Endurance Training & Skeletal Muscle Adaptation
As you train your muscles adapt, becoming more efficient at utilizing fuel and producing energy, so you can run, bike and swim longer.
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How to Apply Neem Oil
Neem oil is a pungent, yellow-brown oil found in the seeds of the neem tree, which originated in India. It is often used as an alternative to synthetic, chemical-based insect repellents and head lice treatments.
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What Are Ketone Bodies and Why Are They in the Body?
If you eat a calorie-restricted diet for several days, you will increase the breakdown of your fat stores. However, many of your tissues cannot convert these fatty acid products directly into ATP, or cellular energy.
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Three Places Where Carbs Are Stored in Body
Carbohydrates are your body’s most efficient fuel source, and it is the only source of fuel for certain vital tissues such as your brain and blood cells. Therefore, your body has ways of storing the carbs you eat for future use.
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Can Overtraining Cause Insomnia?
If you increase your training volume without sufficient recovery, you will eventually become overtrained.
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How to Use Hot Moist Towels in Massage Therapy
Heat treatments are used to provide health benefits, ranging from treating arthritis joint pain to increasing circulation to reducing post-exercise muscle soreness. Although you can derive benefits from heat in steam rooms or whirlpools, using hot moist towels is a convenient, inexpensive mode of heat therapy.
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What Are the Four Groups That Make Up Amino Acids?
Amino acids are the building blocks for the proteins, enzymes, hormones and neurotransmitters that your body manufactures. All amino acids share a general structure composed of four groups of molecules: a central alpha-carbon with a hydrogen atom, an amine group, a carboxyl group, and a side chain.
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Do You Burn More Fat First Thing in the Morning on an Empty Stomach?
Because your body relies on stored carbohydrate, or glycogen, in the liver to keep your glucose-dependent organs functioning during sleep, you will have relatively little carbohydrate available immediately after you wake up. Therefore, your muscles must rely more on fat as a fuel source to conserve carbohydrates.
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How Eating Carbs at Night Affects the Growth Hormone
Growth hormone is a protein hormone involved in several physiological processes such as building muscle and regulating metabolism. Other hormones, such as elevated insulin in response to carbohydrate consumption, can impair its secretion.
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What Should I Eat After a Morning Workout?
After motivating yourself to roll out of bed and hit the gym, you feel like you’re on the right track to improving your fitness.
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The Best Thing to Eat After a Run for Weight Loss
After an exhilarating run, you may be tempted to skip the post-run snack, especially if you’re trying to lose weight. However, eating after a run may actually help you shed pounds. Running depletes your muscle glycogen, or stored carbohydrate, and breaks down muscle tissue.
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Does Fat Burn Before Protein When Exercising?
The three macronutrients from the food you eat — carbohydrates, fats, and proteins — provide energy. However, your body must metabolize, or break down, these large molecules into a form that the cells can use.
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Good Foods to Eat Before a Morning Run
Although you may be tempted to head out the door on an empty stomach, eating before your morning run gives you energy and may inspire you to run that extra mile. However, the wrong pre-run snack could give you stomach troubles.
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How Long Does It Take to Acclimate to Elevation When Running a Race?
If you live and train at sea level, you will likely find it especially difficult to maintain your typical sea-level race pace at high altitude.
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What Are the Benefits of a Swim Snorkel?
Whether you are a fitness swimmer, an amateur triathlete, or an Olympic-caliber swimmer, swimming part of your workouts with a snorkel can benefit your stroke technique and body position.
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Vitamins & Nutrients in Red Meat
Although you may think swapping that steak for a chicken breast is a healthy choice, you may want to reconsider. Although red meat has a reputation for being high in saturated fat and cholesterol, lean cuts of red meat are packed with protein, iron, zinc and B-vitamins with a minimal amount of saturated fat.
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List of High-Fat Foods for a Child Who Needs to Gain Weight
If you have a child that needs to gain weight, adding some healthy foods that are high in fat may be an effective way to accomplish this. Fat is more energy-dense than carbohydrate and protein: Fat has nine calories per gram, whereas carbohydrate and protein each have four calories per gram.
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