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In Episode 31 we talked about why the fat burning zone is your worst zone to burn fat in from a purely physiological perspective and in today’s episode we’re going to get into the 3 lesser known reasons it’s not the best zone to exercise in and only one of them has anything to do with physiology.

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This is our first ever video podcast. We’ve talked about the different types of contractions and today we’re going to show you how to put them all together. This is important if you’re trying to break through a plateau or looking for something a bit different to add variety into your workouts.

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When most people think about lifting weight, this is the part they usually focus on, the actual lifting part. Doing a concentric contraction means you have to produce more force than the resistance offers to overcome the weight and lift it, doing repetitions of it is what makes you stronger.

If you’ve ever felt alone or like no one cares whether or not you do something you need to listen to this episode.

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A Touch of Inspiration to Change Your Life

Intrinsic goals are goals that we set for internal purposes or intrinsic motivation, like building relationships, developing a personal skill or giving back to a community, for no other reason than to get the warm and fuzzies inside or the sense of accomplishment and pride of doing something challenging that you set out to do.

Extrinsic goals are goals that we set for external purposes or external motivation. Like money, high praise or trophies. They are are often driven by fear of loss or for the external accolades we receive from other people. A perfect example of this in the fitness industry is the before and after picture as a marketing tool.

One of my client’s has a brother and for the sake of this story we’ll call him Mike. Mike is a DJ and he spends most of his time working in clubs, restaurants and doing special events which usually go late into the night. He’s been doing this for over 20 years and has very much adapted to this lifestyle. For the last few years Mike has been getting increasingly more tired, he no longer has as much energy for his gigs and then for some reason he can’t sleep as well even though he’s tired at the end of the night. He attribute’s this to the fact that he’s getting older, he’s in his early 50’s after all and maybe all these late nights are starting to catch up with him.

I’m not 100% sure where this came from or what research study was cited as the original to say this, but the theory goes like this, eating carbohydrates aka. sugar causes your insulin to go up and if your glycogen stores are full, which they are all the time in most people, excluding very athletic individuals, then this gets stored as fat on your body. The theory is this, if you go to bed after consuming these sugars, then you go to bed with high blood sugar which means your body is much more likely to store it as fat because you’re not moving.

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To talk about each of these strategies we need to start with a story about Beth. Beth is of course a fictional character but if you’re like most people you at least recognize some aspects of her life in your own. So here are some strategies that you can use in this situation that you might find helpful.

Once you've decided that there is a personal trainer or strength coach that you would like to work with based on education, experience, personality and all the other things we talked about in yesterday’s episode, then you should look for this type of process to decide whether or not they're a good trainer for you.

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