Living on protein shakes might sound like a good idea, but it probably isn’t. For a start, it is a supplement. That’s right designed to supplement your protein intake. Protein shakes however aren’t bad for you in fact they are good. This is because (at least good branded ones) contain the best quality proteins for body absorption, you need protein when working out as your muscles incur microscopic tears, and right after your workout they will be looking to repair themselves, this is where your protein supplement comes into affect. [Read more...]
Water Diets To Lose Weight
Water – An Important part of your Training Program
Water – a vital component for all living things, without which we cannot survive. The body of a healthy adult consists of 55-60% water. It provides structure to your organs, is essential in dissolving and transporting nutrients around your body and helps to regulate the body temperature. [Read more...]
Why Diets Don’t Work
Do Diets Actually Work Long Term?
What does the word diet mean to you? Atkins? 3 Day Diet? Cabbage Soup Diet? The ‘starve yourself until you’re too weak to walk diet’? Perhaps something slightly different, but here’s betting it’s somewhere along these lines.
The thing is, the word ‘diet’ actually refers to the food you eat each and every day; forever, for the rest of your life! The sooner you realize that a diet is not something you decide to follow in order to lose weight, the sooner you’re likely to change your diet to one which is healthy and will aid your fitness goals. [Read more...]
