Your skin absorbs more than 75% of the skincare products you use. If you apply lotion on your skin, anything and everything in the lotion can get absorbed right into your bloodstream. The ingredients will circulate throughout your body many times before they are filtered out by the liver, IF they are filtered out. All those ingredients you can’t pronounce – keep reading to learn why the ingredients you put on your skin may be hindering your fat loss and athletic performance, or even poisoning you. Continue reading
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Treating Injuries with Unique Supplementation
Let’s start by “geeking out” on the injury process for soft tissue and bone injuries, then we will delve into what everyone wants to know…how do I heal? However, its important for you to know what is going on when you get injured, so you are not tempted to rush the recovery process. Read on for more information on the healing process, and dietary supplements which encourage healing. Continue reading
Winter Tea Time: Snuggle Up with a Warm Mug for Endless Benefits
It’s that time of year again – cold weather, post-holiday stresses, and cold and flu viruses are all around us. Escape from it all in less than five minutes! A cup of hot tea can warm your body, prevent illness, promote weight-loss, relieve stress, and create happiness. Read on for more information on the benefits of tea. Continue reading
Improve Your Performance…Sleep.
If you could do just one thing to increase your mental power, speed, build muscle, and lose fat – would you do it? Yes? All you have to do is sleep. Sleep leads to performance.
Runners are always looking for the next best shoe, apparel, supplement, training plan to improve their performance. We spend millions of dollars trying techniques or products that will keep us injury free and achieving that elusive PR. I have found the “magic” pill, it will not cost you a thing! sleep. Sleep is one of the most overlooked aspects of training by runners, even though it is the most important aspect in preventing injury, enhancing your recovery, building strength, and improving speed.
Elite runners all know the value of sleep. Rare is the pro athlete who doesn’t nap and get at least 7 to 8 hours of sleep. Paula Radcliffe, women’s marathon world record holder, sleeps around nine hours each night and takes 1-2 hour naps in the afternoon. Why all the extra sleep? So she can rebuild stressed and damaged muscles faster. During the deepest stage of sleep the body releases human growth hormone for repairs. During this time the muscles are paralyzed allowing maximum healing. So by sleeping twice a day, she gets a double hit of the growth hormone to accelerate her recovery.
