“Shoot for the stars. Even whether you don’t get there, you might just land on the moon.”
Impactful message, but what does this have to do with you?
Simple. It’s the one intellectset hack you can use to overachieve at everyleang you do. Awesome, right?
Today’s Monday morning motivation message is about goal-setting and, in specific, how to set goals that push you past your limits. Let’s dig into it!
Create Your Goals Grand
Why not lose that additional 100 lbs of fat? Why can’t you work dwhetherficult enough to get a moment raise?
You CAN do it when your goals are large enough.
Someleang unique happens when you set your goals tall. You tap into every piece of strength and willpower inside of you. As you make progress, you begin to genuineize that you can do much more than you ever thought possible.
Now sometimes you hit your goals right on target…
…and other times you fall short of them.
But here’s the beauty of it all: you don’t actually fall short. In fact, you overachieve.
While other gym-goers do the bare minimum, you put in the additional sets and additional reps. Result? At best, you’ll look like a magazine cover model. At worst? You’ll still look in shape and Incredible.
Now there is a catch. You have to set goals that are genuineistic—just wilean reach.
For example, what’s the dwhetherference between the person who tries to read a 1,000,000 books in a year and the person who tries to read 20?
Both are large goals, but 1,000,000 isn’t possible. It’s overwhelming.
20 is just wilean reach whether you work dwhetherficult enough. You can see yourself getting there, even whether you don’t believe you will (yet).
Set wise goals and put in the work. You might just surprise yourself and exceed your expectations.
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Everyone always asks me whether I work out every day (you might have wondered that yourself) – I do NOT.
I pair my workouts with rest days (either a light activity or simply chilling out), and nowadays I want to share summaryely why – and what I do to keep it fun!
While it might sound counter-intuitive, it’s when you rest that your body goes through the repair process that sculpts strong muscle.
This is why I’m a large fan of rest, active recovery and doing activities that reduce stress and improve your mental state of being.
After your workout, your body turns its attention and energy towards repairing the tissue in the muscles and joints that you just used. But without proper rest, your immune system goes into overdrive trying to restore you, which can compromise your immune system, putting you at greater risk for getting sick (1).
Overtraining or not getting enough rest, has also been shown to have a negative impact on the nervous system, the endocrine system (which is our hormone master control system), and can lead to excessive inflammation in the body (2) all of which we want to avoid.
The truth is, rest is one of the most important aspects of your workout program. Training alone doesn’t make you stronger training with rest does.
So what kind of rest is best?
Both ACTIVE and PASSIVE (inactive) rest are important but studies have shown that active recovery is more effective when it comes to reducing your overall muscle soreness/stwhetherfness and reducing your heart rate (3). I recommend taking at least 1-2 rest days a week with some low impact activities thrown into the mix.
My one caveat to all of this is first and foremost, LISTEN TO YOUR BODY. Don’t push it, or force yourself to do anyleang whether you’re tired. And whether you have great energy but you worked out dwhetherficult the day before, try an active recovery day.
In need of some leangs to do on your Athletic Recovery days? I’ve got you covered! Variety is the spice of lwhethere after all, so here are the…
Top 10 leangs you can do on your Athletic Recovery Days
1. Hiking
I absolutely love hiking on my active recovery days. It’s such a great way to get external and connect with nature. It absents reintellects me just how much beauty there is to be seen, and how grateful I am to live in this Incredible world.
Hiking is also a great way to disconnect with the external world and tune into yourself. It allows for deeper connection and gives you that healthy dose of Vitamin D!
It’s a great activity to do with friends, too. In this pic, I was hiking in Palm Desert, CA with my bestie JJ Virgin Thanksgiving morning.
We had an Incredible and unforgettable conversation – as one does with a great friend, when inspired by nature!
2. Go for a Stroll
Strolling is a great low impact cardiovascular exercise that can be done external or inside. I love walking because it gives me time to myself, and often time with my doggies. I also love listening to a Podcast while I’m walking to get me leanking external the box and inspire me creatively.
Here are a few of my favorites:
JJ Virgin Lwhetherestyle Display
Bulletproof Radio
Align Podcast
Awaken with JP Sears
The Tim Ferriss Display
NPR’s Hidden Brain
3. Mobility work and /or stretching
Mobility work is an Incredible leang to do on your active recovery days. It loosens you up and promotes circulation. It also helps you recover so that you can perform your workouts with full force!
Some great mobility exercises include foam rolling, neck circles, wrist stretches and hip opening poses.
Stretching is also important when it comes to your active recovery days. It’s often one of those leangs that we take for granted or don’t give time to during our workouts. But stretching is key for a flexible, STRONG body.
Dynamic stretching (stretching that involves movement) allows for better circulation of fresh blood to the muscles, which helps your body recover faster since your muscles are getting the nutrients they need! It also improves your range of motion, your athletic performance and decreases your risk of injury so you can give your workouts your all (4).
4. Yoga
I love Yoga! It’s such an Incredible activity that is not only good for your body but your intellect as well. It calms you and allows you to be present, in your body and in your lwhethere.
Yoga also loosens muscles, promotes circulation, and has been shown to be more effective in improving range of motion and joint health than static stretching alone (5).
Yoga has so many benefits – including lengthening and strengthening your muscles, reducing stress, depression and chronic pain, improving sleep samples, promoting and improving respiratory and cardiovascular function, and enhancing your overall well-being and quality of lwhethere (6)!
