There are 4 things essential to changing your body-composition: Training Sleep Stress management Diet A lot of people neglect sleep and stress management which together have at least as much effect on your body-composition as your diet. When you sleep your body recovers for the next training session and builds muscle. After a poor night […]
The Sleep, Stress and Hunger Feedback Loop
This blog post was written based on a new episode on my podcast FutureSkillsPodcast.com The sleep, stress and hunger feedback loop is hormonal and it has a compounding effect. Once you mess up one of the hormones, all the other hormones become worse. Then it becomes a self-sustaining feedback loop which is hard to get out […]
How to Optimise Your Sleep for Better Fat loss and Muscle Gains
Sleep is the most underrated aspect of transforming your physique and now I’ll give you 6 reasons to why you should get good sleep: Increase satiety: Good sleep increases the satiety hormone leptin and reduces the hunger hormone ghrelin. Boost testosterone: Good sleep increases your natural testosterone production and testosterone is the main muscle building hormone […]
My Thoughts On Fitness: Mobility, Posture and Yoga (Part 11)
(1) Most people have poor posture and lack mobility because of working at a desk 8 hours a day, staring down on a smartphone screen when commuting and walking and training incorrectly. (2) Poor posture and mobility leads to poor exercise form, muscular imbalances, back pain, neck pain etc. (3) Improving posture and mobility will lead […]