Optimized Nutrition for Martial Arts & FitnessNutrition

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Maximizing your workout in a thermogenic state

Anyone can Google the average caloric burn for the major forms of exercise and easily discover that on average a person can burn 500 to 700 calories per hour. That research would indicate that on the surface it doesn’t matter whether we are running,, swimming, lifting weights or engaged in some form of high-intensity interval…

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Stop Struggling with Weight and Listen to Your Body

The body is a calculator. In very general terms, if you put fuel in, then the body has to decide (yes, decide) what to do with that fuel. The major options follow: The body can burn that fuel. We call this metabolism or metabolic burn. This is how we stay alive, and it is the…

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The Nutrition Timing System – NTS

Understanding the body, nutrition, and how to avoid storing energy as fat is easier than trying every fad diet and weight loss program. The Nutrition Timing System is, in essence, a habit that becomes metabolically autonomic with regular exercise. Much like circadian rhythms and sleep, the body can establish a habit for nutrition. I often…

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