Jan 8, 2025 | Coaching Wisdom, Exercise Science, Lifestyle, Nutritional Science
In this 7-day long study, 13 participants in total, fasted for seven consecutive days while still exercising.
As you can expect they lost fat mass.
But they lost more than three times as much lean mass as actual fat mass. This should come as no surprise to fact-based, educated personal trainers, and nutritional coaches but it is well worth pointing out how much better a high-protein, highly satiated fat loss cut is for your health, fitness, and body composition outcomes.
Jan 2, 2025 | Coaching Wisdom, Exercise Science, Lifestyle
Exercising strict enough not to get injured is the way to train. But in that intersection of strict enough, what do people lose by doing it too strict, and isolated, and can you gain anything by allowing a bigger movement that recruits more muscles in the entire muscle chain?
Dec 29, 2024 | Coaching Wisdom, Exercise Science, Lifestyle, Nutritional Science, Omnivore, Plant-Based, Podcast
In this conversational podcast Strength By Fitness covers the big fact-based pillars of vastly better strength, and health outcomes for people above 60 years-of-age.
Nov 29, 2024 | Coaching Wisdom, Exercise Science, Lifestyle, Nutritional Science
Never be afraid of lifting weights as a woman or man who is currently out of shape, less fit, obese, or if you simply are a person with some excess fat to lose.
When you change your food habits in order to achieve a healthy amount of fat loss you will also lose some lean mass, including skeletal muscle mass, bone mass and organ mass. Welcome to a new article and study.
Nov 23, 2024 | Coaching Wisdom, Exercise Science, Lifestyle, Nutritional Science
We are living in a fact-free world where a ton of people tragically assume that as they grow old there is absolutely nothing they can do to maintain better health, and fitness, mobility and body composition relative to their sedentary peers.
This is not true, habits dictate how you age, dive right in and find out how you can enjoy a healthier second half of your life.
Nov 17, 2024 | Coaching Wisdom, Exercise Science, Lifestyle
Today we we will take a look at over 150,000 completed marathons from 120,000 runners, so there´s no lack of data points in this article.
All data was from the final 16 weeks preceding the 151,813 marathons that were completed successfully by 119,452 runners.
Nov 10, 2024 | Exercise Science, Lifestyle
Intervals are far more demanding than steady-state exercise. But, read on for the why and take that knowledge with you as you program smarter fitness plans.
The human body will use way more energy moving into a higher level of physical effort than it does once a steady state has been achieved.
Nov 8, 2024 | Coaching Wisdom, Exercise Science, Lifestyle
This is how you train older clients for vastly better results and health.
In these studies, we see that roughly 12 sets in total per week of resistance training across two separate gym days track incredibly well.
Read on to uncover the secrets of successful strength training for the elderly. Load, rep range, rest and exercise choices, and why that is.
Nov 7, 2024 | Coaching Wisdom, Exercise Science, Lifestyle
Welcome to another Strength By Fitness article, today today we will talk about the crossroad of body mass, muscle fibers, strength, speed, agility and explosive power and how its all connected.
In short, this article will explore how you should train to become stronger, faster, and more explosive as an athlete and person.
This comes into play when your total mass is already too big for your relative strength to successfully power even faster, and more explosive movement.
Coach Mike, Strength By Fitness
Aug 5, 2024 | Coaching Wisdom, Exercise Science
The agonist-antagonist super set is capable of cutting your workout time in half without falling too far behind the strength progression of a traditional workout plan. But, you can also make use of the way I do, which allows you to cram more high quality workout volume and sessions per week into the same gym time envelope of your regular workouts, without compromising on progression at all.
Jul 22, 2024 | Nutritional Science, Exercise Science, Members & Clients Only
What happens if you lift weights and either consume protein following the RDA or use a high-protein plan with 1.6 grams per kilo of body weight and day for omnivores ( 1.8 for plant-based ). Double the progression is the answer. Member and client only article.
