Nearly all of us that care about our fitness seem to function in streaks. We will nail the diet and workouts for a few weeks, then we will slip for a few, then again get frustrated with ourselves enough to get motivated to get back on the diet. This seems to be the ebb and flow for 99% of everyone, not just in fitness, but in life in general. There’s an emotional component to this that makes it nearly inevitable, and I’ll explain. If we can understand why this happens, it wil

“Sugars are bad, sugars make you fat, and fruit has sugar, so you shouldn’t eat fruit if you want to lose weight.” -Most People This is the popular story we have been told, and indeed, fruit does have sugar, but as with most things in the diet and fitness realm, the details matter, and no one has ever gotten fat eating fruit. The fact is that there is a big difference between “bad” sugar like candy or cookies and fruit. I personally eat fruit multiple times a day. I do this

Losing weight is simple right? You cut calories, increase activity level, and the body responds by burning body fat. It really is THAT simple, or is it. The problem is, the body is very tricky and crafty. Because of centuries of evolution and learning to survive during periods of famine, It doesn’t always go that way. All the people that had the genetics to lose weight are dead unfortunately. When food became scares, their bodies were ill prepared and they died. Whereas those

Cardio training, in all of its forms, is more or less synonymous with fat loss and getting “fit”. Walking, running, aerobics, stair-steppers, bike, stationary bike and many more all constitute the loose term of cardiovascular training. When someone wants to lose weight or “get fit” they tend to do two things automatically, they diet and do cardio. This is with good reason. The way cardio works is very straight forward. The increased activity taxes the body and causes it to bu

Calories in versus calories out. We add up all the calories we eat throughout the day, then subtract out the calories we burn off with exercise and we arrive at our net calorie surplus or deficit. If we want to lose weight, we make sure we are burning more calories than we are eating, right? As many people have already discovered, its not quite that simple. While we can get a pretty good handle on how many calories we take in, measuring how many calories we burn is by no mean

So many different diets to choose from…vegan, paleo, fasting, no carb, no fat, carnivore, etc etc etc. Every one of them has their benefits and also, every one of them WILL work, if done correctly. There is one underlying factor though that outweighs them all…That is, that 90% of people who fail on a particular diet don’t fail because the diet failed them, they fail because they failed to follow the diet. You need a diet you can actually follow long term. What I’ve found from

Low/no carb diets have become incredibly popular..In fact, the vast majority of weight loss/get fit diets incorporate some form of extreme carbohydrate restriction. And this is for good reason, it works. Carbohydrates are by far the most usable and easily burned energy source between the three (carbs, fats, proteins). So by restricting them, we limit our bodies quick access to an energy source, thus in order to function, it forces our body to turn to fat, body fat and convert

With so much fodder around which diet to try, be it the vegetarian diet, carnivore diet, intermittent fasting, low carb diet, low fat diet, caveman diet etc etc etc….It’s difficult to figure out which is the best….The truth is, every one of the diets listed above has attributes to it that, if followed 100% will yield great results. The key variable, the wildcard, is whether or not you will be able to follow it long enough. The truth is, by going on a diet, any diet, and follo

Quite an unusual phenomena that several studies have confirmed as of the recently is that the mean testosterone level in men (of the same age) has been decreasing over time. Studies have ..”revealed a “substantial” drop in U.S. men’s testosterone levels since the 1980s, with average levels declining by about 1% per year. This means, for example, that a 60-year-old man in 2004 had testosterone levels 17% lower than those of a 60-year-old in 1987. “ Lower testosterone is associ

Ketogenic diets have become very popular for their ability to increase the body’s usage of fat for energy. A ketogenic diet is essentially a diet strategy that is high in fat and extremely low (or even no) carbs. This type of diet has many other benefits such as insulin regulation, improved cholesterol, and even mood stabilization. The ketogenic diet essentially works by providing an extreme lack of carbs, but an abundance of fat. As an adaptation, the body is forced to use