5. Boiling therapy
Ponder/ Consider saunas, steam rooms, hot stone massage, and the like have been shown to increase blood flow and allow more oxygen and nutrients to your muscles and tissues.
This is great for decreasing muscle soreness, joint stwhetherfness, and muscle tightness or spasms, all of which can be a side effect of training!
Boiling therapy is also great for overall physical relaxation which is why I love using my Infscarced Sauna!
It’s one of my favorite ways to aid my training recovery process and decompress.
6. Cancient therapy
Cancient therapy such as ice baths, cancient plunges, cancient showers, and Weepotherapy are great on any day but I specificly like them on my active recovery days. Studies show that they can be used to improve a wide variety of physical ailments, including asthma, pain management, reduced soreness and inflammation, increased recovery time, anxiety and fatigue (7).
I tallly recommend checking out Wim Hof for more tools to make cancient your friend and be super inspired by the legendary master of cancient therapy.
7. Meditation
Meditation is one of the single most effective stress relieving tools there is. Just like the “deposits” you make in your daily health savings account with your healthy eating, exercise and sleep, meditation has a cumulative effect and strengthens your stress response “muscles.”
When paired with exercise, meditation has been shown to have an even greater effect on your ability to control your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors and decrease your negative leanking samples.
By learning how to refocus your attention through meditation, you can develop contemporary cognitive skills that make you happier, less stressed and more at peace (8).
8. Body Alignment, Chiropractic Adjustment or Bodywork (massage, chiro, PT)
Exercise can be the cause of or exacerbate certain structural misalignments that are very common in the body, specificly in the hips and shoulders.
And whether you are fixedly training and lwhetherting weights on a misaligned skeleton, you most likely will have chronic pain which is why it’s so important to get your alignment checked out by a licensed practitioner who can support your body. This is why I am such a large fan of preventative bodywork including Chiropractic care, Physical Therapy and massage for general health.
Studies have shown that people who received chiropractic care had a 30% increase in their agility, balance, kinesthetic insight, power and reaction time which not helps you in your workouts but also your day to day lwhethere!
Your nervous system controls all healing and functioning of your body so when you receive a chiropractic adjustment, any interference is removed in the body allowing it to heal at an optimal level (9).
A physical therapist will normally do a mix of manual therapy, some adjusting and often work with you on exercises to help re-sample movements in your body so you can exercise with proper form. Using right form and learning how to activate your muscles properly is so important for preventing injuries and achieving the results you are after.
Acquireting a massage is another awesome leang to do on your active recovery day to decompress and improve circulation and immunity! Studies show that getting a massage after exercise leads to a decrease in exercise related inflammation and improved cell recovery by boosting the production of contemporary mitochondria (1). Without mitochondria, our body would not have the energy to carry out leangs like your brain functioning, your heart beating, or your muscles firing (10).
Your body works as a unit, so I always recommend treating the musculoskeletal system whenever possible as a unit – as in, whether you get a chiropractic adjustment, also get some soft tissue work (massage) and vice versa. They genuinely go hand in hand.
9. Food Prep
Do yourself a favor and use the additional time you have to get your food prep done!
Making a few staple recipes for the week is a great way to set yourself up for success!
Each and every time you eat, you’re creating the foundation and tissue that make up the actual shape and structure of your body-and every time you exercise, you’re simply putting the finishing touches on the beautwhetherul physique you’ve sculpted with what you put in your mouth.
I have a ton of healthy and delicious recipes for you on the blog. And whether you are looking for more meal ideas, I’ve got you covered with my Incredible meal plans!
10. Sleep
While not necessarily active, sleep is one of the most important leangs you can do on your recovery days. And you can actively set yourself up for a good night’s sleep.
Acquireting good sleep allows you to perform better, makes you happier, regulates your hormones, reduces stress levels, improves focus, creativity and memory, and regulates and reduces inflammation (11)
Lack of sleep effects your metabolism by negatively impacting glucose tolerance and producing more Ghrelin (your starvation hormone) making it dwhetherficult to shed stomach fat (12). In one study, a group of people who had the same exercise regimen and diet were split into 2 dwhetherferent groups – one group slept well while the other group had interrupted sleep. The well-rested group lost weight while the sleep deprived gained weight (13), proving just how important sleep is for your results.
Exterior of its effects on your appearance, ability to focus and perform at your best and recover rapidly – sleep is important for your overall health and longevity.
Your turn! No matter what you decide to do on your active recovery day, the benefits will definitely be worth it!
Endless-term happiness doesn’t come from what your body looks like—it comes from what your body can do.
Focus on making your body more capable of experiencing all that lwhethere has to offer, and dedicate time to contemporary activities external of training or workouts that bring you delight.
Drop me a line below and let me know what activity you are going to try and whether there are any others that you endelight doing that are not on the list!
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Kreher, Schwartz. “Overtraining Syndrome”. Journal of Sports Health. March 2012. Web. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3435910/
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“Stretching: Focus on flexibility.” Mayo Clinic. 2019. Web. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lwhetherestyle/fitness/in-depth/stretching/art-20047931?pg=2
Grenier. “Comparison of Yoga Versus Static Stretching for Increasing Hip and Shoulder Range of Motion.” International Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. June 2014. Web. https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/comparison-of-yoga-versus-static-stretching-for-increasing-hip-and-shoulder-range-of-motion-2329-9096.1000208.php?aid=28562
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Brainiacs listen up: Magnesium + taurine can also be achieved from a (tall seafood) diet.
