The Importance of Calorie Counting:

Keeping track of the total number of calories you eat in a given day is quite easy once you get used to it. Once you have counted calories for awhile doing so will become second nature to you. You probably won’t even think about it anymore. You will just know how many calories you are taking in.
What are calories and what do they do for our bodies? A calorie is a unit of heat or energy. Our bodies use the calories we get from food as an energy source so that we can perform our daily life activities. The calories not burned off through these daily tasks (i.e. exercise, work, sleep etc.) are eventually converted into fat. This fat is then stored in our bodies resulting in weight gain. The following list is the five main reasons why calorie counting is so important.

Why are Evenings the Best Time to Train?

For those of you who hate getting up early in the morning, in order to train before you go to work or school, here is some good news! There has been research released in the last few years indicating that evening training sessions may be more beneficial from the perspective of building more muscle mass, reducing body fat as well as increasing your overall strength and endurance.

The Importance of Protein in Muscle Building

A Few Nutrition Basics:

Every athlete or bodybuilder needs to know how important proper nutrition is. A healthy diet absolutely has to be one of the critical building blocks in any training regime. This includes consuming the appropriate number of calories, as well as eating the correct ratio of protein, carbohydrates and fats, at the right times. Protein, fats and carbohydrates are all know as “macro-nutrients”. This means our bodies need them in large quantities. All these macro-nutrients have their own functions within the body. However, they also interact in order to perform these functions properly. Specifically, this article will look at the importance of protein in muscle building, including some interesting facts you might not know.      

The Negative Effects of Sugar on Weight Loss

So, you have decided that you want to lose some weight. The number of pounds you want to shed doesn’t really matter. If you and your doctor feel that your overall health and well being can benefit from losing, even a few pounds, then that is all that is really important.

Where to Begin....

Where do you begin in your weight loss program? No doubt, the first thing that popped into your head was, “Eat less fat!” While that is true, the very best thing you can do is to cut back on the total amount of sugar you eat. Unfortunately, there are excessive quantities of refined sugars hiding in many of the processed foods and beverages we consume every single day. Basically, these sugars can sabotage your weight loss efforts because of all their negative effects on your body. Here are a few interesting facts concerning sugar.