Fit Sleep vs. Fasted Sleep! One of the more common practices of people trying to become leaner and more fit is to restrict eating after dinner and going to bed on an “empty stomach”. This sets up a metabolic scenario that is often referred to as fasted sleep, which is supported by couple basic bodily constants. First, during fasted sleep, our metabolism derives more calories from body fat especially as the clock progresses longer through sleep. And second, indulging that late

Over the past several decades there have been amazing gains in our understanding of how muscle responds to exercise and nutrition. Basically we know resistance exercise increases the processes that build protein in muscle and in turn builds muscle strength and size.(1) However, this only leads to optimal improvements over time if there is adequate daily protein intake around the training time as well as throughout the day and exceeding 2X the RDA.(2) The results of some univ

Cardiovascular exercise or simply “cardio” is a common component of many individual’s fitness regimens. Cardio exercise helps a person burn more calories and along with it fat calories, which in turn support the achievement of a leaner and/or lighter body. Performing cardio exercise at a lower intensity (e.g. 55-65% maximal heart rate) is called the “fat- burning zone” because it would allow for a higher percentage of the calories burned during exercise to come from fat.(1,