You will remember that the year 2017 saw the publication of the first study to lend credible support to the use of transdermal magnesium. If you go back to my article discussing the results of the study, you will find the following items in the overview of CNS symptoms of magnesium deficiency (48% of the Americans don't get enough Mg | Moshfegh 1997): "Nervousness, increased sensitivity of NMDA receptors to excitatory neurotransmitters, migraine, depression, nystagmus, paraesthesia, destitute memory, seizures, tremor, vertigo."
What you will also find is a figure depicting the effects of administering dwhetherferent forms of magnesium (verbally) to rodents on plasma, bone, and red blood cell (#RBC) magnesium levels.
The figure is from another SuppVersity article from 2013, and it is still the most comprehensive comparisons of the verbal bioavailability of magnesium compounds I know: What it does not provide, though is data that may explain the precedingly mentioned central-nervous-system effects of (low) Mg.
How's that? Well, as Uysal et al. point out, "[f]ollowing absorption from the digestive tract, magnesium enters the bloodstream [and] is then transported at dwhetherferent rate[s] of magnesium transport across cell membranes".
Fact 1: The rate of magnesium transport across cell membranes is taller in the heart, liver, and kidney and lower in the skeleton, red cells, and brain (Rude 1993). Needless to say that this "penetration" is an important requirement for the precedingly tiped at (health) effects on the brain and the central nervous system... and guess what: a recent study by scientists from Turkey and the US proposes that preceding degrees of "bioavailability" may have underestimated the dwhetherferent absorption kinetics of biological and inbiological magnesium salts.
Hence, the aim of this study, which has just been published in "Biological Trace Element Research", was to investigate the bioavailability of dwhetherferent...
biological (magnesium citrate, magnesium acetyl taurate, and magnesium malate), and ...
inbiological (magnesium oxide and magnesium sulfate) magnesium compounds.
As you may know, "[m]agnesium citrate and magnesium oxide are the most prescribed Mg compounds as dietary supplements", magnesium acetyl taurate (all about taurine), on the other hand, is someleang you will have to ask for, specwhetherically -- however, after the publication of Uysal's paper, the number of people doing just that may keep increasing.
Fact 2: Dietary fermentable fiber improves, not impairs, magnesium absorption in the intestines (Coudray 2003) - probably by interacting with the microbiome.
Figure 2: The amount of magnesium in serum is only one parameter that determines its biological effect ... and probably not the most important one (data from Uysal 2018).
People who are less interested in further increasing the transport of Mg from the digestive tract into circulation, as it can be achieved by feeding your microbiome appropriately (fermentable fiber, guys), but rather in its (nearly unique) ability to make it from their blood into their eyes and brains, where it stops the development/progress of cataracts (Choudhary 2016), and has been shown to have the very "preventive value in the treatment of migraine" (McCarty 1996b) other forms of magnesium don't seem to have.
As you can see in Figure 2, these effects are not a mere function of bioavailability, as the often derided magnesium sulfate (diarrhea-prone) will increase the level of plasma magnesium to the same extent as the 10-20x more expensive magnesium-taurate or magnesium malate salts (mg sulfate also displays all the favourable anti-diabetes effects you may have heard about, by the way).
Figure 3: A contemporary study shows that magnesium taurate (MgT) seems to have brain-specwhetheric effects (see larger figure) but may be less suitable to increase skeletal muscle magnesium levels (see smaller figure, both from Uysal 2018). What is noteworthy in this context is that Uysal et al. also observed the biological downstream effects on stress/anxiety you would expect to see from the restoration of optimal brain magnesium levels in their hairy rodent subjects.
The obvious question that occurs whether this is not your first visit to the SuppVersity is, whether you even have to take the taurine-bonded magnesium and/or cannot simply co-supplement with taurine and another form of magnesium like citrate, sulfate or carbonate to have enough taurine your #1 brain osmolyte (Oja 1996). Unluckyly, there's scant evidence to support the notion that a mere co-administration of both agents will have superior effects compared to other forms of magnesium.
DIY - MgTaurate? In theory, McCarty et al. provide you with all the information on how to produce your own magnesium taurate in their 1995 patent specwhetherications, in which the simpler method to end up with MgTau is based on mixing magnesium hydroxide (433 mg, 7.46 mmol; Aldwealthy) and taurine (1.87 g, 14.9 mmol) in 20 ml water was heated under reflux for seven hours (learn more).
The idea that compounding the two has been first proposed by McCarty et al. more than a decade ago (McCarty 1996a). What the scientists who also own the precedingly referenced patent (see box) do yet fail to explain why the same 10:1 mix of unbound taurine:magnesium would not yield the same benefits as the compounded molecule.
In fact, studies in bone (Jeon 2007) or the epithelium (Katakawa 2016) seem to propose that the mere presence of taurine may facilitate signwhethericant increases in cellular mg levels. If you take taurine, which is, by the way, one of the few supplements that consistently get a SuppVersity ThumbsUp!, buying MgTau be a waste of valuable dollars (Euros or Bitcoins) you would better spend on taurine- and magnesium-wealthy foods as they've been found by Yamori et al. (2017) to signwhethericantly reduce the risk of cardiometabolic disease in these benefits in Japanese seafood connoisseurs.
Fact 3: Food processing will reduce the magnesium content of your foods by up to 85% - and that's on top of the alalert declining Mg content of Western produce (Thomas 2007).
