What follows is what most people, most of the time, probably outta concentrate on in order to see results with their health & fitness goals. 1. Stop Chasing Optimal There are so many detail rabbit holes that you could run down: What’s the optimal number of days per week to train? What’s the optimal set and rep scheme to follow? What about optimal exercise order and which exercises to includes? Etc. The list could go on ad nauseam.  Many many people get bogged down in what's optimal that they’re paralyzed to start. Optimal is can be synonymous with “perfect” and that’s pressure you DON'T…

Guest blog post from Amy Berger at Tuit Nutrition (www.tuitnutrition.com). It’s time to talk about scales, and the role they should or shouldn’t play in your low-carb/keto life. The dreaded scale. S-C-A-L-E. (Can a 5-letter word be a 4-letter word?) It’s downright tragic how a simple measuring device has come to dominate so many people’s emotions. Does the number you see there determine your mood for the day? Down a pound or two and all is well in your world, but up three ounces and all hope is lost? Don’t let an inanimate object control your mental health! Like any tool, a scale can…

This is going to be unique because we are going to talk about things that are disrupting your fat loss through your resistance training by such things as timing mistakes, supplement consumption mistakes and different things that you may not have considered. So lets delve into the 7 resistance training mistakes that are getting in the way of your fat loss and if corrected, I think you'll see some progress.  1. Rest periods too long You may have thought that by resting longer you would be able to lift more weight and thereby burn more calories. The problem is you actually don't…

What is the personal fat threshold?  It comes out of the medical literature and it basically refers to how fat you are capable of getting.  We ingest most of our energy in our diets from carbs and fat and then store energy in the form of triglycerides in cells called adipocytes aka fat cells. All of this fat we are carrying around we can use to run our metabolism whenever we don’t have access to food.  Watch the video below: When you eat fat, most of it is stored in your fat cells as mentioned above however some is burned along the way…

I believe there’s a big difference between losing fat in the short term versus staying lean for life. When you’re focused on a short term goal with a deadline—the most important thing is to reach your target. Obviously you want to do that in the healthiest manner possible, but many times we overemphasize pushing ourselves as hard as possible, using our discipline to restrict ourselves and do whatever it takes to achieve the results. Here are a few of the differences between short term and long term fat loss. Use some of these strategies whether you're in a maintain phase or when you want short…