Maximizing our investment in the gym should never go undervalued. Unfortunately we often miss out on critical factors and principles when it comes to building a strong physique. Here are 3 frequently neglected links in the world of fitness worth investing some major attention into. Protein Synthesis What’s Protein Synthesis? Read more…
We often directly link performance to results. The better the results, the better the performance technically speaking. This makes sense of course, but to actually maintain longevity in your performance, and perform as a true ‘5-tool performer’, there’s more that needs to be addressed than just our results on paper. Read more…
Working out and exercising is one of the best things we can do for our body, mind and overall well-being. The list of benefits range from strengthening our muscles, improving our physique, mobilizing our joints, stretching our body, clearing our mind, promoting feel good hormones, decreasing potential illnesses and diseases Read more…
Part 4/4: “Immune Boosting Practices” Over the course of the past 4 weeks, I have written about how we can boost our immunity, through lifestyle habits, specific foods, and easy to add ancient vitality inducing powders. This final article of this 4 part “Immune Boosting Series” connects the 3 previous Read more…
The lunge is without a doubt one of the best exercises we can do to increase lean muscle tissue, prevent injuries and optimize lower body strength. It’s a powerful movement, involving hints of both the squat and hinge movement patterns, and of course the lunge, which are all critical elements Read more…
Part 3/4 – “Immune Boosting Practices” What is a healthy lifestyle exactly? Well, there’s a variety of ways we can look at this, both from an objective and subjective standpoint. Objectively, everyone’s going to have particular activities that personally aid them to live more well balanced, happy and thriving lives. Read more…
1. Not Knowing Ones’ Baseline Our baseline is our current state of being. This baseline tells us how much food we need to maintain weight, lose weight and gain weight; our baseline also tells us how strong we are, how much 75% of our max is, what we should be Read more…
Covid-19 is running wild, like that of Hulk Hogan and the Hulkamaniacs of the late 80’s-early 90’s, making this subject matter of utmost importance and relevance. The irony of this whole pandemic is the majority of people that are terrified of Covid still consume foods with harmful ingredients – like Read more…
I’ve always been fascinated with athletic performance and optimizing my athleticism – being strong, durable, conditioned, agile and fast. CrossFit athletes are probably the closest thing to the ideal hybrid athlete, aptly naming their competitors, “the fittest men and women on earth”. I can’t really argue with this. These athletes Read more…
Putting on muscle is a fairly straight forward process: create tension, provide metabolic stress to the muscle, accrue muscle damage to some extent and be consistent with this process over the long haul. Of course there are other variables in terms of progressive overload (doing more than before), variety and Read more…
