These “All About Articles” will cover key strategies for measuring and improving your body composition, including how to measure your body fat as well as how to reduce it. To stay up to date, subscribe to the Precision Nutrition RSS Feed or sign up for weekly email updates.
Glucomannan, from konjac root, is a form of beneficial soluble fibre that can improve bowel health, blood sugar and lipids, and other health conditions. It can also help you lose fat and stay lean by improving satiety and appetite hormones.
Acne is a multi-factorial disease. While each case is unique, you can greatly improve your chances of clear skin by eating whole foods; lowering inflammation and stress; getting a good fatty acid balance; and cutting down the worst offenders: wheat, sugar, and dairy.
Got enough room to swing a cat? Got opposable thumbs? Then you can swing a kettlebell! Learn about this popular and effective training tool that can help you get strong, fast, and lean. (Oh yeah, and give you a pleasing posterior chain — aka a nice butt.)
Carrying a lot of excessive body fat makes health, body composition, and athletic performance worse. But here’s the problem — collectively, we’re not very good at losing fat either. We need a better solution. Knowing how fat loss works may be helpful.
Recipe for muscle growth: Lift heavy thing. Eat protein. Sleep. Repeat.
Searching for the most efficient way to get lean, get conditioned, and get tough? Look no further than HIIT. We can’t promise it’s easy… but it sure gets results.
No, it’s not a new superhero: G-Flux is a new way to think about how your body uses energy — and how to harness that power to get lean while eating abundantly.
You’ve learned about what to eat to meet your health and body composition goals. But what about when you eat it?
“Energy balance” is the relationship between “energy in” (food calories taken into the body through food and drink) and “energy out” (calories being used in the body for our daily energy requirements). This relationship, which is defined by the laws of thermodynamics, dictates whether weight is lost, gained, or remains the same. Control your energy balance, and you control your body composition.
If you often grumble about not being full or always being hungry, you may have beachfront property in the world of negative dietary displacement. Are you relying on fake foods to meet your nutrient and satiety needs?
If you have a set of directions for constructing a desk and you only follow 50% of the instructions, what happens? Well, the same is true when you have a set of directions for getting lean and healthy, and you only follow half of them. To succeed in any endeavour — whether furniture or body recomposition — you must be able to measure your progress and the outcome of your efforts.
Berardi’s First Law states that “If a food is in your possession or located in your residence, either you, someone you love, or someone you marginally tolerate will eventually eat it.” In order to get the body you want, you have to surround yourself with good stuff… and purge the stuff that’s holding you back. Get the garbage bags and compost bin ready!
It’s hard to be a star basketball player when you’re five feet tall. It’s also hard to be an elite marathon runner when your body wants to hang on to every ounce of mass it’s got; or to be a great Highland Games athlete when you weigh barely more than the thing you’re throwing. Body type — whether ecto, meso, or endomorph — can determine what sports suit you best, as well as what you should be eating to fuel your activities. Yes, it’s true — those darn ectos can get away with a little extra pasta!
A strict nutritional regimen of low calories or low carbohydrates can be hard on the body and the spirit, especially over the long haul. For high-level nutrition programs, one solution to this dilemma is carb cycling.