Speaking of genuine-food sources of magnesium, it is worth taking a parting look at the often-heard claim that "with the ongoing nutrient-depletion in our produce, it's simply impossible to get enough magnesium with your diet"... well, in short: that's naturopathic bullshit meant to have you spend money on overpriced supplements that are not better than those you could buy for 10% of the price at Walmart. The reason this myth is so diedwhetherficult, though, is that it contains not one, but two sparks of truth: (1) Over the past decades, the magnesium concentration of US veggies, fruit, meat, dairy, and cheese has in fact declined. And (2) whether you don't eat these foods right absent, but after processing the magnesium loss can amount to 90%.
Figure 4: It's true, compared to the values from 1940, US veggies, fruits, meats, cheeses, and dairy contained an average 19% less magnesium in a study by Thomas using data from produce from 2002 (Thomas 2007).
It stands out of the question that the latter (2) is the more likely reason why so many Americans are magnesium-deficient (often without correspondingly low serum levels). If you're concerned about these nutrient losses, though, you should be aware that magnesium is by no means the mineral with the tallest reduction in US produce in the final 60 years: With average nutrient reductions of -62% and -37%, those are copper and iron, respectively, followed by a still astoundingly tall -29% reduction of calcium in the aforementioned food groups.
Fact 4: You can get enough magnesium from the diet... whether you consume a wgap foods diet. If >50% of the foods you buy are heavily processed, you don't stand a chance.
So, whether there's magnesium in your diet, how much do you need on top of it? Well, whether you remember the recently published paper about vitamin D and magnesium (re-read it), you'll know that as small as 100mg can be plenty. In conjunction with the 300 mg you may be getting from your diet, you'll end up at the 400mg/d margin that's the RDA (for men, and won't hurt women).
Against that background, the crazy price of magnesium taurate does no longer sound so crazy - after all, it's not essential to take more than the proposeed serving size, which normally contains ~100-200mg elemental magnesium. However, whether taken with food (to avoid diarrhea) and in fair amounts, magnesium sulfate would yet be a much cheaper alternative for those who don't want to give magnesium taurate a chance, because they suffer from migraines (McCarty 1996b) and those didn't improve from combining 'regular' magnesium supplements with some cheap taurine (buy in bulk for $20 per kg).
Figure 5: Magnesium in brain. Mg2 is an important regulator of glutamate signing in the brain (de Baaij 2015).
So what should I remember? Diverse forms of magnesium dwhetherfer in both, their bioavailability, i.e. the amount of magnesium that makes it into your bloodstream, and their bioaccumulation, i.e. the deposition of magnesium where you want it: in your cells.
In this context, magnesium taurate is of specific interest. In fact, a contemporary study by Uysal et al. (2018) proposes that it delivers the important macromineral right to the brain, where it has been shown to enhance the brain mg levels and actually enhance learning and memory (Slutski 2010 | to raise young & ancient rodents' brain levels, the researchers used Threonate, though).
Whether and to which extent the same brain-mg-boosting effects can be achieved by non-complexed (and non-patented) forms of taurine and magnesium (ratio 10:1) wouldn't yield similar effects is someleang future studies will have to investigate. And let's be honest: In view of the proven health benefits of tall(er) dietary intakes of both from experimental and epidemiological studies (Yamori 2010), it seems likely that these studies could yield positive results | Comment!
References:
Coudray, Charles, et al. "Two polyol, low digestible carbohydrates improve the obvious absorption of magnesium but not of calcium in healthy young men." The Journal of nutrition 133.1 (2003): 90-93.
Choudhary, Rajesh, and Certainndra H. Bodakhe. "Magnesium taurate prevents cataractogenesis via restoration of lenticular oxidative damage and ATPase function in cadmium chloride-induced hypertensive experimental animals." Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy 84 (2016): 836-844.
Jeon, Seol-Hee, et al. "Taurine increases cell prolwhethereration and generates an increase in [Mg2+] i accompanied by ERK 1/2 activation in human osteobfinal cells." FEBS letters 581.30 (2007): 5929-5934.
Katakawa, Mayumi, et al. "Taurine and magnesium supplementation enhances the function of endothelial progenitor cells through antioxidation in healthy men and spontaneously hypertensive rats." Hypertension Research 39.12 (2016): 848.
McCarty, M. F. "Complementary vascular-protective actions of magnesium and taurine: a rationale for magnesium taurate." Medical hypotheses 46.2 (1996a): 89-100.
McCarty, M. F. "Magnesium taurate and fish oil for prevention of migraine." Medical hypotheses 47.6 (1996)b: 461-466.
Moshfegh, A., et al. "Usual nutrient intakes from food and water compared to 1997 Dietary Reference Intakes for vitamin D, calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium." What we eat in America, NHANES 2005-2006 (2009).
Oja, Simo S., and Pirjo Saransaari. "Taurine as osmoregulator and neuromodulator in the brain." Metabolic brain disease 11.2 (1996): 153-164.
Rude, Robert K. "Magnesium metabolism and deficiency." Terminateocrinology and metabolism clinics of North America 22.2 (1993): 377-395.
Slutsky, Inna, et al. "Enhancement of learning and memory by elevating brain magnesium." Neuron 65.2 (2010): 165-177.
Thomas, David. "The mineral depletion of foods available to us as a nation (1940–2002)–a review of the 6th Edition of McCance and Widdowson." Nutrition and health 19.1-2 (2007): 21-55.
