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It's Q & A Thursday's and our question is in from Charlie who asks - Sometimes I get dizzy when I workout, should I be concerned? Charlie this is a good question and this happens more often than people realize so let's get to the bottom of this today.

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Back in Episode 42 we covered why it's important for you to keep your blood sugar down and how exercising right after you eat can help. It's one of our more informative episode's and I had a lot of fun recording it. It's a good compliment to this episode, if you're new to the show or haven't listened to that episode yet, you should go back and listen to it because it will give you a more rounded picture of what we're talking about today.

Here's the rundown of what insulin sensitivity is. Your body runs on two sources of energy carbohydrates and fats, both go directly into your blood after you've eaten them and if your body doesn't need them right away they get stored for later, fat gets stored in your body as fat and carbohydrates get stored as glycogen in your muscles and liver, when those glycogen stores get full your body shifts carbohydrate storage to fat, instead. We're focusing on insulin sensitivity today, which means we're focusing mostly on carbohydrates.

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A lot of people feel it - the want or the need to change, but as easy it as it is to recognize that need to change most people don't know or understand how to make it. That's why today, we're talking about the three steps you need to take when it comes to making those changes a reality.

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If you listen to this show, I think it's safe to say that you probably work really hard to fit exercise into your everyday lives and live a healthier lifestyle. Summer is coming, and that may mean one, two, three or even four week vacations at a time. Unfortunately, over the course of a vacation, if you stop exercising and being active, you can lose all of the gains you worked so hard to get over those winter months. So, take off your flip flops and put on your running shoes because today we are going to talk about how you can fit exercise into your vacation, because nothing sucks more than starting over again at square one.

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This episode is for anyone that is continually trying to lift more, but occasionally get's caught up in the 'I need to lift more and more cycle - this episode raises awareness about why that type of overexerting behaviour can be problematic. So buckle down and hear me out - when it comes to getting bigger and stronger, your ego can be inherently damaging.

Our question is in today from Debbie who asks: What does Fitness For Freedom mean? This is a great question and one we used to get all the time when we first started out, today we're going to dig a little deeper and tell you not only what it means, but what we stand for.

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You can't argue the importance of a good night's sleep, but still a lot of people aren't getting the necessary Z's, so here are some strategies to help you get a better sleep every night of the week.

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Today were going to talk about what blood pressure is, why high blood pressure is so dangerous and what you can do to lower yours. Even if you don't have high blood pressure you should listen to this because maybe, just maybe you can help someone else that does.

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Blaine is a client of mine of course that's not his really name, but I've featured him on the podcast and in our blog before and he recognizes himself immediately in the stories so his self-awareness is really high, which is important when you're trying to get good results out of an exercise program. Most people have much lower self-awareness about their training and think they're exercising much harder than they actually are, which is too bad because that often leads to frustration when they don't see the results they're looking for, which often leads to giving up. Today we're giving you the work around for that!

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We spend a lot of time talking about goal setting and I tend to focus on intrinsic goals a lot because at the end of the day if you want to make long-term change stick you really need to be motivated internally with an intense desire to improve, for yourself, the problem with focusing only on internal motivation and setting internal goals is that sometimes you end up misguided, misguided might be the wrong word, but moving without direction or making decisions and losing sight of the whole big picture of your life, today I want to talk about how you can use extrinsic goals to guide you and help keep a bit of that required fire underneath you.

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