Plateaus - I’m talking about those frustrating times when you’re stuck: you stop losing fat and you stop gaining muscle. To blast through plateaus, the first step is to try alternating one month on a weight gain cycle with one month on a fat loss cycle. This way your metabolism never adapts and you avoid [...]
How do you know which nutritional supplements to take?Before I answer that, let me re-state the case for taking supplements. To begin with, our foods today are not as nutritious as they once were - a result of poor environmental stew-ardship. Modern farming methods, for example, have depleted the soil in many areas of the country, ul-timately reducing the nutrients in food. Also, weight-loss diets, exer-cise, and stress increase our need for nutrients. Cooking can destroy certain vitamins too.Further, many people do not eat nutritiously enough to even satisfy the recommended daily intake for vitamins and minerals, according to several studies.
