It’s been quite sometime since I’ve written a fitness based post and since this blog was primarily started as a fitness blog, I wanted to write something on the subject. Specifically BCAA’s. What are BCAA’s? So to begin, BCAA – Branched Chain Amino Acids, are a group of essential amino acids that…
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I want to be like you. No you really don’t.
It’s been a while since I’ve written a post. Mostly because I’ve been either active on instagram or busy with my real life (non-social media) stuff. But today I finally had some free time to write about something I’ve been wanting to get off my chest for a while. It’s about a question I…
Consistency and Timing Part 2 – Timing
Continuing from Part 1… WHEN TO DO IT THEN? Now, if you read the first part, you’d be wondering , well, you pointed out the problem, but where’s the solution? Well, read on. If you’ve read my past posts, you know that I’m not a fan of “one size fits all” approach….
Consistency and Timing Part 1- Consistency
This is a little shower thought that I felt like writing down, so I am. This is a Two-Parter (I have long thoughts in shower so…Yeah). Okay so let me first just start by telling you how my average day is like, i.e. apart from clients, etc. So, an average day for me is…
10 Foods super-rich in magnesium
When we think about eating healthy, what comes to mind? Low fat? Low sugar? High protein? While, all of these are well and good, we often forget one other very useful nutrient. A mineral called ‘Magnesium’. What is Magnesium? It’s simple, Magnesium is a mineral that helps keep our body functioning and helps…
Misconception about Protein Intake
So, this is another facebook post turned blog post. Let me just begin by writing that there are more than one misconceptions about protein intakes, but this one is far more widespread from what I can see, so I focused on it. BTW, one of the other misconceptions about protein intake is that vegans…
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Complete Food and Nutrition Guide, 5th Ed – Review
So to begin, I’ll just say, as a Personal Trainer, this is one of the most comprehensive books I’ve read on the subject of Nutrition.
A little rant about Dieting
This is basically a copy-paste of my fb rant, so, I apologize for the tone, but I was too lazy to write the rant again and the “fire” in me settled down by the time I started writing this. Hopefully, it’ll still ring true. That’s it! Thanks for reading (In advance). You know, I’ve…
Fitness vs Wellness vs Health vs Medicine
Most people often oversimplify things. Words that mean different things but sound similar are often piled into one category, even if they’re completely different. Not many choose to research these things either. Most just want a quick resolution and will jump toward whoever offers to do so. But there’s a downside to that. We…
9 to 5 Fitness For Men & Women
Wow! It’s been quite some time since I’ve written a post. But today, I got inspired to write one based on something someone said to me. Now this is a fairly long post, but only because it has quite a lot of information in it. So, I was talking to a new client and…
Types of Stretching
So I haven’t posted in a while, as I was quite busy, but I got some time today so I thought I’d post something on a useful topic. The topic of stretching. You see, stretching is one of the most important aspects of exercising. Stretching before and after a workout does have it’s benefits, but…
What you eat will last longer than what you do in the gym
Recently, I did something that I thought I was gonna regret because I had a doubt whether my body will be able to take the physical stress that comes with it. I was running in a marathon. The fact is that I was unprepared (as I fount out about it at the last moment and…