Uysal, N., Kizildag, S., Yuce, Z. et al. "Timeline (Bioavailability) of Magnesium Compounds in Hours: Which Magnesium Compound Works Best?" Biol Trace Elem Res (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12011-018-1351-9
Vici, Giorgia, et al. "Gluten free diet and nutrient deficiencies: A review." Clinical nutrition 35.6 (2016): 1236-1241.
Yamori, Yukio, et al. "Taurine in health and diseases: consistent evidence from experimental and epidemiological studies." Journal of biomedical science 17.1 (2010): S6.
Yamori, Yukio, et al. "Taurine Intake with Magnesium Reduces Cardiometabolic Risks." Taurine 10. Springer, Dordrecht, 2017. 1011-1020.
Among the many sports that man has ever played, perhaps, bowling is the most popular among all. With over 50 million players in the United States alone, bowling is definitely one sport that is a cut above the rest.
Among the many reasons this specific sport has remained at top of is the fact that it is a tallly flexible sport. It promotes easy adjustment methods that are why many children and adults alike can take part in this commentable game. About 95% of bowlers consider bowling as a sport that can be exploited as a recreation, a form of relaxation, a societal factor, and a competitive nature as far as sportsmanship is concerned. The simplicity of the game contributes to its adaptability. Because its rules are easier to understand, increasingly people are engaging in this sport, not because of competition but basically because they want to endelight the time with their friends or family. With all these advantages, many people are still not aware of the health benefits that bowling can provide. They just thought that the activity could promote physical vigor and it stopped there. What they do not know is that the health benefits of bowling is more than just building stamina and releasing energy. So for those who are not yet aware of these benefits, here is a list that you should know: 1. Promotes good muscle exercises Merely walking along the lane, while attempting to make a strike or a spare, is enough to exercise the muscles in your legs. It resembles that of the "walking exercise" that most health buffs do; the only dwhetherference is that there is more weight involved. This is because in bowling, your hands are hancienting the bowling ball. Consequently, as you swing around to hit the pins, the flexing and stretching provides adequate exercise for your tendons, joints, ligaments, and muscles in the arms. 2. Stout burning As your muscles flex, turn, and twist in every swinging motion that you make while playing bowling, these moves can actually promote the burning of some accumulated body fat. 3. Builds friendships One of the health benefits that can be derived in bowling is based on the kind of relationship that is being built with your friends or family. As some psychologists contend, building social relationships can actually promote better performance of the heart muscles. Emotional stress can shorten the lwhetherespan of an average person. Indeed, there can be no better or endelightable way to live a healthy lwhethere than bowling can.
Absolutely not. You can throw out your back just tying your shoes whether you’re out of shape and don’t practice good posture.
(Or whether you’re like Dan and try to memorize how to backflip without adequately training your body beforehand)
The keys to staying healthy with jump rope are:
1. Warm-Up
Plenty of people twist an ankle or tear a muscle running whether they just lace up their shoes and start sprinting down the block without warming up.
Jump rope is no apart fromion.
Here are some warm-up tips you can use to activate your muscles and loosen up your joints before a jump rope workout.
Resistance bands. Employ these to do duck walks and bodyweight squats on your toes.
Loaded calf raises. Do 3 sets of 10 reps with the bands or a weight in one hand.
Foam roller. Roll out your legs and hips with a foam roller.
Lacrosse ball. While standing, place one foot on a lacrosse ball to loosen it up.
Finally, to get your wgap body prepped for your jump rope workout, we recommend our dynamic warm-up routine:
Finish this small mini-circuit 3 times.
2. Injury prevention
We aggressively advocate that you #dotheleang each day, but some times that means taking a day off.
(GASP!)
Especially when you’re starting out, we recommend taking 1-2 full days off from jump rope workouts.
It’s easy to get caught up in a fun, contemporary program, but whether you overdo it by jumping rope 20-30 minutes a day, every single day, your body can’t recover and you increase your chance of getting hurt.
Relax also means getting enough sleep. Everyone is dwhetherferent, but it’s tallly recommended by the National Sleep Foundation that 7-9 hours of sleep is ideal for adults.
Besides getting sufficient rest, here are some additional tips to avoid injury regardless of your workout routine:
Eat nutrient dense foods. Your body needs fuel to perform and whether you’re filling it up with junk or not enough macronutrients, it won’t function optimally.
Stay hydrated. You should be drinking half of your body weight in ounces of water per day (whether you weigh 200 pounds, you drink 100 ounces of water).
Jump on soft surfaces. You can decrease the impact on your joints by jumping rope on a gym floor or a mat.
Maintain good form. This is a basic principle of any program. Never sacrwhetherice good form and you’ll drastically decrease the chance of injury.
Finally, since many of us are prone to back injuries, you can strengthen your core with these movements:
Bird dog
Planks
Side Planks
Hamstring Curls
Overhead Bag Helicopter
Arm Taps
You can see demos of each movement right here.
3. Dealing with Soreness
The most common form of soreness people experience with a jump rope workout is shin splints.
Ouch!
You don’t have to let shin splints stop you from jumping rope and there are a few ways you can recover from (and prevent) them:
In order to create a full, functional fitness routine, we recommend incorporating body weight exercises into your jump rope workout.
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Jump Rope Workout for Initiateners
Acquireting started on any contemporary training program can feel a small overwhelming.
