Here’s an article by Amy Roberts, CPT on How to Build Muscle. For the article, she asked fitness and nutrition professionals across the country about sample workouts, theory, and nutrition recommendations. As someone who lifts for strength:mass ratio and overall athleticism primarily, my goal is not necessarily to put on as much muscle as possible for the
I get to work with a lot of women who want to lose weight on the fitness side as a personal trainer and on the nutrition side as a registered dietitian. Most women who come in to “lose weight” really just want to change their body composition, and it is interesting to see whether people
In an effort to become a better personal trainer and registered dietitian, I decided to embark upon a weight loss journey on November 1, 2014 that ended December 15, 2014. Granted, I didn’t need to lose weight for any health reasons, but I tend to go on some sort of a reduced calorie modified version
Many people will amp up exercise in an attempt to lose weight because they know the law of thermodynamics that states that calories in must be fewer than calories out. Knowing this, they will drastically reduce dietary caloric intake by adapting strange diets they won’t be able to stay on for the rest of their
If you follow health news, there are often articles that discuss how much exercise it will take to burn off a cheeseburger. The motivation behind these articles is to dissuade you from having that cheeseburger, logically at least, because it supposedly takes a “5.6 mile hike” required to “burn” it off. When I see these
A number of trainers were quoted in WorldLifestyle: health+fitness, including me! I agree that the shape of your muscles is genetically determined, but you can maximize what you have by lowering body fat percentage through a healthy AND consistent eating plan as well as building up the muscles underneath the skin in the area such as
