Nutrition: Are You Eating Enough?
Here's a question people frequently don't think about -- "Are you eating enough?"
When you're dieting down, obviously you cut your calories. However you'll reach a point when you can no longer reduce your calories anymore, you hit a plateau, you're not losing your weight, and you're stuck with what you do at that point.
That's when you may need to either do a little reverse dieting or look at taking a diet break. Once you reach the bottom of your calorie intake (typically not lower than your BMR or basal metabolic rate) your body will most likely adapt to that set point and not lose any more weight. That's when you need to gradually add calories back in, taking a a diet break to let your body re-adapt. Many times, you'll start increasing calories, and you won't gain weight. Doing this helps you start your calorie deficit or next round of dieting from a higher calorie point. To summarize, you cut calories, hit a plateau, take a short break and increase calories, let your body adapt,...
Metabolism: The Role of Nutrition
Many people think they have a broken metabolism, or their metabolism isn't working quite right. And a lot of that can be due to your nutrition and making sure that you're eating an adequate amount of food. You shouldn't constantly be dieting and cutting calories. So when you think about dieting, and wanting to lose weight, you want to ensure you are using nutrition periodization which is like having seasons of dieting. There will be times where you're cutting or reducing your calories. There will be times when you're eating at maintenance to give your body a break from dieting. And then there should be times where you're eating in a surplus, which is great if you want to try to build muscle, because you can't build muscle without extra calories.
So it's super important to also ensure that you're eating above your BMR - Basal Metabolic Rate. That's the amount of calories that takes just for your body to function on a daily basis, not including exercise or additional movement...
What is Astaxanthin? Here's Your Complete Supplement Guide
Originally published on HVMN by Jamie Witherby.
You’ve probably seen the classic image of a wild salmon swimming upstream—schools of feisty fish fighting the current for hours and hours but never really getting anywhere. Sound like anyone else you know?
If you’re an endurance athlete, this feeling may be all too familiar. You work and work for long periods of time but you don’t really feel like you’re making strides.
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Where Does Astaxanthin Come From?
Supplementing with Astaxanthin
Don’t pity the wild salmon just yet. To improve your own endurance training, you may want to learn from this bright fish. Don’t worry if you’re not a swimmer; this tip is for all endurance athletes.
In this article, we’ll discuss the multi-faceted endurance...
