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Category Archives: Nutrition
Understanding Insulin
What I’m learning… Insulin manages the body’s blood / sugar level. It acts as a transport for nutrients – pushes them directly into the muscles or fat cells. The negative of Insulin is that it can transport nutrients to muscles … Continue reading
More on Insulin
So here it is. The straight and narrow / simple: So, time carb intake right with exercise and you can get a lot of those muscle-building and glycogen-storing benefits of insulin. Then, back off the carbs. Have a huge carb … Continue reading
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Nutrition Rotation
Another piece of advice from PN that I’m going to implement hopefully soon – is the goal of rotating your nutrition. Right now, my diet is pretty static. It’s chicken and rice / pasta in the evening, turkey with crackers … Continue reading
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ReFeed / Go Wild Day
I was just reading through some articles on Precision Nutrition, and they talk about a ‘ReFeed’ day… or what I’d call a ‘Go Wild’ day. If you stick to a structured meal plan for 2 weeks, then there’s one day … Continue reading
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Days 31-32
I was up at the cabin this weekend. It was a really good weekend. I slept a lot (sorry Murray). Apparently my body needed a lot of recovery from the past week. I’m glad my body got what it needed. … Continue reading
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Calorie Deficit Outside of Exercise
I was just reading this interesting article on Fitness Black Book about ‘skinny fat’ people. It’s about people who look reasonably trim, but who have additional weight around the body… they’re carrying excess, so they’re not quite as ripped or … Continue reading
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Good Nutrition Plan
This guy’s a full-on bodybuilder, but he’s got quite a nice – and simple – nutrition plan. Check out Antonio Diaz from bb.com. OK – given that that link goes to a generic page, I’m thinking that that page will … Continue reading
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Nutrition As Energy
For some reason this cropped into my head this morning – nutrition as energy rather than as enjoyment. I think my training’s going extremely well – the dedication and motivation is there. I push hard (maybe 90%) at the gym … Continue reading
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Eating
So – earlier this month I wrote about how calories don’t count. This was quite an important insight, and one that’s continued to haunt me over these past week days. OK – I’ll be entirely honest right now. I’ve been … Continue reading
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Calories Don’t Count
Was chatting to a good friend last night who’s just getting himself into this training gig… and he’s got an awesome trainer. Something he said stuck in my mind: the body doesn’t understand calories. It understands carbs, fats and protein. … Continue reading
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