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Shed 25% Extra-Fat (1.6kg/12Wk) + Improve Glucose Levels by Adding 2.5h/Wk of Walking to Your/Clients' Fatloss Diet/s

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The amount and quality of food you eat determine how much weight you will lose, the quantity and quality of exercise controls how much of your weight loss is going to come from body fat. One of the biggest mistakes a coach can make is to overwhelm his clients with taxing workouts that ruin their already low "excitement" for getting off the couch altogether. I've previously discussed studies that show: especially in people who still have a ton of weight to lose intense workouts are not necessary to accelerate clients' weight loss and promote fat over lean mass loss. A recent study from the universities of Münster and Bonn (both in Germany) provides additional evidence in favor of the prowess of low-intensity exercise as a weight- and, more importantly, fat loss promoter. If you are more advanced or want to help advanced clients periodize their training! 30% More on the Big Three: Squat, DL, BP! Mix Things Up Periodically to Make Extra-Gains Linear vs...
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It Doesn't Have to be an Exhaustive Workout - Increasing Physical Activity Just as Effective as Strength, Endurance or Combined Exercise to Lose Fat and Build Muscle

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Taking the stairs instead of the elevator, using the bike instead of the car and other means to increase your regular daily physical activity are just as effective as three workouts per week for you or overweight clients who cut their energy intake to lose body weight. What's the reasons your clients' and friends' exercise efforts fail? They are too ambitious. The all-or-nothing approach combined with the expectation that the belly they've build over decades will fade away in weeks is a combination that programs them to fail. Against that background, the results of a recent study from the Technical University of Madrid  are extremely important. After all, the scientists were able to show that a mere increase in daily physical activity is as effective in boosting obese subjects weight loss efforts as "serious" exercise. The aim of the study was simple: To compare the effects of different physical activity programs, in combination with a hypocaloric diet, ...
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Circadian Rhythmicity - Intermittent Fasting (Re-)Sets the Peripheral Clock: Macros, Body & Liver Fat, AMPK & More

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Fridge raiding in the middle of the night is just a side issue in today's installment of the Circadian Rhtythmicity Series that revolves around Intermittent Fasting with different macronutrient ratios and its effects on body weight, body fat, liver fat and the expression of circadian clock genes. Everyone who's also following my posts on facebook will probably be aware that (a) I don't miss a single opportunity to kiddingly refer to scientists and journalists reading this series , whenever I point you towards a new paper or news item about circadian rhythmicity . He (or she) will yet also be aware that (b) one of the studies, I actually postponed to this installment of the series, made the rounds as of late, as the ScienceDaily piece on it - which was basically a "copy & paste job" of the EurekaAlert! press release - gave the impression that a "time-restricted" (others would call it " intermittent fasting ") high fat diet would ...
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