A collection of posts about different health benefits derived from exercise.
Pillar One: Fat loss and Muscle Retention This is the first of the major pillar articles, this one focusing on fat loss and keeping or even building muscle simultaneously, and seeing results consistently. You’re in for a long read, but I promise it’s worth it. Below, you will find information, resources, studies, and clear explanations …
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Does Lifting Weights Help weight loss? Lifting weights may help with weight loss, but not for the reasons you probably think. Lifting weights in the gym can certainly elevate your heart rate if you’re pushing your sets close to failure, most notably on squats, deadlifts, or other large compound movements (and even isolation exercises toward …
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Weight Loss is extremely simple in theory Eat less calories than you expend and over time you will lose body fat. In practice, however, eating telling yourself to eat less calories can be similar to just telling yourself to learn another language. Both are extremely simple to do in theory, they just take time… and …
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Section 1: Prerequisites to Building Muscle Adequate Stimulus – If there is no stimulus, there is no growth. Muscle is built as your body’s response to stimulus. A stimulus is “a thing or event that evokes a specific functional reaction in an organ or tissue” (thanks for the definition Google). The functional reaction we’re looking …