Optimal Health Daily - Fitness and Nutrition

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Episode 3496:

JC Deen picks up where Part 1 left off and gets specific about what to actually do once you are in the gym. He explains why resistance training paired with a caloric deficit is what drives weight loss, and why compound lifts deserve top billing in your routine while isolation work fills in around them.

Read along with the original article(s) here: https://jcdfitness.com/2016/01/best-exercise-to-lose-weight/

Quotes to ponder:

"Weight training, plus a diet that induces fat loss via a caloric deficit is what causes weight and fat loss to happen."

"These movements require more muscle recruitment than single joint exercises."

"If your goal is fat loss, you should place a high priority on weight training as your main mode of exercise."

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Episode 3495:

JC Deen explains why there is no single best exercise for weight loss, and why the answer most people reach for first, lots and lots of cardio, works against them. In Part 1 he lays out the real difference between cardiovascular and resistance training, and shows what excessive cardio does to the muscle you are trying to hold onto.

Read along with the original article(s) here: https://jcdfitness.com/2016/01/best-exercise-to-lose-weight/

Quotes to ponder:

"The best exercise to lose weight is, unfortunately, non-existent because there is no single exercise that contributes to weight loss on its own."

"Excessive cardio training does very little for your skeletal muscle."

"To answer your question simply, resistance training is the best way to exercise if you want to lose weight and keep it off."

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Step Into Calm: Daily Walking Meditations.

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Episode 3494:

Justin Malik shares a bonus episode from Step Into Calm: a ten-minute guided decompression walk of roughly a thousand steps that you can take anywhere, no gym and no plan required. It is a reminder that moving your body is one of the simplest healthy habits available to you, and one of the fastest ways to let stress drain off before it stacks up.

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Episode 3493:

Sydney Evans lays out how closely mental and physical health are wired together, from the way chronic stress wears down your immune system to the link between depression and heart disease. She also covers what sleep and regular movement do for your mind, and why the fitness routine you actually enjoy is one of the simplest healthy habits for both.

Read along with the original article(s) here: https://ellymcguinness.com/blog/mind-body-connection/

Quotes to ponder:

"If your mental health is under stress, your immune response is too."

"Exercising is not only beneficial for getting toned abs or strong legs, but it's also excellent for building a strong mind."

"The saying is true. A healthy body does lead to a healthy mind."

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Episode 3492:

Dr. Neal Malik takes on one of the most persistent questions in fitness: whether working out on an empty stomach in a fasted state actually helps you lose fat and build muscle. He separates what happens to fat during a fasted session from what happens to body fat over the long run, and explains why the two are not the same thing. He also covers who should be careful about training before eating, and how nutrition timing fits into it.

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