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What is training specificity and how does it impact your workout? Find out how understanding the principle of training specificity can help you reach your fitness goals more quickly.
Fats, carbohydrates and proteins – your body can use them all to produce energy to fuel muscle contraction. How does it know which one to choose? Find out more about fuel usage during exercise – when your body uses carbs and when it turns more to fats – and what factors influence it.
Are your fitness goals conflicting? Are you unknowingly making it harder to meet your goals by the type of exercise you’re doing? If you’re trying to build lean body mass, doing extra long periods of steady-state cardio may be sending the wrong signals to your muscles and making it difficult for them to grow. Find out why.
