What You Need to Know About Carb Cycling

Low carb or high carb? Why don't add the two in your nutrition regime? Thanks ACE If you can’t decide if you should follow a low-carb or a high-carb diet, why not just combine the two diets in an effort to address all of your sports-performance and weight-loss concerns? Believe it or not, this is an actual dietary approach known as carb cycling, which involves alternating between high- and low-carbohydrate days for six days and including a...

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Workouts you can do in your Living Room

Great alternatives I find. They may be the basic usual ones you always hear about but they are really effective... Original post here Don't have time to go to the gym? Here are some workouts you can do at home with household items. By Azumio, Inc. 12 February, 2015 at 12:00AM Share on Facebook Tweet Share Working out isn’t a matter of having time – it’s a matter of making time. That said, we all endure...

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This Is Why Parents Are More Exhausted Than You Think They Should Be

The actual interest that sparks me more are the comments after the post. Super interesting. And I like this thought. 'You will adjust'. Which is so true to parenthood. We just adjust and we will find things that we will enjoy in our own parenting ways and find that our priorities shift in other ways. Right now with me, it sucks to be sick. At first, people understand that bringing new life also brings exhaustion. People ask new parents if the...

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9 Common Weight Loss Myths

Courtesy of Azimo Don't let these weight loss myths fool you and deter you from your goals. By Katie Ringley 22 May, 2015 at 07:00AM Weight loss can be super confusing at times due to all the different information presented to you on every website or magazine that you read, making you believe there are certain rules to follow. These rules are not always factually backed up by science so you want to make sure that you know how to...

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Training While Sick

Supplements.co.nz With winter well and truely on it's way here in NZ, keep warm. Training while sick is a nightmare for bodybuilders. It’s harder to stay hydrated, sleep patterns change for the worse. The biggest drawback of being sick with a cold or the flu is not being able to go to the gym, and having to endure the feeling that all of your gains are slowly withering away while your body conserves its resources for your immune system. Can you train while sick? Read on the find the answer – it will surprise you! Immune Response...

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Tips on Staying Healthy in the Office

I like no 3 :) Don't let the demands of your job keep you from being healthy. By Julia Kim Murphy 11 March, 2016 at 02:30PM With the new year in full swing, we are all keeping busy again at work. Unfortunately this means that we are sitting down for much longer periods of time, forgetting to drink water, and move. It is recommended that we move every 20 minutes, but if the majority of your work is behind a computer screen, it's...

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Mobility and Why it's important

Sometimes we shouldn't really be lifting weights at the gym. It's gotta be more functional, so here's to why putting mobility workouts in our exercise is important. And, it's easier than you think it is ;) So there I was…26 years old with knee problems, and while I could chalk it up to life in the Army I felt that there must be another cause for the pain. So I Google’d it, like any other citizen of the modern age. I discovered that I spent...

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13 Things You Need to Know About Nutrition as You Age

I can't stress any further the importance of protein in our diet regime as we age.... Thank you Kristina for the wonderful article! (original article here) As medicine continues to advance and we are living longer, quality of life remains a high priority. Age can also bring with it some real weight struggles, like the stubborn middle-age spread and what feels like a sluggish metabolism. Meeting nutritional needs as you age may require an adjustment...

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