Do everything you can to put the body into a caloric deficit, while simultaneously doing everything possible to keep the metabolism high. If you achieve this, you’ll achieve your health and fitness goals.

You may have heard that muscle mass burns a lot of calories, and this is true. Muscle is what we call metabolically active. A lot of muscle on a body is like a big engine in a car– it burns a lot of gas, or food. Fat, on the other hand, is metabolically passive. It’s like a real efficient 4-cylinder– great gas mileage. So what happens when you put the body into a caloric deficit for an extended period of time?

There’s a very fancy buzz word that you hear all of the time nowadays– metabolism. Everybody talks about how important it is to have a high metabolism, but nobody seems to really know exactly what the metabolism is.

In my years as a trainer, I’ve encountered so many half-truths (and complete falsehoods) about exercise and healthy diet that my head starts to spin.
Oprah Winfrey alone should be made to pay for all of your gym memberships for all of the disinformation she has spread on her show during the past year.

I have one personal training client who has multiple sclerosis, or MS, which is an autoimmune disease where an individual’s immune system attacks his or her central nervous system over time. In doing so, the nerve cells in the brain and the nerve cells in the spine lose the ability to communicate. This leads to
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