercise and stress interacts with our genes which causes them to be “read” or expressed properly and healthfully or poorly and with disease causing results.
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By djbbizUFC on
11/18/2008 2:46 PM
 I hear this all the time from personal trainers and their clients..."we are going to make a personal training program just for you..." The reality is there are only so many exercises in the book and many of them overlap in their usefulness. I have been training for over 30 years and I still do a lot of the same exercises now as I did then. Why you ask? Because when I started training in the 70's we only had free weights. We did have one of the very first Universal machines but it was very limited in its use and not very well accepted at the health club I belonged to which had lots...
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By Head Trainer on
11/18/2008 11:15 AM
This is the opening of our Health and Fitness Blog. Here I will attempt to feed you some health information, nutritional tips and tricks and scientific research on health and fitness as well as some educated opinions on the state of the industry and its practices. I will try and use this blog to document regular questions posed by clients during our training sessions and to enhance your total health experience.
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