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Functional bodybuilding is a fitness approach that combines traditional bodybuilding techniques with functional movement patterns. Its primary goal is to improve overall strength, muscle aesthetics, and functional fitness, which translates to enhanced performance in everyday activities and sports.
Coffee and chocolate: the ultimate power couple. One wakes you up; the other comforts you. One’s bold and complex; the other is smooth and rich. Alone, they’re each a delight—but together? Pure magic.
Athletes that train predominantly anaerobic pathways in a wide range of intervals and modalities have at least the cardiovascular or aerobic fitness of endurance athletes. – Greg Glassman
What we want to do is develop not an exercise science per se, but a technology of advancing human performance. – Coach Greg Glassman
Metabolic flexibility—the ability to switch between fat and carbohydrate as fuel—relates to performance and health. While traditional views place carbohydrates as the dominant fuel for high-intensity exercise, newer evidence shows that fat oxidation can be sustained at surprisingly high rates under low-carbohydrate, high-fat (LCHF) dietary conditions. The discussion drew connections to earlier research, particularly the “crossover” concept, and examined how measurement tools like respiratory quotient (RQ) and substrate oxidation calculations shape interpretations of fuel use.
Understand metabolism, save lives. -MetFix
Despite the “science” we’ve been sold in the modern nutrition space, carbs aren’t necessary for survival. In fact, the human body is so metabolically adaptive it can make glucose — from protein, fat, even lactate — when needed.
It’s not just about strength or aesthetics muscle is the most protective tissue in the human body.
I've been sounding the alarm about artificial sweeteners for a long time now...
But this new study published in Nature Metabolism is absolutely WILD and confirms everything I've been telling you about these chemical garbage ingredients: