by Lani Muelrath | Feb 25, 2009 | Move Your Body, Weight Loss
Ready for Part 2? Previously, I introduced the term EPOC on a blog post here: EPOC: Hot Ticket Item In You Fat Loss Toolkit?. Quick snapshot? EPOC stands for “excess post-exercise oxygen consumption”. This is the sustained oxygen consumption that takes...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 23, 2009 | All Posts
When it comes right down to it, what do we all want when it comes to building fitness and vitality? Real information, including no-nonsense facts about how to lose body fat and build muscle. I’ve already told you how glad I was to come across Eat Stop Eat, which...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 21, 2009 | All Posts
First, you might be asking, what is a post about business doing in a health and fitness blog? How is it related? My answer is easy – it is DIRECTLY related because my philosophy of fitness, bottom line, is that your fitness is a means to an end. A fit,...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 19, 2009 | All Posts
Brad Pilon’s got a NEW book out! It’s called How Much Protein? As you may already know, Brad is the author of Eat Stop Eat, which I featured in 2 previous posts, 5 Reasons To Try Mini-Fasts and Mini-Fasts, My 4-Month Report. Brad’s new book about...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 18, 2009 | All Posts, Move Your Body, Weight Loss
EPOC. I know what you’re thinking: “Oh, no, another acronym!” Well my fit friends, this is definitely one you want to know about! For it a powerful tool you want to have tucked away in your body recomposition, weight management, or fat loss arsenal....
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 9, 2009 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition
Is the protein pedestal on tilt? When it comes to protein as a necessary macronutrient for health, growth, and repair, protein is essential, right up there with carbohydrate and fat. But what about all the hoopla (propaganda?) about high amounts of protein being...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 7, 2009 | All Posts, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
We all want to feel energetic, strong, slim, and confident. We also no doubt agree that an obsession, often media driven, has skewed the quest, created unrealistic expectations, and inspired fantasies that can be detrimental and damaging in a whole heap of ways. This...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 4, 2009 | Move Your Body, Weight Loss
Do you ever wish you could just force a fitness issue and be there NOW? Listen: You can’t just force fat off your body. Our bodies just don’t work that way. The question still comes up – how to move fitness or fat loss forward as quickly as...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 3, 2009 | All Posts
A flood of blog comments, emails, and other responses have been flowing in with regards to the blog posts Mini Meals And Metabolism: Fact Or Fitness Myth? and 6 Reasons Mini Meals Might Work For you. The responses have been as varied and rich as the women...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 2, 2009 | All Posts, Move Your Body
There’s more than political change in the White House; it appears we have a Commander-in-Chief who is fitter than the last few, and that can only be good publicity for the fitness cause! Everyone saw the photograph of a bare-chested Obama strolling Sandy Beach...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 1, 2009 | All Posts
OK. It’s already been established that eating Mini-Meals, or spreading your caloric intake out over several eating events during the day, does not impact metabolic rate or on its own burn more calories than fewer meals eaten over the course of the day. For all...