metabolic

Your Guide to Metabolic Flexibility You don't want a sluggish metabolism... or even a fast metabolism. You want a flexible metabolism capable of switching fuels rapidly. Here's how to get it. I’m driving around Los Angeles and I’m annoyed. Not the conscious type of annoyed where I’m irate at the...

TRAINING AND YOUR METABOLIC STATE When I think "workout," I think of speeds. Your metabolic state is like an engine: It can be revving at full throttle and burning fast and furious – let's call this red. It can be set in cruise control and coasting down the highway – call this yellow. It can...

The most basic concept for weight loss is balancing caloric intake with caloric expenditure. If you consume less than you burn, you’ll lose weight; and if you eat more than you burn, you’ll pack the pounds on. Unfortunately, it’s not always this simple. The harder you diet and exercise, the more...

ro-Metabolic” is a term I’m coining for the foundation of my diet philosophy here at Train. Eat. Live. #prometabolic (ha, just kidding. But not really). The result? You’ll be working WITH your body making your fitness goals much easier to achieve while setting yourself up to live a ‘truly’...

We all want bigger muscles, and to build bigger muscles we need to get stronger – much stronger. Gaining strength through progressive overload ensures that we continue to place more tension on the muscles over time, forcing them to adapt by growing larger. Heavier weights equals greater tension...

The term ‘energy availability’ refers to whether or not you have adequate energy to maintain not only the energy demands of exercise or sport but also of normal physiological function. You can be at energy balance, maintaining a stable body mass, but be in a state of ‘relative energy...

You can't throw the proverbial rock without hitting yet another obnoxious ad of some sort for alkaline water, with claims to cure all that ails ya', from genital warts to fear of flying. It's said to restore pH balance by "reducing acidity levels in the blood" and "reducing water cluster size...

Food Sequencing for Metabolic Health Food, Fat Loss, and Credibility There are many different ways to think about food and fat loss. Unfortunately, the view that calories are all that matter dominates most discussions. Anyone who says calories don’t matter for fat loss is either ignorant of...

When it comes to losing weight, there are a lot of myths out there. Do you struggle to lose weight even after cutting calories? What about unable to maintain that weight loss? Have you gained some weight back after each diet? Many may say metabolic damage is the culprit, and that you are...

In part 1 of our series we looked at evidence in whether the distribution of protein had an effect on body composition as well as whether breakfast was necessary. Today we look at whether when we eat our food, matters, with a particular focus on when we consume carbohydrates. No Carbohydrates...

In a recent discussion with an elite field of training experts many of the well-known authors, trainers and scientists had noticed a growing trend in the general population about the inability to lose body fat. Most of the experts first witnessed an increase in the number of guys and girls in...

What if you could teach your body to burn more fat and preserve carbohydrates stores to improve health, reduce body weight and body fat and improve athletic performance? Not surprisingly, this is possible with a few adjustments to your daily nutrition plan. By using a little basic science...

By Adam Bisek The Assessment Phase: How to Adjust Assessing how you respond to the numbers we calculated is equally, if not more important. Remember, at this point, we have assessed the number of calories you need to consume to maintain your current weight, this is important to remember for...

By Adam Bisek Many people set out on their own dietary excursion with the best of intentions to build muscle or shed body fat. However, even the best of intentions can be haphazard. Unless you’re initially calculating your estimated metabolism (caloric expenditure), tracking your diet closely...

By Adam Bisek With the holidays in full swing, many hopes of maintaining a semblance of diet and exercise rigidity have been differed to the “new year new me” category. And while I’m completely on board with some dietary laxity in this period I do think it’s worthwhile to proactively start...

When you hear the phrase, metabolic health, a speedy metabolism may come to mind. Although that’s part of it, there’s much more to metabolic health than simply how fast food is digested and calories are burned. Metabolic health is the absence of metabolic diseases like diabetes, heart disease...

Everyone in the bodybuilding and figure world is talking about metabolic damage and how it is a diet killer. This article explores the current "epidemic" of this condition. One of the big buzz terms in health and fitness subculture as of late is “metabolic damage”. It seems like quite a few...

How and why does your metabolism slow while losing fat? Bodybuilding coach Cliff Wilson provides 6 tips on how to maximize your fat loss efforts. I see it ALL…THE…TIME! Metabolic damage and serious metabolic issues are rampant in the sport of bodybuilding. Metabolic damage is essentially a...

by Matt Weik The question on everybody’s minds these days is, “Why am I gaining weight?” There are several reasons for this to happen, however, most people simply find an excuse such as they don’t have time to exercise, they’ve been too busy to fit in a workout, or the fallacy that they’re just...

KETO PHASES: MORE BENEFITS, FEWER DRAWBACKS In 2018, at the peak of the keto frenzy, I was a ketogenic diet specialist who started spreading a very unpopular message from inside the keto community: Do keto. Not forever. At that time, carbs were not welcome at the dining table. Many promoted...