Category: Exercise

The Must-Have Supplement for Post-Workout Recovery

We all know that exercising is great for our overall health and well-being. Regular physical activity helps to keep us fit, active, and helps us maintain healthy body weight.

However, exercising on a regular basis can also take a toll on our bodies.

While it’s true that exercise is an excellent way to build and maintain muscle mass, it also places a significant strain on our muscles and other body tissues. Because of this, people that work out regularly need to ensure that their body is nourished well so that it can fully recover.

In this blog post, we’ll discuss why a supplement that is necessary for those who exercise regularly and how it can help your body to recover from a cellular level after a workout.

The Link Between Exercise and Amino Acids

Amino acids are the building blocks of protein, and protein is essential for healthy muscle growth and repair. When we exercise, we create tiny tears in our muscle fibers that need to be repaired.

Amino acids are critical to this process, as they are the ones that help to rebuild and repair our muscles after a workout.

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How To Keep Up Your Exercise During The Fall Months

The fall season brings along with it beautiful scenery with the changing colors of the leaves out in nature, but with this also comes cooler temperatures and less daylight hours.

A byproduct of the cooler temperatures and less daylight is less exercise as well, as the motivation to get up and move goes down when the conditions aren’t anywhere near as comfortable as they were a month or two ago.

Still, the importance of staying committed to getting some exercise in each day can’t be understated,

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Amino Acids & Workout Recovery: A Match Made in Heaven

As Tommy Boone, Ph.D. board-certified exercise physiologist, says, “tiny tears form in the muscles [when you exercise] that help them grow bigger and stronger as they heal.” Since exercise creates tiny tears in muscles, it makes sense that preventing muscle damage and starting the muscle recovery process should be a high priority for exercisers everywhere.

Muscle-Related Benefits of Amino Acids

Healthline identifies four muscle-related benefits of amino acids:

  1. Increase Muscle Growth
    1. “… leucine [an essential amino acid] activates a certain pathway in the body that stimulates muscle protein synthesis,

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The Truths We Can’t Seem To Rectify: Inactivity Leads to Physical, Emotional, Mental, & Financial Pain

2009CRCHealth.com reports that nearly 25% of U.S. adults know inactivity is a massive problem for children.2012DiabtetesInControl.com reminds readers that 2000 began with over 60% of American adults failing to be regularly physically active, and a quarter of them not exercising at all.2017USAToday.com releases an article entitled Kids’ inactivity rises, creating ‘health care time bomb.’2018ScienceDaily.com releases a report that compares lifestyles throughout 49 countries from 6 continents. They discover that, overall, children around the world are not physically active enough to maintain healthy growth and development. … Continued

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Exercise may help eliminate postpartum depression

Canadian researchers recently published a study in Obstetrics & Gynecology showing that exercise can help reduce postpartum depression symptoms.

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How running can heal the brain

Canadian researchers recently published in Cell Reports a study showing that they discovered a molecule that can repair some types of brain damage. The molecule is triggered by running.

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Does exercise help depression?

Looking for a natural way to reduce symptoms of your depression? Have you tried exercise?

Researchers at the Boston University School of Medicine published in The Primary Care Companion – Journal of Clinical Psychiatry an analysis of a vast amount of research exploring the connection between exercise and mental health over the last century.

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3 key areas for springing into better mental health

The first official day of spring is just behind us. Combined with the recent Easter weekend, now seems to be a prefect time to meditate on the things we’re thankful for and renew our commitment to good health.

Our health affects our mood, and focusing on 3 key areas can make a big difference in our mental health.

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Physical activity lowers depression and anxiety

Australian researchers recently published an article in The Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness, showing a connection between physical activity levels and depression.

Researchers studied 109 participants who had been treated for depression, anxiety, or both and had been referred to a lifestyle intervention program. Each participant completed the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale and the Active Australia Survey, and researchers compared their fitness scores with those of the general population.

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