Pea protein is a vegan protein from yellow peas. Just like all proteins from legumes pea protein is deficient in one of the essential for humans amino acid – methionine. I use a pea protein that has a PDCAAS (Protein Digestability Corrected Amino Acid Score) of 82% and this is precisely because the methionine is [...]
Yesterday, as I was doing my end-of-workout stretching in the aerobics room, I heard something that made me sick just thinking of it… It’s not something I heard for the fist time.. That’s the thing. It’s something I hear AND see pretty much every day at the bakery cafe. Here is the situation: While I [...]
First and foremost you are not going to lose weight if you are eating more calories than what you burn with the planned fat loss activity – weights, weights plus cardio, or cardio alone. That said, to most effectively lose weight you must do both – weight lifting and cardio exercise. Here is why: If [...]
Yes, it seems it exists… I just recently found out about it… and I already ordered a bottle. It’s called Palatinose. The chemical name is Isomaltulose. Palatinose is actually as close as it can get chemically to table sugar – sucrose. The only difference chemically is a little tweak with the bond between glucose and [...]
I was just reading an article about the damages in the muscle during an eccentric muscle contraction compared to concentric contraction. I’ve known for a long time that eccentric contractions cause a lot greater micro damages in the working muscle. I also knew why that happens – because during the eccentric (negative) phase of the [...]
Spending so many hours a week as an employee at the Vitamin Shoppe oftentimes gives me the time to read and research supplements and supplement ingredients. The other day, following the request of a customer, I read about Acai – the popular drink with high antioxidant properties. I read something that made me continue my [...]
British researchers found that boiling cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower) destroys the glucosinolates, contained in them. In the body glucosinolates are converted to isothiocyanates – fighting compounds. Their study showed that stir-frying, microwaving for up to 3 min or steaming for up to 20 min didn’t show significant reduction in the amount of [...]
I was reading recently my fitness magazine and a stumbled upon a little not, mentioning several websites, each of them providing some type of cool service for active people, who travel a lot. One of them was the google’s gmap pedometer. I have to admit that it took me a few minutes to figure out [...]
One of my members asked about Russian Lunges the other day. He said he’s been doing forward and reverse (backward) lunges, but he didn’t know what Russian lunges are and how to do them. So, I thought I’d post here quiclkly a short description if you happen to wonder the same thing (I’d much rather [...]
I remember about 7 – 8 years ago I used to train in the evening and there was nothing that could make me change my habit. That’s what I thought… I don’t remember exactly but it must have been an evening job that made me re-train myself and start training early in the morning. I [...]