Think of a calorie as a unit of energy, just like a meter and a foot are units of distance, and minute and hour are units of time. We get energy from food, energy to run our bodies and our minds and stay alive, this energy we call calories. Think…

As a personal trainer running a business out of a small home gym, the following are my top ten absolute essentials, without which you will be unable to perform many of the most effective exercises to get yourself fit, strong and healthy. …

Part 3 — Recovery Your body uses your time asleep to get a lot done, including repairing and building muscle. Besides training and nutrition, recovery is the third corner in the triangle to building muscle or in fact any fitness pursuit. Once you have applied the stimulus that causes change…

Part 2 — Nutrition For this “patching up” or recovery to happen, we need a couple things to be in place, first of which is nutrition. We need to have adequate nutrition to support muscle growth and repair. Now that we are applying a stimulus or a reason for the…

Part 1 — Stimulus Your body will build muscle if the stress you put onto it to move a certain way, is enough for it to want to adapt. This is a good question, and keeping the answer black and white as we do here won’t be easy. …

If you consume more calories than you use, you’ll store the extra as body fat. If you get less calories than you need, you’ll use up some of your stored body fat. Calories. That’s all it comes down to, if you consume more than you use, you will store the…

There are hundreds of diets to follow and people are vastly different in their biology and their preferences, but whole foods versus processed foods is a surprisingly simple choice, and one I strongly believe everybody would benefit from at least understanding. — — — — — — — — —…