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By: Michael Beiter

The human brain is a fascinating thing.

One of our hardwired abilities is how we conserve energy.

Our brains and bodies are energy conserving machines. Via experience we learn what costs a lot of energy and attention and what doesn't.

If the action is pleasurable you will get a good feeling for attending to it and giving it energy. It benefitted you and in the future you will be more likely to seek that experience out. 

If the thing is painful you will get a bad feeling...

By: Michael Beiter

By: Michael Beiter

Carbohydrate cycling (carb-cycling), is the approach when a low-carbohydrate diet is paired with planned periods of moderate to high-carbohydrate consumption.

This nutrition strategy has become a hot topic over the last number of years. carbohydrate cycling, like many of the modern protocols, goes against the traditional nutrition and dieting advice.

Tradition tells us that we can only build muscle or lose fat, and never at the same time. This is because we must maintain a...

By: Michael Beiter

CBL in its most basic form is essentially the practice of delaying the intake of your daily carbohydrates.

The term ‘carbohydrate Back Loading’ was given to this practice after American training and nutrition consultant John Kiefer published his eBook called ‘carbohydrate Back Loading’.

There were many books previously published on carbohydrate cycling, but none as extensively researched and referenced as Kiefer’s. Due to some clever marketing,...

By: Michael Beiter

With nutrition and exercise we can choose where we want our body weight and body composition set points to be. Within reason.

By: Michael Beiter

A couple weeks ago I stumbled across a documentary on Netflix called That Sugar Film. In it the host decided to experiment on himself and see what would happen to his body and health if he ate the amount of sugar the average European consumed daily. 

He aimed to buy 'healthy' food products and use them as the bulk of his diet. Unbeknownst to him they all contained massive amounts of added sugar. 

It was not long before his blood pressure went up, he gained fat,...

By: Michael Beiter

In this conversation Mike talks to Becky, a long time client of coach Bridget. She has had tremendous success with her fitness and nutrition journey and she shares her insights in this back and forth.


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By: Michael Beiter