by hannah | Feb 3, 2023 | Fit Tips
You recently performed a body composition analysis via the Bod Pod (or DEXA or InBody). Your body fat percentage, defined as the percentage of your body weight that is comprised of lean muscle mass versus fat mass, is not as low as you expected or hoped. Take a deep...
by hannah | Jan 27, 2023 | Fit Tips
In 2018, Dr. Stuart Phillips (Professor of Kinesiology at MacMaster University, and perhaps the world’s leading exercise researcher) and Dr. Michael Joyner (a physician and exercise researcher at the Mayo Clinic) published the seminal article “Out-running...
by hannah | Nov 18, 2022 | Fit Tips
The preponderance of research suggests that muscle weakness is associated with negative age-related health outcomes. For the past decade, we’ve started to view muscle strength (both upper body and lower body) as a “biomarker of aging.” To be clear, researchers haven’t...
by hannah | Nov 11, 2022 | Fit Tips
Authors of a brand new systematic review and meta-analysis published in the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia, and Muscle provide our current state of the science on the effects of increased protein intake and strength training on our lean muscle tissue and muscle...
