Your Metabolism Slows Down and Stays Down, Unless…
I have some bad news for you. According to scientists at New York’s Presbyterian Medical Center at Columbia University, folks who succeed in losing weight tend to wind up suffering from a lower than expected metabolic rate. This means that if you lose weight, you will burn fewer calories each day than someone of the same weight who was never overweight.
READ MOREThe Low-Intensity Cardio Lie
Once in a while, a study comes along that surprises me. For instance, I recently found one showing that cardio works for fat loss – as long as it is high-intensity cardio.
READ MOREChoosing the Right Weight
Going to the gym is intimidating enough. But not knowing how much weight to use for an exercise can make you feel even more uncomfortable. If you grab a weight that’s too light, you’ll waste your time. If you grab a weight that’s too heavy, you risk injury.
READ MOREBattle of the Ab Exercises
To get six-pack abs, most people think they’ll have to do hundreds of crunches. But crunches involve spinal flexion (rounding forward), and research shows that spinal flexion can lead to herniated discs. Knowing this has sent me on a long and exhaustive search for safe and effective ab training.
READ MOREThe Anti-Aging Effects of Exercise
Growth hormone is known as a “fountain of youth” in the anti-aging community because it helps build muscle and burn body fat. But research has shown that people who are overweight tend to have lower growth hormone levels.
READ MOREThe Worst Thing You Can Do for Muscles
There are some things we should NOT do to our muscles. One of the worst is to stop moving them.
Swedish and American scientists teamed up to find out just how bad complete bed rest is for muscles. In the study, they subjected eight men to a three-day period of lower-limb suspension (for one leg only).
READ MOREBent Out of Shape About a JointFlex Commercial
A sin to be avoided in sales copy is using words that remind the prospect you are, in actuality, selling a product, not just educating or helping him out of the kindness of your heart. One of the words on my forbidden list is “product.” Today, I heard a radio spot for JointFlex, an arthritis supplement, that repeats the word many times.
READ MOREObesity and the Brain: The Exercise Connection
For years, conventional wisdom has been that exercise helps control weight by simply burning calories. But it appears that it does much more than that.
READ MORESoy Foods: Friend or Foe?
You might think there’s very little difference between tempeh and tofu. But when it comes to your health, this couldn’t be further from the truth. Why? Unfermented soy foods – like edamame, soy nuts, soy sprouts, soy flour, soy protein isolate, soy milk, and tofu – contain two anti-nutrients: trypsin…
READ MOREWhy Workouts Make You Say “Ouch”
My trademark attorney just e-mailed me and said he was going to the gym for the first time in 18 months. I quickly e-mailed back and told him to take it easy.
As anyone who has started a new exercise program knows, his muscles are going to be sore. But why is that? And why does it take a day or two for it to happen?
READ MOREGood Health Habits Pay Off – Even If You Start Late
Even if you don’t adopt good health habits until well into middle age, a new study shows that it’s still worth your while to do so…
READ MOREDon’t Diet TOO Much
Bodybuilders have long known that if you eat too little for too long, you can actually decrease your resting metabolic rate (the number of calories you burn at rest).
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