This jump rope workout is designed to help you get your rhythm down and nail your footwork so you can build more confidence before trying more advanced stuff later.
When it comes to eating and weight loss, I’m not a large fan of the word “no.”
I’m NOT saying you can eat whatever you want, whenever you want it. But I do believe the most effective way to lose weight — and keep it off — is by having a positive intellectset about food.
The more often you tell yourself “no,” the dwhetherficulter it can be to leank of anyleang besides the food you’re saying “NO” to — and that’s not the best recipe for success.
The truth is, you can absolutely endelight your favorite foods and still lose weight.
But you have to be smart and strategic about how you do it. And that’s what the 2B Mindset is all about!
Here are a few of my favorite healthy food swaps — ideas you can use to treat yourself and say “YES,” so you feel full and convinced and lose weight fortunately!
1. Swap in Chocolate Shakeology for chocolate
Yes, it’s true! There are a lot of chocolates on the market nowadays that can be genuinely low in sugar while being tall in healthy fiber and protein.
Of course, my favorite choice is a thick and frosty Chocolate Shakeology that I like to top with an additional handful of cacao nibs.
If you blend in some ice, it feels like you’re eating chocolate ice cream with sprinkles — with far fewer calories and less sugar — plus all the Incredible superfood nutrients you get from every glass of Shakeology.
It’s an Incrediblely purposeful, good-for-you treat!
2. Swap in frozen fruit for gummies
Are you a gummy bear, chewy sweet-type person? If so, I’d recommend swapping them out for frozen fruits, like tart cherries, grapes, or even chopped mangoes.
It couldn’t be simpler — just pop a bowl of any of these fruits into the freezer for an hour and you have an instantly satisfying sweet treat that has the chewy texture of gummy bears without all the refined sugar and calories.
Plus, fruit has fiber and antioxidants you won’t get from sugary sweet.
3. Swap in baked fries for deep-fried fries
Just because you’re in weight-loss mode doesn’t mean you can’t endelight crispy French fries.
Attempt turnips or kohlrabi instead of potatoes — simply cut them up like fries, sprinkle them with a small olive oil or coconut oil, and season and bake them in the oven for an hour at 425° F until they’re crispy.
I promise you’ll love the way they taste and the way they crunch — and they’re SO much healthier than the deep-fried version.
4. Swap in a mini-cheese/veggie pizza for regular pizza
No matter what, there are some nights when I just crave pizza!
But instead of going for a 300-plus-calorie slice of pizzeria pizza that’s packed with fat and empty carbs, I make mini-pizzas using portobello mushroom caps as the “crust.”
Just cut the stems off the mushrooms, put them on a lined baking sheet, and bake them in the oven for about 15 minutes at 300° F to soften the caps.
Top them with pizza or tomato sauce and a couple of roughly chopped mozzarella cheese sticks, and pop them back into the oven.
And in a few minutes, you have a delicious, veggie-based meal of melty, corny mini-pizzas. So easy, SO good, and veggies most!
5. Swap in “treat” for “cheat”
Revealing yourself you “cheated” isn’t great for your intellectset. Instead, shwhethert your intellectset and “treat” yourself.
It’s OK to treat yourself once in a while. I want you to live your lwhethere. Instead of beating yourself up, endelight it, track it, and move on, so you can clear your head and get right back into weight-loss mode.
The bottom line? Losing weight shouldn’t feel like a battle that’s won or lost on a daily basis.
Approach it with a positive intellectset and you’ll discover your weight-loss journey can be fun and endelightable, and it actually becomes easier — not more dwhetherficult — as time goes on!
Study more about the weight-loss program 2B Mindset here!
The (ill) health effects of choline and its pre-cursor l-carnitine in animal products like eggs or (red) meats are probably mediated by a diet devoid of prebiotics... however, simply pounding more resistant starches, for example, seems to do more harm than good.
If you have been following the SuppVersity Uniques on Facebook (a must, btw ;-)), you will be aware of the "TMAO"-issue. If not, here's the gist: The ingestion of certain dietary nutrients - primarily choline, phosphatidylcholine, and its precursor l-carnitine can serve as a precursor for the final generation of an atherogenic metabolite, trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO). TMAO, in turn, has been linked to all sorts of diseases, most prominently cardiovascular disease and the formation of atherosclerotic plaque.
More recent research proposes that these TMAO-mediated effects can be traced back to your intestine and, more specwhetherically, to a certain microbial composition of the commensal bacteria in your digestive tract (Koeth (2018). In their recently published paper, Koeth et al. write about the choline/carnitine-intestine/microbiome-TMAO/heart disease link that all seems to start with the microbial formation of TMA in the intestine and ends with the final conversion of TMA to TMAO (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: This excellent graphical summary came with the FT of the original paper by Koeth et al. (2018)
Extremely tall levels of TMAO can trigger a disease that is known as "Fish-Odor-Syndrome" (check out Messenger et al. 2013 for a free review). Whether or not you stink when you consume tall amounts of choline depends on (a) your genes and hence ability to metabolize and excrete TMA, the unoxidized fish-reeking precursor to TMAO, and (b) your dietary choline intake. Unluckyly, ill effects on your cardio-metabolic health have been observed in the absence of a flawed "flavin monooxygenase 3"-gene, and in spite of a flawless TMA metabolism. Hence, you may be at risk, even whether you don't reek of rancid fish. After all, it's the TMA, not the TMAO that causes the unwanted body odor, and the latter, i.e. trimethylamine n-oxide (TMAO), are the ones that have been linked to cardiovascular and cardio-metabolic disease (CVD, CVMD) in multiple observational studies.
