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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