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A quick google search will tell you depending on your activity and whether or not you're trying to build or just maintain muscle you need to eat between .5 g of protein per kg of bodyweight (for regular inactive people) and 2g per kg of body weight, if you're a body builder or elite athlete that trains all the time. If you eat a standard North American or Western European diet it is basically impossible for you to be protein deficient, you're getting enough protein, what we're going to talk about in this episode is where your sources of protein should come from to make sure you're eating as healthily as possible.

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Have you ever sat back and taken stock of why you do what you do? Why you get up at the time you do? Why you eat the foods you eat? Why you exercise or don't exercise the way you do? You're beliefs come from your experiences, your memories and most importantly your perception of how they happened, basically you form multiple stories that you tell yourself and they inform the decisions you make and how you live your life, today we're going to go through some examples of stories I personally tell myself and stories we have found that clients sometimes tell themselves and how it informs the decisions they make, if you feel like you're stuck or in a box you need to break out of this is an episode you need to listen to, even if you feel like you're healthy enough, you can apply these principles to any aspect of your life.

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Being Fit and healthy has lots of great benefits, you reduce your chance of many diseases, you become more attractive and you burn more calories in less time, which means you can spend less time actually exercising. I know that's not what you expect to hear, but it's true and it's what we're going to talk about in this episode, so stay tuned so you can become an exercise machine.

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Today I'm going to use myself as an example and go through how I'm re-evaluating my fitness and training situation to make it work for me and I really hope you can pull some lessons out and apply them to apply them to your life. This is probably more personal than I usually like to get, but it's important and I know many of you struggle with the same things.

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You need recovery days to allow your body to heal and recover after very intense workouts. There are several different ways to recover but you're usually trying to do one of the 3 things.

Heat stroke happens when your internal body temperature gets above 40 degrees Celsius or 104 degrees Fahrenheit, this is usually caused by a combination of physical exertion and heat, of course this gets much worse when the sun beats down on you and it's really humid. Fortunately it's actually really hard to get heat stroke because our body has this sort of natural regulating system that forces us to slow down.

Although it's called My Fitness Pal this is definitely a food tracking app, the extent to which you can track your exercise is very general, you can only put in the type of exercise and for how long you did it, that's it.

Depression is a serious mood disorder, some peoplemay even call it an invisible disease, it can happen on a spectrumfrom 'hey, I feel kind of down today' all the way to heavy suicidalthoughts and it's much harder to diagnose than a broken bone orheart disease, where you can look at an x-ray or scan anddefinitively say 'yes, this person has broken a bone or yes, thisperson has heart disease where there are very clear procedures andtreatment patterns to follow.

Today we're going to talk about how you can useexercise and physical activity to help deal with depression and thesymptoms of depression,

As some of you know last week an article about this really ripped woman got shared around on social media, saying that the scale she uses told her she had 33% body fat, when she clearly has a much lower body fat than that because you can see the veins in her abdomen, so is this scale accurate, the short answer is no, so you might ask yourself, do they have any legitimate use? The answer to that question is sure under the right circumstances, in today's episode we're going to dig into why this happened and how you can avoid a misreading like this.

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The Body Fat Scale Article

Today we're going to talk about diets, how they work, why they don't work, why you shouldn't do them and maybe why you should. I know this description makes it sound like we're going to be all over the place and we are, but don't worry it will all make sense by the end of it.

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