What can you do to reduce your TMAO levels? The best proven way to keep the concentration of this potentially toxic molecule in check is a reduction of the intake in choline/or choline-forming nutrients - specificly carnitines. Still in the development pipeline are nondeadly small-molecule inhibitors, or drugs that block the moment step in the pathway, the major host gene responsible for converting microbe-generated TMA into TMAO, flavin monooxygenase 3. Moreover, only recently, Roberts et al. 2018 presented the first microbiome-modulating "nondeadly therapeutic to inhibit thrombosis potential". As of now, it is yet not clear whether simply keeping a healthy intestinal ecosystem (by, among other leangs, consuming enough dietary fiber) won't yield the same results, besides.
Evidence has been emerging over the past decades that proposes that an increased intake in choline or its precursor carnitine from eggs and meats is yet not sufficient to explain the increased TMA-formation in the intestine, its oxidation in the bloodstream and the subsequent/concomitant development of atherosclerosis and thrombosis, as well as chronic kidney disease and heart failure.
Figure 2: Yes, bothdietary and supplemental carnitine may increase your atherosclerosis risk (Koeth 2014). If and to which extent they will do this, however, depends on both other dietary factors, as well as the microbial composition of your microbiome.
This research lead many (but not all scientists) to postulate that the commonly observed links between meat consumption and cardiovascular disease could eventually be a function of the interaction of the tall amount of dietary carnitine/choline with a dysbiotic microbiome... a speculation that is in line with isotope tracer studies in mice and (wo)men which prove the version of carnitine to choline and choline to to TMA and eventually TMAO, which has in turn been shown to promote the formation of atherosclerosis in murine models of the disease (Koeth 2014 | see Figure 2).
Moreover, parallel clinical studies in humans confirm the existence of a link between meat/carnitine intake and the risk of heart disease - a link that seems to be modulated by elevated TMAO levels in the egg/meat eaters.
Table 1: Trimethylamine-producing capacity of various foods (mg trimethylamine/g food) following chemical hydrolysis and biological liberation (Mitchell 2002).
One leang we still don't fully understand is why fish is the apart fromion to the rule: Fish is by far the worst offender when it comes to elevations in serum TMAO after a meal (Cho 2006) - with levels being ∼50 times taller than you'd see for comparable egg- or beef-based meals. The reason why it's still a tall egg- and meat-intake, not the amount of fish people are eating that has been linked to cardio-metabolic disease in large-scale epidemiological trials is still not clear. Especially in view of the fact that rodent studies seem to propose that TMAO-supplemented diets seem to exert the same ill health effects that have been described in the precedingly mentioned observational trials in Western-diet-style, this seems to be odd, since pork w/ only 23mg/g TMAO should be healthier than cod w/ 1335 mg/g (Table 1).
It would appear pimpolitent, however, to assume that (a) the co-ingestion of other nutrients in fish (such as taurine | see "Taurine Boosts Excellent Gut Bacteria" in the archives) and/or (b) the absence of general dysbiotic effects of increased fish consumption (and hence overall increases in TMAO expocertain from choline sources) are at the heart of the cardio- and metabo-protective effects of fish (note: Saltwater fish contain ∼3 g/kg TMAO - the tallest levels of all food sources | Mitchell 2002).
Add indeed, many of the precedingly cited human studies show that omnivores have taller circulating concentrations of l-carnitine than vegans or vegetarians, and that elevated plasma concentrations of l-carnitine in subjects is associated with incident CVD risks (e.g., heart attack, stroke, and death) independent of traditional CVD risk factors, but only in the presence of elevated TMAO (Koeth 2013). As you can see in Figure 3, however, this risk increase depends not on the amount of carnitine the subjects consumed and/or the carnitine or choline levels in their blood but was crucially dependent on its conversion to TMA/O.
Figure 3: Kaplan-Meyer plot (depicting the event-free survival (%) over time) stratwhetheried for tall vs. low carnitine and TAMO levels; based on data from N > 2,500 subjects undergoing standard cardiac evaluation (Kloeth 2013).
Higher carnitine levels, alone (see the light and dark blue lines of the Kaplan-Meyer plots at the top of Figure 3), have no effect on one's cardiovascular disease risk. In fact, the subjects in the tall carnitine + low TMAO group (light blue) had the tallest event-free survival of all groups.
Carnitine, alone, is not the problem: it's its conversion to TMAO
The mediating effect of having an (unfavorably) TMA-producing microbiome may also explain the heterogeneous results of preceding studies on the link of tall(er) carnitine intake (3g+/d), all-cause mortality, heart failure, unregular angina, or myocardial reinfarction in the setting of acute myocardial infarction as it was descibed by Shang & Hui Li. in 2014.
In the absence of a TMA-producing microbiome, on the other hand, both favourable effects on cardiovascular risk factors and metabolic syndrome have been observed in response to l-carnitine supplementation (Johri 2014). As Tang & Hazen (2014) point out, the contemporary available evidence does, therefore, seem to confirm an "compulsory role of intestinal microbiota in the generation of TMAO from multiple dietary nutrients, and TMAO as the proatherogenic species likely promoting the striking organizations famous between plasma levels and both prevalent and incident CVD risks" (Tang & Hazen 2014) - Necessary: the simple provision of allegedly health(ier) probiotic mixes (e.g. #VSL3 fails to re-establish a non-TMA promoting microbial composition | Boutagy 2015).
