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How Smartphones are impacting our sleep?
Smartphones are an essential part of our daily life. We are able to leverage technology through smartphones to perform various trivial as well as important tasks. However, does using smartphones have a negative impact on our sleep? Let us find out. We are living in a world surrounded by electronic gadgets such as laptops, tablets,…
Nutrition for mental health
In today’s work-dominated world, we seldom get time to take care of the most important aspect – health & fitness. Unwanted work pressure has pushed back our health needs to the bottom of our priorities. Given the current pandemic scenario, we thought of sharing some important aspects that will help you manage your time well,…
Truth about BCAA
Branched chain amino acids also known as BCAA is a group of three essential amino acids-leucine, isoleucine & valine. We have discussed basics about BCAA in our earlier blog. Briefly, BCAA are the building block of proteins. Our body uses 21 amino acids & our body makes a lot of them itself. However 9 of…
Does drinking harm your exercise performance?
A lot of people have a usual habit of drinking after (instead of before) the workout! A number of studies have been conducted in the past to evaluate the pattern of alcohol consumption. However, only few studies can be found that have evaluated the impact of consuming alcohol before a workout. The impact of alcohol…
How Sleep impacts your training & nutrition?
Everyone wants to stay in shape & maintain that healthy physique. There has been a lot of information floating around about how to maintain & build a fit body & the advice on this narrows down to quantified nutrition coupled with strength/resistance training. It sounds simple, right? However, it is not so – such advice…
Does your genetic makeup determine the incidence of chronic diseases?
This is the right time to assess your overall lifestyle habits and evaluate how they influence your choices in good workout, sleep, stress management & social influence. Knowing answers to all these questions can help take appropriate decisions & take better care of your health & fitness. This will enable you to prevent occurrence of…
Should cheat meals be a part of your diet strategy?
In our daily lives, we hear the phrase “Cheat meal” quite often! The concept of “cheat meal” was invented because of our inability to stick to one particular diet for a long period of time. Cheat meal is meant to let you try something cheesy or which meets your food dopamine when you are eating…
Plyometric Exercises
A lot of us may not have heard of Plyometric exercises although we may have performed them sometime in our life. Let us discuss this form of workout today & how it impacts our strength. Plyometric exercises are a form of power training that helps us build stability & elasticity of muscles by increasing the…
Why should we rest after a workout session?
Do you experience muscle soreness after workout? Yes, almost everyone does! Soreness typically occurs when you expose your body to a particular stress you are not used to like a new exercise or a sport. Soreness is associated with microtrauma which makes your muscles adapt to training. Soreness is worse when you are engaged in…
Is Spot Reduction the perfect recipe for weight loss?
A lot of fitness aspirants contact me & ask somewhat similar questions – I want to build 6 pack abs, what exercise should I do & my answer to them is Spot Reduction does not work. Since a lot of people have this misconception about spot reduction, I decided to pen down my thoughts on…
