For decades, exercisers performed cardiorespiratory (aerobic) exercise to burn calories and stimulate fat loss. A bout of cardio generally does burn slightly more calories than a bout of strength training. But this is an incomplete picture. For the rest of the day...
Dr. Stuart Phillips, perhaps the leading researcher on exercise, hormones, muscle growth, and fat loss, recently addressed six cortisol myths. Cortisol is not a bad thing. Cortisol doesn’t suppress fat breakdown or limit muscle growth. Cortisol is simply a marker of...
More often than not, the very reason someone is apprehensive about strength training is also one of its primary benefits. Over the last 25 years, the apprehensions (reasons NOT to start strength training) I’ve heard around strength training (and the associated...
Marketing and sales pundits teach that in order to both market or sell a product or service, the marketer or salesperson should speak to the one problem that the product or service promises to solve. Stated otherwise, don’t overwhelm a prospect with too many...
The strength training workout that you did early this week, today, and the rest of 2024 just may serve you well a decade from now. Swedish researchers published a new study last month in the Journal of Physiology that provides our most comprehensive understanding of...
