Here you’ll find information about how to live a healthy lifestyle including working out and nutritional advice.
Diabetes is a widely common disease that affects a lot of people. Looking at the US alone, 50% of Americans are diagnosed with diabetes or a form of pre-diabetes. While the majority of them are obese, latest estimates suggest that 16 to 25% of normal weight adults are also in a stage of pre-diabetes. You might not be affected yet or think it’s not relevant to you but here is a new view on diabetes and why it matters to…
If you are trying to educate yourself about proper diet and fitness or even if you just scroll through your social media feed, it’s very likely that you’ll see information about the latest study. That can be “Study shows green tea is the best fat burner!” or other weird stuff. It’s usually extremely simplified, out of context and in many cases absolutely wrong. Here’s what’s behind the “most recent studies”.
Eating healthy sounds like a daunting task. A lot of the advice you find seems contradicting, overwhelming and too complicated leaving you confused and discouraged. While we won’t go too much into the details, here are 5 steps on how to get started on eating healthy. Implementing all the strategies below at once can be too much, I recommend you take them one step at a time, give it a week or two or even a month if needed before adding…
A lot of us turn to our health professionals when we have questions about diet and exercise. For example, your doctor might have told you before not to eat more than 1 egg a day because of your cholesterol. As we hopefully all know by now, that claim about 1 egg a day is complete BS. Even the US Government finally revised their guideline.
It feels like after every successful action movie you’ll find the main actors diet and workout routine online. Earlier this year there was this guy trying to eat like The Rock. The Rock’s meal plan includes about 8 meals, over 5000 calories and a huge pile of cod. But if you really want to follow in your role model’s footsteps, don’t eat and train like them! Here’s why.
So you are telling yourself you are trying to go to the gym/go for a run/be more active but you don’t have time. This is probably the most common excuse out there. But it’s also the adult version of “the dog ate my homework”. I get it, we are all busy and yet we have fit certain things into our day. I’ll share one fundamental tip that has helped me personally significantly to improve my time management. Everyone can apply this and…
So, you got your workout ready, you managed to make time for the gym but you are still wondering what to drink. Because as we all know staying hydrated or rehydrating after a workout is really important. You might be looking at popular sports drinks like Gatorade, Powerade, Aquarius or Pocari Sweat (a popular Japanese sports drink that will probably never make it to any English speaking country without a name change). But what are they good for and should…
So, you made the decision that it’s time to get your butt off the couch and finally get active again and sign up at the gym. You start researching different workouts and realize quickly: there’s an unlimited number of fitness/workout advice ranging from the optimal number of reps (low reps like 1-5 vs. high reps up like 15-20) to squat depths, low-bar squat vs. high bar squat, rest period, full body workout vs. split routines etc. The same applies when…
If you are looking to get started with weight training, it can be a bit overwhelming. You walk into the weight room and wonder where to start, what machine to use and what actually to do. Regardless of if you want to become a massive bodybuilder, powerlifter, strongman, crossfitter or just “get in shape”, here’s a basic workout to get you started. You can use the template at the bottom for at least 3 months.