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Muscle Water Retention?

April 7, 2010

Here’s a good question by April Braswell: “Could you explain something I’ve heard recently that weight training [causes] the muscle hold water? Not exactly water retention like when we eat too much salty popcorn or something extreme and non-nutritional.” There are two reasons I can think of that someone may have said that weight training causes muscle to retain water. First, if a person (...)

Happy Easter

April 4, 2010

However you celebrate it, hope you are having, and have had, a fantastic Easter! Darryl

How Strong Are You?

April 3, 2010

Sometimes a person that engages in resistance training is curious about how much he/she can perform in a 1-repitition maximum (1-RM) lift.  However, it may be impractical and/or potentially dangerous for the person to do this.  Well, if you’re curious,  here are a couple of formulas that can help you out (NOTE: these formulas are in KILOGRAMS, not pounds). The first formula is for the untrained person. 1-RM (kg) = (...)

Your Physical Fitness Genie

April 2, 2010

You can control what your body does — that is, you can lose fat, you can gain muscle, or you can maintain your present physique — all at your whim.  Your physical fitness wish is your command.  Your body can be your fitness genie. All you have to do is chose which you want to do (lose fat, gain muscle, or maintain), then adjust you daily caloric intake to meet (...)

Another Benefit of the Fountain of Youth

March 31, 2010

Yesterday’s post was about the real Fountain of Youth.  What is the real Fountain of Youth?  Resistance training.  Why is resistance training the Fountain of Youth.  One of the reasons is this: almost everybody progressively gains fat after about age 20, and certainly after middle age.  This is true of both the sedentary and active people.  However, habitual resistance trainees buck this trend. People that resistance train don’t gain as (...)

The REAL Fountain of Youth…Found!

March 30, 2010

If we keep on living we will inevitably get older.  Some of the great things about living are enjoying loved ones (for example, playing with kids), experiencing neat new places / things, and hopefully becoming wiser. Some of the aspects of aging that we may not care for are a few more aches here and there, seeing our kids grow up and leave home (or maybe we do enjoy that (...)

The Correct Way to Weigh

March 28, 2010

In the series on “The Most Effective Weight Loss Solution“, it was revealed that one of the activities common to people that lose weight and keep it off is that they “monitor” their weight.  In other words, they keep up with what their body weight is.  Most (at least 75%) of them weigh themselves at least once a week.  Many of them weigh themselves daily.  If successful weight losers do (...)

The Most Effective Weight Loss Solution, Conclusion

March 26, 2010

Today, on the way to work, I heard a commercial on the radio in which the lady talking was telling of her personal experience with weight gain and weight loss.  She lamented the fact that when she went out with a girlfriend of hers, her girlfriend was a guy magnet while she (the lady talking) was considered the one with “personality”.  This young lady went on to say that she (...)

The Most Effective Weight Loss Solution, Part IV

March 25, 2010

The most effective weight loss solution, where “most effective” means getting fat off and keeping it off, is the combination of diet and exercise.  Period. Why? Because if you diet without exercise, you’ll lose fat along with muscle and water.  After the dieting is over, you will almost certainly gain back all the fat and water that was lost.  And if you exercise without dieting, you might gain some muscle (...)

The Most Effective Weight Loss Solution, Part III

March 24, 2010

Yesterday we discussed how people EFFECTIVELY lose weight, which is through the use of the combination of diet and exercise. Today we talk about how people who lose their excess pounds keep those excess pounds off. Here’s the SECRET to losing fat and keeping fat off that you never hear in those t.v. infomercials:  When people successfully lose fat, they keep it off by exercising and self-monitoring.  Wow!  Turns out (...)