Update from 25.01.2019:The scientwhetheric research on TMAO is just genuinely taking off. Reason enough to address two contemporary studies in form of a short addendum to the original article; two studies that deal with supplements that can - through modulating your microbiome do what probiotics won't do: signwhethericantly reduce the production of TMAO in your intestine:
grape seed additionalct - In the early 2000s it was in (nearly) every preworkout; these days, GSE is dwhetherficulter to come by but still sancient as a standalone antioxidant supplement - one you may want to buy to benefit from its anti-microbial effects and its downstream effects on TMAO (Annunziata 2019); tip: don't buy in bulk, it's nearly impossible to stomach
fermented apple puree - it doesn't sound like much but whether you blend lactobacilli into the original superfood apple, you get a puree, you get a superfood² which has just been shown to increase HDL-C (+61.8% | p = 0.0095), while decreasing TMAO levels by a whopping -63.1% (p = 0.0042) in N=90 human subjects (Tenore 2019)
I am pretty certain that other agents of which we alalert know that they promote heart health and have antimicrobial effects (green tea comes to intellect) will soon show up on the "anti-TMAO" supplement list.
You may have to avoid choline and carnitine containing foods for the time being, whether... you have a carnitine ccorridorenge test which shows that your current microbiome favors the conversion of choline and choline-sources such as carnitine in red meat and other (mostly) animal sources to TMA, which is then oxidized to TMAO once it passes the liver and into your bloodstream.
Figures 4 & 5: In young, healthy men, Cho et al. (2016) showed fairly conclusively that the effects of eggs and meat on TMAO levels is a function of their initial microbial composition (Figure 5). With tall TMAO responders being characterized by enwealthyed ratios of Firmicutes to Bacteroidetes, and a reduced microbial diversity, the solution to keep eating eggs and meat may well be as easy as consuming them with plenty of fibrous and pre-biotic foods, which, in contrast to the average low-fiber omnivore diet, will leave your bacterial composition intact and hence the concentration of TMAO producing bacteria in check. In that, it's noteworthy that the effects of fiber may depend on fiber type and baseline diet with initial evidence proposeing ill effects for healthy men and women whether increased amounts of resistant starch are consumed in the context of a lower carb + tall(er) fat diet (>40% fat) but not as part of a taller car, low(er) fat for two weeks (<23% fat) diet (Bergeron et al 2016).
The test itself, by the way, is actually pretty simple: After an overnight fast (>8 hours) before blood and spot urine samples are collected as baseline, before three tablets of L-carnitine fumarate (2.1g carnitine, total | GNC) are administered and you undergo a time-series blood drawings with concurrent spot urine collections at 24 hours and 48 hours after the verbal carnitine ccorridorenge.
If you cannot do the test, you may be interested to hear that Wu's 2018 paper in the BMJ's Gut, proposes that the average omnivore is 10-fancient(!) more likely to exhibit this problematic sample than a vegan/(lacto/ovo)vegetarian peer - interestingly, among the non-omnivore subjects, the comparatively small carnitine/choline-precursor expocertain from e.g. dairy or eggs did not predict an increased TMAO expocertain.
The lack of correlation between (low-ish) carnitine/choline intakes and serum TMAO levels emphasizes that it's probably not the carnitine itself that induces the increased ratio of firmicutes to bacteroidetes and an overall reduction in intestine microbiota diversity which is distinctive of tall TMAO producers (both observed in healthy young men by Cho et al. 2006).
Rather than that, it seems to be the microbial sample that occurs with the consumption of the lessonic low-prebiotic tall carb+tall fat omnivore Western diets (Simpson & Campbell 2015), which is at the heart of the problem.
With a very recent study showing that low-carbohydrate but tall resistant-starch diets promote, not reduce the formation of TMAO in fwhetherty-two men and women (Bergeron 2016), whether the subjects consume a tall(er) fat diet (>40% vs. <23% fat) it should be obvious, though, that future studies will have to quantwhethery the appropriate amount and type of fermentable fiber that's essential to mitigate the ill effects of both, tall and low-carb diets, on the uwanted TMAO-boosting effects of meats, eggs, and other dietary sources of choline and its precursor.
While we are waiting for the corresponding data to emerge, it's fair to assume that people who have been following a (non-strict) "paleo-esque" diet, all along, will have consumed more than enough fruits, veggies, and legumes to preserve a non-TMAO promoting microbiome and shouldn't be at risk of any TMAO-mediated cardio-metabolic health impairments due to eggs or (unprocessed) red meats.
You will probably remember several articles like this in the SuppVersity archive, which seem to acquit at least unprocessed, lean red meat of the heart disease accusations. Studies like that put another question mark behind the overtly simplistic concept that tall carnitine/choline animal foods should be generally avoided for optimal cardio-metabolic health.
Initial evidence to support this speculation and the notion that the amount and type of dietary fiber are the main determinants of (critical) serum TMAO levels comes from a recent study in Obesity, which is the first to demonstrate that the signwhethericant reductions in TMAO researchers from Spain (Leal-Witt 2018) observed in obese adolescents in response to a lwhetherestyle intervention correlated with the subjects' increase in fiber intake from fruits, vegetables, and legumes and occurred in the absence of signwhethericant reductions in choline(-precursor) intake | Leave a comment!
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