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Diet, weight loss and body composition changes
This is an unfortunately long post, and I apologize for it, but the reason is that I find all this so darn interesting. Hope you do to. A little while back I looked closer at some of the science behind diet, weight loss and body re-composition. I have heard people say on several occasions that a low carbohydrate diet…
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What is the best exercise for fat loss? Part IV
The biasI have this theory. In the last post I concluded that there is sufficient data for recommending high intensity exercise in favor of low intensity for fat loss. Admittedly, the data in support of this is not strong. It is there, but I would not bet my life on it yet. I might be…
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Meanwhile, in Japan
Felt like writing something about exercise. After all, my education is in exercise science and not nutrition. This is about an exercise trend from Japan. It might be the next big thing in both muscle building and physical therapy and it may hurt like hell. This is Kaatsu training! Simply speaking Kaatsu training is occlusion…
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Just a small reminder
”…low carbohydrate diet sets the stage for a significant loss of lean tissue as the body recruits amino acids from muscle to maintain blood glucose via gluconeogenesis.” Exercise Physiology, Mcardle, Katch & Katch 2007 There is one aspect of human metabolism that is too often…