A Beginners Guide to Mastering Exercise and Nutrition: Part 4- Weight Training Continuum

A Beginners Guide to Mastering Exercise and Nutrition: Part 4- Weight Training Continuum The weight training continuum explains how the body adapts physiologically to different weight-training methods.  There are three basic physiological changes that happen while weight training within specific parameters: bulk/power, hypertrophy (increased muscle) or tone/endurance.  All three of these methods are important to […]

A Beginners Guide to Mastering Exercise and Nutrition, Part III

Starting an exercise and Nutrition Program: Important things to remember Warm up:  Warming up for 5-10 minutes, gradually increasing intensity up to 70% target heart rate (THR) on aerobic exercise equipment such as a treadmill before exercising will increase blood flow throughout the body. This increase in blood flow will fuel the muscles for activity performed […]

A Beginners Guide To Mastering Exercise and Nutrition, Part II Why Exercise and Nutrition

Why Exercise and Nutrition Currently, approximately 75 percent of Americans are overweight and 338 percent are obese.  These numbers have risen at an alarming rate over the past three decades and they continue to worsen.  According to statistics from national and international health organizations, Americans are among the fattest people on earth! Three major factors […]