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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Interplay between Genetics & Vitamin-C
Vitamin C, ascorbic acid, is an essential water soluble requirement for our body. Our body is not capable of making Vitamin-C & we need to obtain it from our diet. Vitamin C plays an important role in our bodily processes & is useful in producing collagen- the main structural protein of tendon, ligaments & skin,
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How workout can boost your mental health?
Workout is known to stimulate your body to produce endorphins & enkephalins, body’s natural feel good hormones which help to manage problems & stress. Given the work pressure & stress during this pandemic, mental health of people specifically corporate professionals is taking a hit. Workout/physical training everyday for at least 30 minutes can not only
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You have a toned physique! Does genes have a role to play?
Have you ever observed that in spite of leading an unhealthy lifestyle, some people still look fit? Let us discuss if your genetic code has a role to play here! When we talk of fitness, both nature & nurture play an important role. If you have been training hard but are not able to see
