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Welcome ... My name is Kat Eden and I am a Personal Trainer and Health/Performance Coach from Australia |
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Read time: 90 seconds
Let’s talk about exercise. Ideal exercise, I mean, not long grinding workouts that do more harm than good and leave you beating your head against the wall because you can never quite keep up. We now know that chronic cardio fits into this category, and we know that weight training is important [...]
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Last week I spoke about the connection between excessive amounts of cardio exercise and carbohydrate ‘addiction’, and how these two behaviours more often than not lead to dietary and fat loss failure. As far as generalisations go, this is one that I’m quite happy to put my name to. I base this [...]
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About 10 years ago, I was the queen of ‘healthy carbohydrates’. Typically I’d start my day with a wholesome bowl of bircher muesli, usually with some plain or vanilla low-fat yogurt, and a good heaping of fruit on top. Yummy. And a coffee of course! Mind you, it’s not as though I [...]
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It may surprise you to learn that even after 11 years as a health & fitness professional I still battle with my sugar addiction. Maybe not daily, but I’d say at least weekly. Old habits die hard, and considering that many experts believe sugar to be 10x more addictive then heroin, this [...]
Today’s post is a guest post from strength coach Charles Poliquin, and was originally featured in the ‘Ask Charles’ section of his website. The post addresses the realities of using cardio exercise as part of a fat loss regime.
Q: I am thinking of adding cardio-vascular training to my strength training to help me drop [...]
You know how I’m always talking about cardio as one of the greatest evils of the exercise world? The fact that most of what the health industry teaches on the matter is absolute rubbish, that many experts believe it’s a complete waste of time, that it can exacerbate stress and cause you to store fat [...]
